Tec Fac Hotline for EECHS Family: 452-2376
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Helpful Sites
E-portfolios
Workshop:
http://www.electronicportfolios.org/
google/workshop.html
Storage:
www.epsilen.com
Mock Trial:
http://www.abanet.org/publiced/mo
cktrialguide.pdf
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Workshop:
http://www.electronicportfolios.org/
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| A week in the life of a 1:1 Laptop School: Edgecombe Early College By Brent Bryant, EECHS Technology Facilitator (bryantb@edgecombe.edu) Thursday 10:00 pm: EECHS’ Civics and Economics students class meet via Google Documents to have a real time text discussion of Barrack Obama’s acceptance speech. Students discuss what it takes to be a leader, the purpose of “glittering generalities, and post political cartoons for comment. The teacher/moderator uses this document the next day to deepen the discussion of our electoral system and the importance of the free exchange of ideas. Friday 8:05 a.m. EECHS’ administrative assistant/bookkeeper receives teacher’s attendance forms and lunch counts via Google Talk. This arrangement eliminates the need for students to collect attendance/lunch documents form each classroom. The interface allows Mrs. Wilkins to speak directly to teachers to “sign out” students from class. Monday 9:43 a.m. Students in the Spanish II class utilize the Animoto application to create digital presentations for their “Spanish-speaking Country” projects. These projects combine text, sound, and animation for visually stunning presentations. Tuesday 1:07 p.m. Students in the AVID class use webcams and the Movie Maker program to create video shorts about the traits of successful high school/college students. Wednesday 8:52 a.m. EECHS’ technology facilitator meets with the English teacher to arrange a time for a short workshop on using Google Earth to conduct a virtual tour of the locations in Elie Wiesel’s holocaust memoir Night. Thursday 10:00 p.m. The Civics and Economics class meets again, from their homes, to discuss John McCain’s address to the Republican National Convention. |
Helpful Docs
Parent/Student Laptop Agreement
Care and Use Guidelines
Temporary Admin Rights
Portfolio Requirements (Draft)
Parent/Student Laptop Agreement
Care and Use Guidelines
Temporary Admin Rights
Portfolio Requirements (Draft)
| EECHS Makes In-Roads “In World” By Brent Bryant Edgecombe Early College High School has been a 1:1 laptop school since early spring, 2008. EECHS’ technology facilitator had the opportunity to attend the International Society of Technology Educators (ISTE) conference in the summer of 2008. At this conference he was exposed to the educational potential of Second Live. Second Life is a Multi-user Virtual Environment (MUVE) with tremendous potential for effective instruction and collaboration. To this end EECHS students went “in world” for the first time in January 2009. In order to protect our students from the dangers of this free and open environment, several accounts were created and the Second Life application was installed on four itinerate laptops that required administrative credentials to log in. Once access was secured, the technology facilitator (tec fac) began collaborating with one of EECHS’ English instructors to bring the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” new meaning in Second Life. After a brief tutorial on the Second life interface, students were encouraged to edit the appearance of their second life avatars. Soon their avatars, with some very unique features, ventured forth and teleported to ISTE Island. On ISTE Island, the class experienced the power of a Second life site. Their avatars flew, along with their tec fac, to conference rooms, campfires, and beaches. They chatted, gestured, and used voice communication to comment on the landscape and the possibilities for instruction and collaboration that Second Life offered. As this happened the technology steered his avatar to another “map” and the English teacher began her part of this experience. In “The Most Dangerous Game” humans are hunted for sport. In our session the tec fac’s Avatar was hunted for the purpose of gaining new literacies. As the students solved the English Teacher’s riddles and unlocked clues as to the Tec fac Avatar’s location, a 45 minute chase began. The chase led the students from the Alamo, to Paris in the year 1900, to the “in world” campus of East Carolina University. At ECU each student tagged the tec fac Avatar and this group picture was taken. The class ended with students smiling and expressing their desires to see Second Life implemented with much greater frequency in the future. |
