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Created by: Janice AbernethyFebruary 2007

My name is Janice Abernethy, and this is my fifth grade class at East Elementary in Greenville, Pennsylvania. Please join me in a tour of my technologically infused classroom!

You may click through the presentation or use the index on the next page to navigate to topics of interest.

PRESENTATION INDEX

Classroom Website Podcasting

Family Involvement Challenge 24

Stock Market Science Fair

Mrs. A’s Cyber School WebQuests

Digital Photography Collaboration Project

Students using technology

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These links are used in our daily quest for knowledge. The following slides are a sampling of these webpage contents.

Students use this research web page to research topics being learned about in class. Each link takes the student to a webpage with safe links for research.

This is a popular page with the students. They may view pictures of previous classrooms and share their own field trip experience with family and friends.

Students use this page for research and to share our pets with their families. Each pet has its own page with research links.

Students can download their projects at home to share with family and friends.

This page includes links to interactive games to practice skills. The games may be played on the SmartBoard or on individual computers at school or home.

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From choosing their project to the end product, students incorporate technology with science in innovative ways.

Our webpage: used for Science Fair Research

View pictures of projects created by students using technology.

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Parent communication and involvement is essential to student success. View some of the ways technology makes this possible.

Our website is our biggest link between home and school

Sites of interest to parents on the website.

and many more…

Online lesson plans provide parents with the day to day activities going on in the classroom.

Parents use Edline to access students’ grade, lesson plans, and links to websites of interest.

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Students come to school early to play this fun math game.

View the next slide to see how we have incorporated technology into our Challenge 24 Club.

A card is scanned, then projected on the screen. Students use EggSpert to push a button. The first to “ring in” gives the solution and gets the points.

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Students in the Stock Market Club participate in two contests.

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See how students use technology to play the Stock Market Games

Students trade twice a week using stock quotes in the Sharon Herald. They track their stock prices in an excel file, using laptop computers. They are competing against students from other schools in the area.

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Column 6 Column 7DATE NAME OF STOCK NUMBER PRICE TOTAL PRICE COMMISSION

OF SHARES PER SHARE Col 3 x Col 4 .02 X Col 5 Buy: Col 5 + 6Sell: Col 5 - 6

1/23/2007 Buy Apple Inc 100 86.79 8,679.00 173.58 8,852.581/23/2007 Buy Verizon 100 37.25 3,725.00 74.50 3,799.501/23/2007 Buy Hershey 100 52.30 5,230.00 104.60 5,334.601/23/2007 Buy GenMills 100 56.79 5,679.00 113.58 5,792.581/30/2007 Buy Disney 200 34.68 6,936.00 138.72 7,074.721/30/2007 Buy SearsHldgs 100 176.54 17,654.00 353.08 18,007.081/30/2007 Buy FordM 100 8.37 837.00 16.74 853.742/13/2007 Sell Ford 100 8.65 865.00 17.30 847.702/13/2007 Buy Google 100 458.29 45,829.00 916.58 46,745.58

Column 8

Buy $100,000 - col 7Sell: $100,000 + col 7

100,000.0091,147.4287,347.9282,013.3276,220.7469,146.0251,138.9450,285.2051,132.90

4,387.32

Stocksquest is an online trading game. Students have their own accounts, and they are part of a class contest. I provide each student with a billion dollars, and they can check their class rank at any time.

Students use Yahoo Finance to research their stocks.

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Students use this sturdy digital camera to take pictures for use in projects. They can even take the camera home to take pictures of their pets to share with the class.

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Students collaborated with a third grade class in New Jersey in an effort to learn the differences between urban and rural areas.

Daily emails, pen pal letters, and various cross curricular activities were incorporated in this project.

Students from Newark toured their town and shared the experience with our students through digital pictures.

Our students toured Greenville and shared their digital pictures.

I made a trip to New Jersey to meet our partners, and the entire project was presented at a conference. We won first place for our interdisciplinary collaboration.

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Our latest technological venture includes student- created podcasts.

Link to iTunes to download our podcast or go to our website to play our podcasts directly on your computer.

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Students use WebQuests in their quest for knowledge.

Our website has a variety of collected WebQuests in all the topics we are studying in 5th Grade.

WebQuests include downloadable worksheets, directions, and Rubrics

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I have also created some of my own WebQuests using Dreamweaver.

This is an online course I created for students using Moodle. It can be accessed from school and home and it is fully functional.

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