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VIDEO CASE STUDY |
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BRIDGET TAYLOR English Teacher, McClymonds High School |
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I was interested in the grant because I saw an opportunity to get new equipment and technologies into my classroom – and actually have a chance to be trained on it. And be able to bring what I learned into the class and have an opportunity to develop new and interesting curriculum dealing with technology and integrating technology into English – and Powerpoint, Microsoft Office, Word, all that - Internet, everything. |
Some of the changes that have happened in my classroom since I became a part of the grant is – I have computers in my classroom which I did not have forever!
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It’s made teaching a lot easier – and it’s been a lot more fun for my students!
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Writing
The Alpha Smarts are a wonderful little invention. It’s the next best thing to having a laptop. It’s a small keyboard and it has a screen on it where students can see what they’re typing – about four lines of what they’re typing at a time. And they’re able to take notes or write out questions or a number of things. Once they have all the information that they are going to input for the day in there, they then can either print it out through an infrared beam. They aim it at the printer and a document will come out or they can print it out on the computer. There’s a beam where they can aim the Alpha Smart there or they can actually plug the Alpha Smarts into the computer and it will come up on Word.
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Digital Journals They’re each assigned a number so they’re responsible for their particular Alpha Smart and they’ve taking very good care of them. I haven’t seen anything broken or dropped – thank goodness. So it’s really kind of nice. The students – they’ve done several papers on them. It’s inspired students to become digital technicians and start the digital journal – video journalism project here – so they’re doing a lot.
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Powerpoint Presentations - Images and Sounds
I enjoy using Powerpoint. I enjoy Powerpoint because you can bring in pictures from anywhere and do anything with it. You can put sounds to it and you can make it interesting. You know it’s not quite like using an easel chart or using a chalkboard and we have the monitors and VCRs that also were given to us for the grant and the monitor connects down to the computer so our Powerpoint presentation can come up on the screen – which is very nice.
Collaboration with Partner - Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
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Video Documentary – King Papers Project Earlier in the year, my students and I went on a 10-day trip touring the deep south and it had a lot to do with the King Papers Project because we followed the path of the Civil Rights Movement and a lot of what Dr. King did and a lot of other important figures in that movement. The students used the digital equipment to film all the places we went and take photos of every place we went. And they put together a video documentary. It was a short one because it was used as a presentation at the district office.
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Digital Video They learned how to take the pictures off of the digital camera and put the still pictures on the computer and incorporate still pictures into the moving video – and incorporate words and music and sound. So they’re growing and they are planning to come back and actually lead a group of students who did not go through the summer training and teach them the process so they can have a complete class.
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Bridget Taylor Urban Dreams English Teacher
"I would love to take my kids on another tour following Dr. King’s movement and those sorts of things. I think that if they were to expand the grant or do something different or re-write for it, I would suggest that we write in for fieldtrips of that nature. It’s very expensive, but if so many students from each of the high schools were able to go, they could come back and teach the other students and they could use the technology that’s been put into the school to really make that trip come to life for those students who did not go."
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