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Grade 6/7 French – Radio Shows in GarageBand

Following up from this project during French Flex, grade 6/7 students worked with a partner to record themselves in GarageBand reading their storybooks. They then edited these recordings together into one track, added a brief welcome introduction, sounds effects and a … Continue reading

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Grade 7 English – Storyboarding & Green Screen

Grade 7 English students have been studying a student version of The Odyssey, and their final project was to choose a story from the book and then film themselves acting out the story. The first step in creating their re-telling of the … Continue reading

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Websites and Blogs

If you would like to create a website or blog, either as a separate class project or more as a way for students to create an online portfolio, there are a number of options available: WordPress As part of myHebron, … Continue reading

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Grade 6/7 French – Children’s Storybooks

Grade 6/7 students have been learning French vocabulary for different animals, items of clothing and colors. Based around these sets of words they each created a children’s storybook in which an animal visits a famous place and then puts on ten different … Continue reading

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Grade 6/7 – Digital Landscapes

For the past few weeks the grade 6/7 art class has been working on a digital landscape art project using the desktop version of Sketchbook. This is a great app that tries to mirror paint and paint brush effects in software, … Continue reading

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Grade 7 Math – Surveys & Data Analysis

Grade 7 Math students spent the past two weeks working on a survey project, with each student picking a topic of interest, creating a survey based around this topic, collecting data from the school community and then analyzing and reporting … Continue reading

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MacBook Audio & Video Basics

Working with both audio and video in the classroom is a great way to integrate technology. You can use it to simply record student presentations and performances, either for practice or self and peer evaluation, or create a multimedia project such a … Continue reading

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Presentation Apps

There are a number of choices on your MacBooks and iPads (and the library for student projects) for creating presentations. 1. PowerPoint. This is installed on all faculty MacBooks and there is now a free app for all iOS devices (although you will … Continue reading

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ESL World Literature & World History – Propaganda Posters

Language has power. It is how information and ideas are shared. Hebron Academy students in the Advanced ESL World Literature and Advanced ESL Modern World History classes grasped just how powerful language can be as they studied the causes and … Continue reading

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Grade 6 Math – Shape Textbooks

The grade 6s have been creating Shape textbooks in their Math classes using Pages. Each student was give a selection of shapes to research and then their books were planned out using a standard structure of: Cover page Contents Introduction Main sections … Continue reading

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