These are some of the tools and objectives that the teachers from the Center's 21st Century Learning Initiative have worked on with their students this year.
4th grade students worked on improving speaking skills by using Audacity to record themselves as they designed, planted and cared for the horticultural area at their school. They then published the audio recordings as podcasts so that they could share them with their family and friends. You can listen to all that the students accomplished at Gardening Fun with Friends by Mrs. Swartz' Fourth Grade Class 4th graders used Glogster to create a digital visual to use during an oral presentation about the Holocaust and World War II. The Glog was to have an embedded video, 2-3 facts, and several images that they could refer to during their presentation. 5th graders used the Discussion section of a private Wikispace to communicate with their classmates about the topics they were researching in the period of the Revolutionary War. You can view their wiki pages and discussions at http://mrmswikispaces.wikispaces.com/.
6th graders were asked to create a Glogster to share as an introduction for other students to the book The Giver by Lois Lowry.
| High School AP German Students used Poll Everywhere and their cell phones to practice using the correct tense in their written sentences. The teacher was able to assess immediately what skills she needed to review before moving on to her next objective.
10th grade history students accomplished the following objectives through this project:
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