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Title High School Election Headquarters
Description: Collaborative project between the Social Studies and Technology Departments to assist teachers as they help their students become informed as they learn about election issues.
Schools/Teams- Parish Wide/ Contacts: Ellen Lyon and Alexis Western
Grade Level: PK - 12
GLEs: Varies by grade level
Technology: Visit our wikis for an assortment of election activities designed to inform and educate students.
Visit the Jefferson Parish Social Studies website for a Voter registraion video with worksheets.
Milestones
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Description
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Grade Level
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Technology Equipment Used
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Title: What in the World Has Gone On?
Description
Students will work in groups to research historical events. The students may choose any day out of the year. They may even choose to research their own birth dates. The students will collaborate and share information by using Google Docs. The students will also create a web-cast or a PowerPoint slide detailing any historical or eventful information that occurred on that date or their birth date. This may be recorded to share as a presentation as a "getting to know" project or as a social studies current event "past/present" project.
Schools/Teams Chateau Estates Elementary School
  • Team Leader, Sedoural Brown
  • School Leader, Stephanie Durant
Grade Level Fourth Grade
GLEs: ELA-7-E1, ELA-7-E4, ELA-2-E1, ELA-2-E3, ELA-4-E7, ELA-5-E2, ELA-5-E3, ELA-5-E6
Technology Equipment Needed
School Based Computers, Google Docs, MS Office PowerPoint, Web Cams, Headsets with microphones, Timeliner Software, and Website onthisdayinhistory.org which is a free download provided by the History Channel.
Milestones
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Title: Every Vote Counts!
Description
Students will participate in a classroom mock election pre-vote (prior to October Mock Election) and retain results for later comparison. Students will work in groups to research historical presidencies and current presidential candidates. The students could use their research to brainstorm facts vs fiction and post to a WIKI. The students would discuss the political process and particular election terminology ie., electoral process and post their thoughts. Students will participate in October mock election as a re-vote of earlier election and then post final results to their WIKI and open for discussion of any changes in results and theoretical reasoning. Alternatively, students would collaborate in groups and compare current presidential candidates in specific weekly areas, posted to their WIKI and open for discussion.
Schools/Teams Chateau Estates Elementary School
  • Team Leader, Sedoural Brown
  • School Leader, Bonnie Cannon
  • Teachers, Judy Migliore and Mary Eshneour
Grade Level Fourth and Fifth Grade
GLEs: ELA-7-M1, ELA-7-M2, ELA-7-M3, ELA-7-M4, ELA-2-M1, ELA-4-M6, ELA-5-M3
Technology Equipment Needed
  • School-Based Computers, WIKI, Google Docs, XTimeline.
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title: Shape Up or Shape Out
Description
Students will explore their surroundings searching for shapes. Surroundings could be home, school, neighborhoods or even still pictures found in magazines. The class will then compare findings by discussing the outcome. Flip videos will be used to record the search and played back for the whole class or smaller group to determine if they too can find the same number and types of shapes. Once the shapes have been located a class graph can be made to chart the number of shapes and the different types of shapes found. Students may draw pictures to illustrate their findings and post to a blog. Vodcasts can be created to share with other classes and family in their exploration of shapes.
Schools/Teams
Washington Montessori Elementary School
  • Team Leader, Sedoural Brown
  • School Leader, TBA
Grade Level Kindergarten to Second Grade
GLEs: ELA-4-E3, ELA-4-E2, ELA-4-E5, ELA-4-E6, ELA-5-E4
Technology Equipment Needed
  • Flip Video Cameras, Blogger, School-Based Computers
Milestones
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Title: Adopt an Exhibit - Louisiana State Museum - Louisiana Carnival
Description Adopt an Exhibit – LA State Museum - Louisiana Carnival
  • Students work in teams to create podcasts that will be used by the museum for audio tours and posted on the museum website
  • Students do research, possibly meet artists, visit museum and meet with museum staff
  • Additional student team responsible for documenting the project using: video, photos, podcasts, interviews, blogs

