Category Archives: Tech in the Classroom

In grade 6/7 Spanish Flex classes this semester we have been creating Spanish Country websites using iWeb. After the students had been allocated a Spanish speaking country to explore, students planned out their sitemap using Google Drawing, researched and collected their content … Continue reading →

A technology integration project that was recently completed in 8th grade Art was stop motion videos. This is when you turn a succession of individual still images into a movie by stitching them together and playing them at high speed. … Continue reading →

In grade 6 & 7 Science a recent project was to create biomes in 3D using SketchUp. The class was split into groups of two and three and each randomly allocated a different biome, from desert to tundra. After several … Continue reading →

Grade 6 & 7 students wanted a different way to publish the epic poems and associated artwork they had created last semester in History. We decided on Google Sites with each student’s site having the following layout: Page 1 – … Continue reading →

Grade 6 and 7 History students turned their hand-drawn ideograms into interactive images using Photoboth, Preview, the screenshot tool in OS X and ThingLink. Using reflective text they had written about their drawings they added tags to specific areas on their … Continue reading →

Grade 8 History students recently completed a technology project based around a poem they had written on the Aztecs. In groups, their task was to create a multimedia presentation of their poem using photographs, drawings and images from the internet. … Continue reading →

This week in the Freshmen skills class we did a couple of sessions on Google search skills. This included an introduction into how Google actually works when you hit the search button – PageRank, spiders, etc.. A good overview of this … Continue reading →

Here is a quick overview of some of the different apps installed (or that can be installed) on the Faculty MacBook Airs: Audacity – a quick way to record and edit audio Comic Life – create comic book layouts with panels, … Continue reading →