Student Technology Showcase

March 21, 2013

MACUL Conference

Cobo Center, Detroit

MEA/MACUL

March 21, 2013

Dear MEA /MACUL Student Technology Showcase Participants and Visitors,

On behalf of the Michigan Education Association and the Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning, we welcome you to the Student Technology Showcase. We are pleased and honored to have you be a part of an event that highlights the creative ways Michigan students are using technology to enrich their learning.

The teams participating in today’s Student Technology Showcase represent K-12 grades from all areas of Michigan. MACUL’s annual conference provides an excellent venue to demonstrate the many innovative projects on display here today.

MEA and MACUL are proud to present the 2013 Student Technology Showcase and are grateful to the students, teachers, administrators and parents who assisted in supporting today’s participants, as well as the volunteers who helped plan and prepare for this event.

Again, we thank you for your participation and attendance and hope that you will benefit from seeing the unique ways that technology is preparing today’s students for tomorrow’s workforce.

Sincerely,

Gretchen Dziadosz, Executive Director Ric Wiltse, Executive Director Michigan Education Association Michigan Assoc. for Computer Users in Learning

2013Student Technology

Showcase

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Black Elementary Warren Consolidated Schools

Media Specialist - Shauna Coleman 5th grade students - Jordan Burton, Jack Fiori, Andrew Haddad, Brennan Lux and Mckenzie Sauger

Chinese New Year and the Big 6/Kid Pix

Students apply the Big 6 research process to a holiday celebration. Following the 6 steps, students question, find and extract information, synthesize and evaluate. Students use grade appropriate databases such as MeL, Grolier Online and Fact Monster to search for relevant information. They use the illustration software Kid Pix to create a dragon, which is an iconic symbol during the Chinese New Year celebration. They demonstrate their knowledge of different tools within the software to create a detailed, colorful, and appealing image. This presentation focuses on Common Core, 21st Century Information Literacy Standards, and the Michigan Educational Technology Standards.

Black Elementary Warren Consolidated Schools

Media Specialist - Shauna Coleman5th grade students – Sonia Ahmed, Noah Cole, Jack Meerhaeghe and Bevin Okuska

Public Service Announcements - Prezi and PowerPoint

Students learned the importance of creating public service announcements and how they are helpful. Messages include things that will promote safety and awareness in school, as well as reminders of things we should be aware of outside of school. Using thinking maps, students planned what their message would be and who the target audience was and created a presentation using Prezi or PowerPoint. Students wanted to compare the appeal of the two presentation tools and created a survey to see which students preferred. Utilizing these presentation tools allow students to be creative and take ownership of their work. It builds excitement about the learning process. This presentation focuses on Common Core, 21st Century Information Literacy Standards, and the Michigan Educational Technology Standards.

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Black Elementary Warren Consolidated Schools

Media Specialist - Shauna Coleman 5th grade students – Carlee Allen, Tyler Doral, Anoushka Dev, Rick Nguyen, Andrew Novak, Matthew Novak, Grade Orlando, Ashvin Pai and Ethan Price

Inkheart – Multimedia Presentations

Students were chosen to be a part of a book club to engage in meaningful conversations about fiction story elements. They read and documented their opinions of the story as well as pondered why the author chose to create scenes in a certain way. Students were given the opportunity to choose how they wanted to present this story to others; this would promote the book and hopefully raise student interest. In this presentation, students will show scenes from the story using Claymation, and discuss story elements using Prezi and Photo Story. All aspects of the process will be documented and showcased. Students had full control of the decision making process and the final product. Through collaboration and technology integration, they will convey the importance of having choice in their learning. This presentation focuses on Common Core, 21st Century Information Literacy Standards, and the Michigan Educational Technology Standards.

Deerfield Elementary Novi Community Schools

Teacher: Myla LeeStudent Leaders: Jack Cavazos, Gabrielle Cummings, Lisa Dai, Mark O’Connor, Sahana Raja, Abhinav Reddy and Aryan Singh

Oh, the Places You’ll Go!: Traveling the world with Google and High Quality Non-fiction Texts

Using Google forms, Google Documents, and Google Maps students independently discover their world and world of nonfiction by reading about countries and culture. This is just the beginning of an expanding journey on how student engagement can emerge with integrated technology within social studies and reading.