Technology used: podcast, blogging, digital media and movie making, collaboration using wiki and/or ning

Products To Be Created:

  • podcasts, 200 words, approximately 1 1/2 minutes each
  • documentary movie
  • written description for each selected object, including team photo
  • possibly also blogs
Schools/Teams
Grade Level 8th Grade
GLEs ELA 5,18 33,40-45 Social Studies 10,81
Technology Equipment Needed
  • iPOD with recorder
  • Flip video camera and tripod
  • Digital Camera
  • School-based computers
Milestones
  • Oct 17 9:30-1:00 LA State Museum field trip
  • Dec 18 podcast scripts to LA State Museum for review
  • January 12 LA State Museum Opening, field trip to museum
  • More detailed schedule on the Harris wiki below
Additional Documents
Title: Adopt an Exhibit - Clancy Collection
Description Adopt an Exhibit – Ogden Museum of Southern Art
  • Students work in teams to create podcasts that will be used by the museum for audio tours and posted on the museum website
  • Students do research, possibly meet artists, visit museum and meet with museum staff
  • Additional student team responsible for documenting the project using: video, photos, podcasts, interviews, blogs
  • 10 artworks by African American artists will be selected. An exhibit using the podcasts will target the Martin Luther King holiday in January
Products To Be Created:
  • podcasts, 200 words, approximately 1 1/2 minutes each
  • documentary movie
  • written description for each selected artwork, including team photo
  • possibly also blogs
Schools/Teams
Grade Level Fifth Grade
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed

Podcast, blogging, digital media and movie making, collaboration using wiki and/or ning
Equipment needed:
  • ipods and recorders for remote interviews and recording
  • school-based computers with headset and microphone for recording podcasts
  • digital camera
  • video camera
Milestones
  • Nov 5 Ogden 10:00-12:45 5th grade field trip to Ogden to see artwork, interview artists, docents, museum staff
  • Nov 21 - Jan 7 Paola maternity leave
  • TBD Clancey podcast scripts due to Kate Barron. If possible team will meet at Clancey to review.
  • TBD - Feb 7th? Ogden Exhibit Opening Gala, 4th grade and 5th grade field trip
Additional Documents
Title: Ogden Museum/Artists and Sense of Place at Lincoln Elementary - Documentary Project
Description Ogden Museum/Artists and Sense of Place at Lincoln Elementary - Documentary Project
  • Students work in teams to document the artist in residence program using video and digital photography
  • Students create podcasts about their own artwork
  • Students do research about the school history, including "Walker Town" to include in the video
  • Students interview the artist to create her biography
Schools/Teams
Kim Pazon, Principal on Assignment, kim.pazon@jppss.k12.la.us
Fannie Brown, fannie.brown@jppss.k12.la.us
Grade Level Fifth Grade
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed

Podcast, blogging, digital media and movie making, collaboration using wiki and/or ning
Equipment needed:
  • ipods and recorders for remote interviews and recording
  • school-based computers with headset and microphone for recording podcasts
  • digital camera
  • video camera and tripod
Milestones
  • Artist workshops at Lincoln 9/30, 10/2, 10/7, 10/9, 10/14, 10/16
  • 10:10 2nd grade, 11:10 3rd grade, 1:40 4th and 5th grade
  • Exhibit at Museum week of 11/3
  • Filming 9/30 thru 11/3
  • Documentary completion - TBD
Additional Documents
GPS - Historical Tour of the French Quarter
Description Cooperative groups will use GPS units to tour specific, historical destinations of the French Quarter. Students will take pictures and record the required information at each mark. Finally, cooperative groups will create a PhotoStory based on their findings to be uploaded onto the school's website or teacher's blog.
Technology used: digital photography, PhotoStory 3, website or blog
Equipment needed:
  • GPS units
  • Digital cameras
  • School-based computers
Schools/Teams
  • Tracie Spicuzza, Technology Integration Specialist
  • School Team Leaders: TBD

Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
Milestones
Additional Documents
21st Century Reading
Description
  • Students work in teams to select reading assignments and do research, blogging, use Skype to collaborate, create a movie
Schools/Teams
  • TBD - possibly Riverdale Middle and Ellender Middle
  • School Team Leaders: TBD
Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
  • Webcams
  • school-based computers
  • digital camera and/or video camera
Milestones
Additional Documents
Literary Circle
Description
  • Students work in teams to read the chapter book, Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl. They will create technology integrated projects, contribute to a blog, and use Skype to collaborate via webcams.
Schools/Teams
  • Nicole Brondum, Technology Integration Specialist and Tracie Spicuzza, Technology Integration Specialist
  • Pitre Elementary and Bridgedale Elementary
  • School Team Leaders: Betty Roberts, Professional Development Resource Teacher and Lana Andrews, Professional Development Resource Teacher
Grade Level- 3rd
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
  • Webcams
  • school-based computers
  • digital camera
Milestones
Additional Documents
ePALS
Description
  • ePALS is a collaborative tool teachers can use to pair their classrooms with others across the state, country, or the world. This is a secure site that gives the teacher complete control over what comes into and goes out of his or her ePALS email or ePALS blog.
  • Students can collaborate on a variety of projects already begun on ePALS, or teachers can create lessons and seek partners without worrying about privacty and safety.
  • Teachers, parents, and students can also share ideas and find answers to a variety of questions on the forums provided through ePALS.
  • in2books is a Title I funded program and increases literacy skills. Books are provided to students and adult pen pals. ePALS provides support and lesson plans.
Schools/Teams
  • TBD
  • Team Leader: Elizabeth Towe
  • School Team Leaders: TBD
Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed

Texting, Voice, and/or Video through Skype, blogging and email.
Other needs vary according to the collaboration and lesson plans teachers select.

Equipment needed: Internet at a minimum. Enhancements: webcams, flipvideos, digital cameras
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title: Problem Solving (Project Euler)
Description Students solve mathematical problems through collaboration
  • Teacher/Students go to Project Euler website (http://projecteuler.net) to receive challenging mathematical/computer programming problems
  • Students collaborate and use mathematics and computer and programming skills to solve problems
Schools/Teams

Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
  • Wiki or Google Docs
  • School-based computers with internet access
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title: Planetfesto Ribbon
Description an internet ribbon where contributors pledge "to change at least one small thing in their life to help reverse the downward spiral of our earth."
  • Website (planetfesto.org) gives contributors some ideas
  • Incudes lesson plan for teachers, including practice sheet
  • Steps: Students will

1. Download a picture on website, draw a picture (Student/teacher will take a picture of the drawing), or use a picture of their own.
2. Write why they love the planet and what they will personally do to protect the planet
3. Provide 1st name or initials, country, school name, etc.
Schools/Teams

Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
  • planetfesto.org
  • School-based computers with internet access
  • digital cameras
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title: Voice Thread State Exchange
Description
Elementary students learn many interesting facts about the 50 states and post information about Louisiana (i.e. which region state is located in, state birds, motto etc., national landmarks, etc.)
Schools/Teams

