Category Archives: Tech in the Classroom

Seniors in Elements of College-Level Literature and Composition are tasked with writing a project proposal and researching it using films, video games, books, or music albums. The proposal, once approved, contains what their topic is, what their materials will be, … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

We recently setup a class blog for the AP Literature and Composition course and they have been using it in their study of poetry, including reflections and discussion on the texts they have been reading, as well as publishing their own original … Continue reading →

A large group project the Freshmen completed this semester in their English and Humanities classes was an Ancient Greek newspaper. The students were split into groups and each was responsible for one section of the newspaper, from World News to … Continue reading →