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Deerfield Elementary School Novi Community School District

Teacher: Julee Henry Students: Zora Jovicevic, Grace Price, Jessica Shaw, Robert Stanley, Ritika Tiwary and Gabriel Tonnos

4th Grade Student-Run News Broadcast

Working together for eight weeks using technology, a team of six, 4th grade student brainstorm, write, produce, and direct live weekly school-wide news broadcasts.

Divine Child High School Archdiocese of Detroit

Teacher: Serge Danielson-Francois Students: Julie Bonk, Sean Vichinsky, Trevor Renner and Josh Hejka

Smartphones and Embedded, Ubiquitous and Convergent Citizen Journalism

Student reporters for the Divine Child High School newspaper DC Faith in Action (www.dcfaithinaction.org) were given Dell Vue Windows 7 Smartphones in December 2012 and January 2013 to research, organize and file their stories through the WordPress mobile app. Students will share examples of their work, the protocols that they followed and the lessons that they learned about the affordances and constraints of citizen journalism.

Erie Elementary School Chippewa Valley Schools

Teacher: Vicki Myers

“Yes, I did that!”

Yes, I did that” is what students have told their parents after they have seen their technology projects. Varying tech projects will be shown - blogging, PowerPoints, and the use of digital cameras...”

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Green Acres Elementary Warren Consolidated Schools

Jean Wenner “Ants, Shoes, and Technology” Fourth Graders used their creativity and talents to complete a digital story highlighting advertisements for shoes they designed. Focusing on elements in the Common Core, 21st Century Information Literacy Standards, and the METs, students worked with literature, informational text, and technology to create this presentation. Beginning with “”Why Ants Don’t Wear Shoes” and completing Big 6 research about fashion design/designers, and ending with the design and marketing of their own shoe, students interacted with every piece of their projects.”

Green Acres Elementary School Warren Consolidated Schools

Jean Wenner Chickerella - An Exploration in Kindergarten Creativity Kindergartners shared the story, “Chickerella”, a funny version of the classic “Cinderella”. They each chose their favorite character from the story and used their skills on KidPix to demonstrate their knowledge of options on the tool bars, character and setting. Their writing skills were put to the test when they wrote/dictated sentences describing their favorite character.

Green Acres Elementary School Warren Consolidated Schools

Jean Wenner Etiquette for School Life Students used digital photography and PhotoStory to show how to follow all the rules of the school. They created a list of the most important things for all students to know to have good etiquette at school and photographed students demonstrating the appropriate behaviors. At the same time, they enlisted teachers to break the rules and photographed them as well. The result is a meaningful and humorous digital story that really hits home the need to have good etiquette to keep a safe learning environment.

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Guest Elementary Walled Lake Consolidated School District

Teacher: Barbara Ozminkowski Students: Caroline Christenson, Parker Stasak and Spencer Beck

Kinder Bloggers

Come see how five and six year old kindergarten students blog on their own personal blogs on a regular basis! If they can do it, anyone can! We will share information about Classblogmeister, a FREE, easy-to-use classroom blogging platform, so you can get started with your students right away.

Jefferson Elementary School Warren Consolidated School District

Teachers: Stephanie Staub, Jennifer Dorsch, Ann Gutman, and Keli SowellStudents: Normando Aziz, Julia Mandwee , Michael Natchev, Justin Scott, Chloe Sinkowski and Abigail Turchin Super3 Digital Biography Quilt Second grade students conducted a short research project (CCSS Writing 2.7), using the Super3 strategy. They extracted information and learned to take notes from print and digital resources to explore a famous American. They also designed a digital quilt square using KidPix. The finished quilt includes hyperlinks to their biography. They are excited to answer questions from visitors to their booth. The students also look forward to explaining the use of the Super3 research strategy, how to use the PebbleGo data base, and how to draw with KidPix.

Kingsbury Country Day School

Teacher: David Scovic

Creating Games from Scratch

Kingsbury’s 5th & 6th grade students learn computer programming skills. Using the free software Scratch, they have created games and projects to advance their knowledge. Come to their booth to play and learn!