Grade Level K-8
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
  • School-based computers with internet access
  • microphones
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title: Interactive Media Community Service Project
Description
Students and teachers identify either school or community service projects. Classes should be broken into small groups, each with different topics. Some examples of projects might be: o River pollution o Fighting terrorism at home o Recycling o Teen drinking o Homelessness o School violence o Dating issues o Or any topic determined by the teacher · Each group should have its own blog page for discussion of ideas and formulating plans and production. · When groups are ready to begin formal product, use Google Docs to compose project outline, written summary, and letterhead/logo on MS Word. Google Docs can also be used to create a PowerPoint presentation. · Other products could include: o Brochure o Newspaper Ads o Storyboard
Schools/Teams
Grade Level High or Middle
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
  • Web 2.0 Tools: Blogging, Google Docs
  • Classroom-based computer with MS Office and internet access
Milestones
  • TBA
Additional Documents
Title: Student News Podcasts
Description Students discuss class/city/national/world news to be included in their podcasts. They will then be assigned the job responsibilities of writers, editors, announcers, and technical directors. These job responsibilities can be rotated. Podcasts will be recorded using the program Audacity. These podcasts will then be published to the teacher’s blog and shared with parents.
Schools/Teams
Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
  • Audacity, blog, podcasting
  • Microphone
  • school-based computers
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title Cultural Blogging and Podcasts
Description
  • Students can research different cultural festivals and celebrations throughout the world.
  • Students will then blog about the celebration they found most interesting, and respont to others' blogs.
  • Students will then create podcasts on their favorite celebration or festival.
Schools/Teams

Grade Level 9th Grade World Geography
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
  • school-based computers with internet access
  • microphones
Milestones-TBA
Additional Documents
Title Student Council Vodcasts
Description
  • Students will record homecoming events using a flip camera.
  • Students will create a vodcast of the events that will then be put on the school's website.
  • The project will be ongoing and students will record different events (Christmas toy drive, Student Council breakfast, banner making, field trips, meetings, and fundraisers). At the end of the year all clips will be put together with Movie Maker and shown the following year as an advertisement to join Student Council.
Schools/Teams
  • Possibly West Jeff/ CHris Totaro or Bonnabel/Phyllis Mandel
Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
  • Flip video camera
  • microphone
  • school-based computer
  • MovieMaker
Milestones
  • October 10
Additional Documents
Title Accellerated Reader Podcasts
Description-
  • Students will read AR books.
  • Stuednts will write a paragraph on the book and tell why they enjoyed the book.
  • Students will then record a podcast of their paragraph.
  • Podcasts will then be placed on the teacher's Eboard for parents to view.
Schools/Teams
Grade Level 3rd Grade Reading
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title: Habitats
Description
Students will work collaboratively with students from another class or from a different school to research animal habitats. Most of the collaboration will occur on a wiki. The schools will coordinate a field trip to the zoo, aquarium or other natural wild life place. The students will meet their partners and gather more information for their research. The students can make still or moving pictures while on the field trip. The end product will be a collaborative report including pictures and perhaps videos. (Presentation style – power point or movie maker)
Schools/Teams
Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
  • school-based computers
  • PowerPoint
  • Windows MovieMaker
  • Digital Cameras
  • Video Cameras
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title: Buy My Product - Commercials Created by Students
Description
The students will work in teams to create a commercial to sell a product. They will incorporate factual information about the product and sales techniques. Their commercials will be posted to a blog. Other students on the grade level or in the school will be invited to view the commercials, vote on which item they would buy, and tell why they would buy the item. A rubric would be created to help guide the voters on the important qualities.
Schools/Teams
Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
  • school-based computers
  • Windows MovieMaker
  • Digital Cameras
  • Video Cameras
  • Blog
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title: Breaking News
Description
Students will create weekly, bi-monthly or monthly reports explaining what happened in school. The reports will be captured using a video device and posted on the web using e-board or a blog.
Technology / equipment used:
  • Computers
  • Video Cameras
  • Blog or E-Board
Schools/Teams
Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
  • school-based computers
  • video cameras
  • blog or e-board
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title Project Sky Math
Description
  • Student will explore and learn about change through measurement, representation, analysis, and prediction
  • Student will regularly read and record temperatures
  • Student will represent their temperature date by constructing tables, bar graphs, line graphs, and maps.
  • Student will use computers to collect temperature data, create and analyze spreadsheet tables and graphs
  • Estimate and calculate measures of central tendency, average (mean, median, mode)
  • Use data to compare Celsius and Fahrenheit scales
  • Use Blogs and Vodcast to reflect and record their experience.
Schools/Teams
  • School Leaders: Vickie Spell, Pitman Elementary School and Jane Comeaux, Solis Elementary School
  • Team Leaders: Debra Coleman, debra.coleman@jppss.k12.la.us and TBA
Grade Level 4th and 5th Grade
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
  • Blogger, podcast, Google Docs
  • school-based computers
  • microphone
  • webcam
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title: Flat Stanley
Description: Student will make a “Flat Stanley” and begin his story on a wiki. The “Flat Stanleys” will be mailed to other participating classes. The participating class will keep the “Flat Stanleys” for 1 week. They should take pictures during the visit and add to his adventure on the wiki. At the end of Flat Stanley's visit we will conduct a skype conference in order to learn about the area he visited. The “Flat Stanleys” will then be mailed to another participating class and the process will continue.
Schools/Teams:
  • Andrea Romano, Maggiore Elementary 1st grade
  • School Team Leaders: Heidi Wilson, Technology Integration Specialist, heidi.wilson@jppss.k12.la.us

