Tom Jones
(Manchester - United States)I am a retired high school principal in my 3rd year of post-retirement re-employment teaching high school English.
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- Contributed By: Janis Matos-Mlekoday
I began this project this year with my 3rd, 4th and 5th graders mainly just as a way to keep tabs on where we have gone all year but now that we have been doing it for two quarters I see that there are many different ways in which we can be using this. My theme this year was "Travel Through Technology". We all began the year with passports and we started these Journal Powerpoints as a sort of Travel Diary of all of our Virtual Adventures and Project encounters that we were experiencing. At the end of the year the children will go back and hyperlink all of their completed projects to their PowerPoints and play them for their classmates and burn them to CD as a momento. ( Students who leave early from SPE are able to burn their CD early and take it with them in hopes that they may want to continue it elsewhere). We will also save them to their H:// drives (their permanant hard drives supplied to them by the district) for next year so that they will have an archive to look back on for growth and developmental reflection.
