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Activities Developed by Teachers With Information Technology

Title Birds Web Site (Spring, 2003)
Grades 1 and 2
Teacher(s) Gretchen Garvey (ggarvey@cssu.org) and Lucinda Richmond (UVM Student Intern)
Resources Microsoft FrontPage Ò, Microsoft Word Ò
Time Spent 4 hours (for teacher preparation)
Setting Classroom and computer lab
Abstract Students researched information on a specific local bird, wrote down specific facts, and created art work reflecting their bird.  Most students worked in pairs during the research of their bird. Once the information was written down, each report was keyed into a single Word Ò file by a teacher or teacher intern.  Pictures were scanned and saved as a digital picture.  A web page template was created by a school technical support person.  A teacher, or student teacher then copied the text in to the template from Word Ò and inserted the scanned pictures into the web page via FrontPage Ò.  Students then viewed the final web page and described their work to the entire class during a group presentation.  The site can be seen at: http://www.scsvt.org/teams/explor/birds/birds.htm.
Positive Aspects
  • Making a meaningful connection between the classroom and technology.
Challenging Aspects (or "When I do this again ...")
  • Moving text from Word to FrontPage was difficult at times.

   

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