    Grade Level: 1st grade

     
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title: Biology Dissection Project
Description: Students will research dissections by going to online virtual dissection Websites. In small groups, students will script the dissection of their assigned organism (frog, crawfish, perch,… ) covering the digestive, respiratory, and reproductive systems for each organism. Then students will video their dissections. (Videos could be edited if there's time.) These videos will be published to the class blog and will become vodcasts which can be used as tutorials for the rest of the class.
Schools/Teams:
Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
  • Virtual Dissection websites, class blog, Windows MovieMaker
  • school-based computers
  • Flip video cameras
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title: Foreign Language Collaboration Project
Description: Foreign Language teachers will set up collaborative blogs with epals so students can have cultural exchanges and communicate with native speakers from another country. Included on the blog will be podcasts as well as a video tour of their city’s highlights. The project will also include videoconferencing either with Skype or the Polycom equipment.
Schools/Teams:
Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
  • ePALS, Blog, podcast, vodcast, videoconferencing (Skype or Polycom)
  • school-based computers
  • Flip video cameras
  • microphones
  • Webcam or Polycom
  • Flash drives
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title: Script Writing in a Wiki
Description: Students and teachers connect to other classrooms to collaboratively create a 2-act play. Classess may be in the same school, district, state, or country. Connections may be made via ePals if desired. In groups, students select topics for plays that relate to subject matter approved by teacher(s). Possible topics include: "remake" of an important historical or scientific event, a "point of view" play taking the same event but showing differing reactions of diverse groups, an "empathy" play where students write a role-play of some difficult social situation with possible results, a "day in the life" showing similarities and/or differences in the day of students from sifferent social/religious, economical/cultrual backgrounds, topical or current events, etc.
Once script is done, students perform via Skype for one another. Students edit and produce videos and post the finished product on the school blog or website.
Schools/Teams:
Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
  • Web 2.0 Tools: Wiki, Blog, Webcast, Skype
  • school-based computer with internet access
  • Webcam with audio
  • MovieMaker
  • Video camera
Milestones: TBA
Additional Documents
Community Helpers
Description This four week project will encompass two special education classrooms at Matas and Clancy Elementary schools. The students will be learning about community helpers. They will create thinking maps, learn community helper songs, watch videos, and do art projects for a week. At the end of each week the students will Skype with either a fireman, policeman, librarian, or nurse. During these Skype sessions the class will sing the community helper a song and each student will ask the community helper a question about his or her job . Each student will then record what they have learned using a Flip Video camera and this will be complied into a video by the teacher using Movie Maker. After each class learns about a community helper they will then contact the other class via Skype. They will share their video with the other class and will tell each other what they have learned about their community helper.
Schools/Teams:
Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
  • school-based computers with internet access
  • Webcam with audio
  • MovieMaker
  • Flip video camera
Milestones
Additional Documents
Kindergarten Video Conference Project
Description This videoconference project is based upon the National Education Association’s (NEA) annual Read Across America program. Background information on this program can be located at, http://www.nea.org/readacross/background.html. Students will create a language arts project based on a book by Dr. Seuss. They will then present their project and exchange cultural information about their state with another classroom via video conference. Projects may include skits, raps, songs, plays, and books created by the children. To participate in the video conference the students will take a field trip to Grace King High School to use their equipment. The video conference will be followed up by a trip to Barnes and Noble where they will be read a Dr. Seuss story and create a craft.
Schools/Teams
Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
  • video conferencing equipment
  • Flip video camera
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title: Cultural Connections
Description
Partnership between 21S and Cisco Networking Academy to create a student engagement and outreach program between schools, focused on using local culture, food, cultural events, holidays, and Web 2.0 technologies to teach global awareness, presentation skills, and core subjects to middle and high school students.
  • Initially create pilot program between JPPSS, MS district (TBD), NYC Global Ed Engagement - ???, Africa - ???
  • School teams research topics and give presentations to other teams using Skype
  • Online collaboration using social networking, blogging
Schools/Teams
  • TBD -
  • School Team Leaders: TBD
  • Cisco: Beth Bellemore
Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
Skype, blogging, collaboration using wiki and/or ning
Equipment needed:
  • Webcams
  • school-based computers
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title: WWII Partnership - TBD
Description
Schools/Teams
Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
Milestones
Additional Documents
Election 2008
Description Town Hall Meeting
Technology used: Skype, video conference, blog, surveymonkey
Equipment needed:
  • Webcams
  • school-based computers
  • Polycom video conference
Schools/Teams
  • Ellen Lyon
  • West Jeff, Higgins, Helen Cox
Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Used
Milestones
  • October 30 Town Hall Meeting 11:00AM
Additional Documents
Web 2.0 Classroom
Description Use Web 2.0 daily in the classroom, including Google Docs and blogging.
Technology used:
Equipment needed:
Schools/Teams
  • TBD
  • School Team Leaders: TBD
Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Used
Milestones
Additional Documents
Second Life
Description <TBD>
Technology used:
Equipment needed:
Schools/Teams
  • TBD
  • School Team Leaders: TBD
Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title: Quest Atlantis Reading Program
Description

