Geocaching - Integrating Social Studies

Students had to use a hand-held GPS unit to navigate around the school using waypoints to find their caches. in each cache was a different explorer that they had to answer a questions on their tracking sheet. It was a digital Scavenger hunt using longitude & latitude.

Comic Life Math Integration

This is a collaboration Project that i have started with the 8th grade Math Classes. It was a review of math equations. Students had to create their pledge plan for a walkathon with 1 or more constants. they created a hand drawn storyboard, then took pics with their group and made their comic through Comic Life.

Comic Life

Below are a few projects that students created in a piece of software called Comic Life.

Interactive Mobi Unboxing

We recently just ordered some new tech products for our teachers. Instead of me giving a demo several times throughout the year, i created an uboxing video that gives instructions on what each product is and does. As well, as how to install the software.

Below is a video project that I had a student create. It was a stop motion video project. Stop motion means to physically manipulate a photo to make it appear as it is moving on its own. She took over 5,000 photos but used 1,568. This is her story...

Word Art

Here are a couple of projects that students submitted through a websites,

Wordle & Tagxedo. They did poems about terminology and feeling of a basketball game through a word cloud. A Word cloud is a graphical representation of words. The other student created a picture of herself outlined of terms about Highland.

International Project

Students had to research a international landmark and then create a mii portrait of themselves and photoshop themselves into the photo. Then add a speech bubble to showcase their their fact about the landmark..

2010-2011 Yearbook Superlative Winners

The 2010-2011 yearbook staff worked hard to put together a yearbook that would be special to everyone. Below is a video of the superlative winners for the 3 8th grade classes. The Eagles, Navigators, & Pathfinders.