Author Archives: Hebron Tech

US History – Freedom Trail Video Tours using Clips or iMovie

As in previous years US History students took a trip this trimester to Boston. They spent the day walking along the Freedom Trail and, in groups, documenting the tour by taking pictures and movies with their iPads. Once back in school they had … Continue reading

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Conceptual Physics – 3D Race Car Design

A project that Freshmen complete every year in their Conceptual Physics course is designing and creating cars that are raced down a ramp and measured for speed and distance travelled. Students design their cars completely using Tinkercad to create parts to be printed on the 3D … Continue reading

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Using the Clips App to Create Quick Classroom Videos

Clips is a new app for making fun videos to share with friends, family, and the world. With a few taps you can create and send a video message or tell a quick story with animated text, graphics and emoji, … Continue reading

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Using the Google Drive App

The Google Drive app allows you to save your Google Drive and Shared Drive (previously called Team Drives) files locally to your MacBook (as well as sync them between multiple computers). It works in a similar way to something like Dropbox by … Continue reading

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Creating Shared (Team) Drives

Shared (Team) Drives are a new feature within Google Drive for storing and sharing files between groups of people. A Shared Drive allows you to create a shared space within Google Drive for just your department and make it so that … Continue reading

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Tech Integration Showcase 2017

To wrap-up the academic year here is a compilation video showing off the breadth and depth of technology integration projects completed this year using the iPads, Chromebooks, the two computers labs and the 3D printer. Most of the projects included … Continue reading

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U.S. History – 3D Timelines

Students were assigned a decade beginning with the end of WWI to the modern day. With that specific time period, students gathered information on specific people, places and things (actual things or events) that had a significant impact at that … Continue reading

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Honors World History – Interactive Posters

Throughout the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Behavior course students examined, discussed and attempted to rationalize horrendous events in human history. Genocide, ethnic cleansing and slavery; racial, religious and gender supremacy, terrorism and collateral damage. The goal was to encourage students … Continue reading

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Spanish I – Cultural Websites

Using the new Google Sites, for their end of year exam Spanish I students created cultural websites based around a Spanish speaking country of their choice. The sites had to contain a page covering the basic information about their country, a … Continue reading

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American Literature – WordPress Class Portfolios

Inspired by a previous post, for their culminating project American Literature students had to create a class portfolio of their writings from the year. Using a WordPress blog students had to submit ten pieces of class work complete with an … Continue reading

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