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Schools/Teams
  • TBD
  • School Team Leaders: TBD
Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Needed
Technology used: QA softHware

Equipment needed:
  • Access to computers
  • QA software
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title: Aesop's Fables
Description: Students learn to use the Internet as a research tool and as a place to story "What I Know Is" on a Wiki
Students use Internet research to compare traditional and modern versions of Aesop's fables and find a moral in the stories. In small collaborative groups, students search webquest sites provided by the teacher. A class wiki will be set up for students to record information they find and share it with the class.
Pre-teaching Activities: Vocabulary and background are connected with the reading series on fables and tall tales.
Large group instruction: prior to starting the group activitiy, teacher will model Internet search and wiki use.
elizabeth.towe@jppss.k12.la.us
Schools/Teams: TBA
Grade Level: 2-3 (NOTE: Webquest and complexity of wiki and/or blog and extensions can be made to accommodate mythology unit in grades 8 - 9)
GLEs: ELA-2-E2 creating individual and class-written text for publication
ELA-6-E3 distinguish between poems, fables, and fairy tales
ISTE nets 2: Collaboration and communication, ISTE nets 3: research and information fluency
Technology Equipment Used: Internet for research and for sharing in a wiki
Milestones: TBA
Additional Documents
Title: The Making of... a Butterfly Garden
Description
Using webcams and Skype software, students present and compare butterfly gardens with other classrooms with another schools. Students will track all of the changes in the life cycle of their classroom's butterfly(ies). Teacher’s can, also, create a blog to share data, videos, and photos. All video tracks from participating schools will be used to create a DVD for students, additionally posting the video on schools' websites.
Schools/Teams:
Tracie Spicuzza, Technology Integration Specialist, tracie.spicuzza@jppss.k12.la.us
Heidi Wilson, Technology Integration Specialist, heidi.wilson@jppss.k12.la.us
Debbie Valiente, Phoebe Hearst Elementary
Cherbonnier Elementary
C.T. Janet