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LaMora Park Elementary Battle Creek Public Schools

Teacher and Volunteers: Jeff Van Dis, Pam Cosgrove and Wil WalterhouseStudents: Alani Burt, Wyatt Mann, Alyssa Motter, and Robert Robertson Integrating Elementary Technology and Healthy Lifestyles The LaMora Park Honors Team will show you how they integrated various technologies (i.e. Internet, iPad, digital and video cameras, and more) to teach our school about “healthy lifestyles”. They will also show you a variety of projects that our students completed about healthy lifestyles.

Mayfield ElementaryLapeer Community Schools

Teacher: Robert Losinger Documentary Movies

Fifth grade students create movies of events/activities at school, or of concepts they learn in different subject areas. Students write scripts, take their pictures, and use Movie Maker to edit their video.

Michigan Virtual School

Teacher: Jay Bennett

Students in Online Learning

Michigan high school students will talk about their experiences taking online classes with the Michigan Virtual School.

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Mount Clemens High SchoolMount Clemens Community Schools

Patrick LinaburyStudents: Akasha Bethel, Nancy Berggren, Hannah Smith and Jamecia Webster

Bath City Beat

Bath City Beat (BCB) is an award-winning cable television show, produced by Mount Clemens High School students. BCB airs in several communities in Macomb County, with a potential audience of 200,000 per week. Segments can be found on YouTube and you can friend Bath City Beat on Facebook. http://www.candgnews.com/news/mount-clemens-student-wins-top-broadcasting-award

North Shore Elementary South Haven Public Schools

Teacher: Terri Wakild

Web 2.0 in the Classroom

“Students will share how we utilize various web 2.0 sites in our 5th grade classroom. Collaborize classroom, Voki, Weebly, PBWorks, Glogster, Museumbox, and many more will be shared. Handouts will be available.”

North Shore Elementary South Haven Public Schools

Teacher: Julie Sheppard Using Technology to Create MHD projects

Students will share a variety of projects completed for competition in the Michigan History Day competition. Students researched primary sources, and then created documentaries, websites, papers, exhibits, and performances.

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Richmond Middle School Richmond Community Schools

Teacher: Jackie Isaacson Students: Izzy Ferranti, Jessie Melton, Olivia Iskra and Emma Brockett

Girls in Programming Come meet the Richmond Middle School Girls in Programming Club and see their projects. The girls are using Alice, an object-oriented programming language, to create videos, games, and more!

Shrine Catholic Grade SchoolArchdiocese of Detroit

Teacher: Mrs. Dorothy Babbage Students: Elijah Harbut, Jonah Wisneski, Lydia Moylan and Julia Averbuch Micro Worlds EX “Micro Worlds EX – Programming and Animation”

Sixth grade students will demonstrate their use of Micro Worlds EX. They will create interactive multimedia projects, which will include drawings, animation, sound, and text. In creating these projects they will demonstrate their skills in drawing, programming, music composition and writing. Micro Worlds EX can be used across the curriculum and at many grade levels. Projects in Social Studies and Science will be showcased.

St. Johns Middle School St. Johns Public Schools

Teacher: Renee Jorae Students: Mariah Murno, Chaston Brya, Jacob Ernst and Kaity Gleason

New Way of Learning

Are you wondering what a paperless classroom looks like? If so, stop by to meet a few outstanding students from St. Johns Middle School! Students access their online courses in Moodle then demonstrate their knowledge on their very own Weebly blog! The students are excited to show off their blogs as well as how they have used Scratch, Alice, Google SketchUp, ArtRage, Animoto, Paint.net, Google Drive and several activities from www.21things4students.net.

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Valley View Elementary School Battle Creek Public Schools

Teacher: Ken VanDalsen

Lego Robotics

Our schools Lego Robotics Class will be showing demonstrations of how they construct objects using their Lego kit with integrated software. Students will explain the construction process and what their thinking was as they were planning and implementing.

Whitmore Lake Elementary SchoolWhitmore Lake Public Schools

Teachers: Brooke Stidham & Heidi Roy-Borland

The iPad Project: Year 2 One classroom set of iPads inspired the purchase of iPods to engage more early elementary students with technology. First and second grade students will share their expertise of iPads and iPods and how they use technology to succeed in the classroom. Come see skill mastery and technology integration presented by some of the youngest conference attendees!

The 2013 MEA/MACUL Student Technology Showcase is proudly sponsored by the Michigan Education Association and its approximately 150,000 members.

The mission of the MEA is to ensure that the education of our students and the working environments of our members are of the highest quality.