The following slides showcase some great examples of digital art created by Mr. McCauley’s digital art class at Frontier K8. Adobe Photoshop is the predominant tool used for creating these pieces. (All subjects in pictures have signed the district’s media release form.)
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Nov
13
2008
Memoir of introducing new technology into schoolsPosted by: kmriebau in Advice Column, Observations
Logistical: “Be Prepared” Community Building and Sharing
Oct
08
2008
2 Short Examples of Interactive White Board Use in the ClassroomPosted by: kmriebau in Instructional Strategies, ObservationsThough work being done to integrate this technology into our classrooms is mostly in its infancy, it’s great to see what is happening now with teachers literally having this technology anywhere between weeks to a couple months. What is even more exciting is to imagine where this will take us into the future! Enjoy the vid! Here are some good examples of Hinkley HS teachers creating and manipulating flip charts for their lesson using Promethean’s Activstudio software on an Activboard. For those of you who don’t have ActivStudio software, I have included a .zip folder that has a file for loading the free flip chart viewer onto your computer so you can interact a bit with the flipcharts. Note: I have also included flip charts presented in powerpoint (.ppt) should you not be able to access the flipcharts (.flp). You will not be able to use any of the interactive items, but you can see what the gist is. Nice work teachers! Enjoy! Get the free flip chart viewer here ActivStudio versions Powerpoint versions These are the words Ivan and I heard in a classroom at Hinkley High, enthusiastically - and definitely not sarcastically (which can be typical of cynical teenagers), blurted out by a student when we briefly showed her and her peers a piece of new technology that would be used in their classroom soon. I felt like this simple statement, and how she said it, may have summed up the feeling and the mood spreading across the school, and trickling into the school district - a feeling that with the proliferation of new 21st century learning tools in our classrooms, that there is exciting potential to learn in new and hopefully better ways, and that it’s not just the schools in a wealthy suburb that are utilizing all of the high-tech tools anymore, but that the resources are being made available to all. Is there a sense of equity? Maybe, maybe not, but the truth is… the kids are observing that we are making a commitment to them to provide them with the means to take their education to the next level, and in turn, they may actually find themselves a little bit more excited to come to school each day and find enjoyment in learning about the world around them because now we have useful tools to bring the world to them! |
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