Grade Level: Kindergarten
GLEs
Science
1. Ask questions about objects and events in the environment (e.g., plants, rocks, storms) (SI-E-A1)
2. Pose questions that can be answered by using students’ own observations and scientific knowledge (SI-E-A1)
3. Predict and anticipate possible outcomes (SI-E-A2)
4. Use the five senses to describe observations (SI-E-A3)
7. Express data in a variety of ways by constructing illustrations, graphs, charts, tables, concept maps, and oral and written explanations as appropriate (SI-E-A5) (SI-E-B4)
28. Observe life cycles and describe changes (LS-E-B1)
Technology Equipment Used: Flip Video cameras, digital cameras, webcams, Skype software
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title: Children's Hospital - Community Outreach
Description Based on the website www.storylineonline.net, in which actors/actresses are shown reading picture books, Student Council members will use a Flip video camera and/or the school site's video equipment to record readings of various picture books and/or novels across grade levels. The videos will be uploaded onto iTunes for patients at Children's Hospital to have access to. Five video iPods will need to be made available to Children's Hospital for check-out.
Schools/Teams
Tracie Spicuzza, Technology Integration Specialist, tracie.spicuzza@jppss.k12.la.us
Phyllis Mandal, Bonnebel High School

Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Used: Flip video cameras, Bonnebel's video equipment
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title: e-Mentor
Description A group of mentors (from Cisco?) work with students on a regular basis to answer questions via email, blogs, Skype.
Schools/Teams
Adams? TBD - have not discussed yet
Grade Level Middle School
GLEs
Technology Equipment Used: Laptops, blog, podcasts, Skype
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title: Kiva.org micro loans to end poverty
Description kiva.org, endorsed by Alan November, lets you lend to a specific entrepreneur in the developing world - empowering them to lift themselves out of poverty.
Schools/Teams
TBD
Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Used
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title Candy Dandy
Description In this lesson, students learn the benefits of using graphs to communicate information, answer questions, and solve problems as they investigate color distribution in bags of M&M's. Working with actual bags of candy, students sort and classify contents, summarize their findings on a Google Docs, convert the numbers into charts, and make predictions about color distribution in other bags of candy. A classroom Blogs will be maintained to use to collaborate their findings with another class and to post their graphs.
Schools/Teams
Debra Coleman, Technology Integration Specialist, debra.coleman@jppss.k12.la.us
TBA

Grade Level TBA
GLEs
Technology Equipment Used Google Docs, Blogs, Digital Camera
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title Book Share/Talk
Description
Students present a book to the class though Wiki and Podcast and add it to a database. Other students in the class read one of the presented books and add their review to the database. Students can consult the database anytime they are looking for a good book.
Schools/Teams
Debra Coleman, Technology Integration Specialist, debra.coleman@jppss.k12.la.us
Grade Level
GLEs
Technology Equipment Used
Milestones
Additional Documents
Title: TNT DramaMatters
Description:
  • This projects brings drama into the classroom with a teachers guide, videos and activities to support drama, language development, writing and speaking skills, team work, and creativity.
  • This project will encourage students from different schools to share journey in drama and to collaboratively complete smaller projects.
  • This will be done with wikis and blogs.
  • The students will have a “Final Performance”, it is a long term project that requires at least 10 weeks.
Schools/Teams: Charmaine Lewis, Classroom Technology Specialist
Charmaine.Lewis@jppss.k12.la.us
Grade Level: All
GLEs
Technology Equipment Used: Computer, Internet, Headsets with microphones, Digital Camera, Video Camera
Milestones
Additional Documents: Copies of the teacher's guide.

 

 

 

 

 

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