Middle School Information Technology

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Entries Tagged as 'integration'

1001 Flat World Tales Begins!

March 12th, 2007 · No Comments

Our grade 7 English students are embarking on an exciting collaborative project today! They will be part of the 1001 Flat World Tales project initiated by Mr. Burrell at Korea International School. Our students will be writing myths and legends about Malaysia using a wiki to work in collaboration with students in Serbia and Canada [...]

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Tags: 21st Century Communication · Class Wikis · integration

Making Connections

January 25th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Our eighth grade students have just started a fantastic new project in Mr. R’s English class. The will be working with students all around the world to discuss what life is like as a teenager in today’s society.
“The purpose of this project is to have teenagers from different locations around the globe exchange their thoughts [...]

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Tags: 21st Century Communication · integration

21st Century Communication

December 1st, 2006 · No Comments

All of our middle school students now have their own blogs hosted by Learner Blogs. You can find links to all student blogs here on this blog (on the sidebar), or sorted by class on the individual teacher blogs (listed below). Feel free to read what they are writing and to participate in the conversation. [...]

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Tags: 21st Century Communication · integration

Integration Takes Off!

November 20th, 2006 · No Comments

The middle school IT integration initiative is really taking off! We have authentic, engaging, and exciting projects developing at all grade levels. I will be keeping track of all projects on this site on the projects page. To give you an overview, here is what’s going on:
Grade 6:
Social Studies Meets IT: Blogging in Social Studies: [...]

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Tags: general · integration