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Good morning,

Thanks to everyone who wrote and gave me ideas of
projects that worked to share with my teachers!  Here
is a HIT of the ideas I recieved.

Thanks again!

Erica Payne, LMS
Polk Elementary School
Dearborn Heights, MI

I have used Hyperstudio for years with 1st and 2nd
grades.  It's recommended for 3 and above, but I have
had no problem using it with younger students.  It's a
great tool.  I have used it for a variety of projects.
Last year I first grade, we did a very simple slide
show on a famous person (they worked in 2's or 3's).
Their slide show had a picture imported from the
Internet of that person, what made them famous and
when they lived
and died.
2nd grade did the same thing with a little more
information.  We printed them out and made them into
booklets for them to take home.  The kids loved it.
First grade needed help with the download, but they
did all the typing and selection of font, etc.
themselves.

I have also had the kids re-tell fables, tall-tales
and fairytales using the program.  We recorded their
voices over the drawings.  I also did an "All about
me" slide show with first grade.  The teachers loved
it and the administration is always impressed.

I must admit that I met with each grade 2 times a
week, once for regular library classes and another
time for these projects.  They would be even easier to
do if you had flexible scheduling and could bring the
kids in every day or if the classroom teacher
initiated it.  I had one reading teacher who had her
kids do a little slide show on cats.  She was the
only one I had take the initiative to do her own.
Most of the teachers depended on me to do it.  I'm not
there anymore and they really miss the cool stuff we
did.

******

We used HyperStudio with 4th grade students studying
the states.  Each student had a state and did research
using library resources, the Internet and online
encyclopedia.  We had strict guidelines for their
stack that they created.  All of the fourth graders
sang a song "Fifty Nifty United States" in music
class.  We recorded it and attached to their stack.
It was one of the best intercurricular activities I
have ever participated in.  I am sorry I don't seem to
have any examples of their work.  I didn't bring them
with in the move.  I do have examples of our lessons
though if you are interested in those. I can probably
get you one if you really need it.

*******

Webbing, brainstorming, Listing a current event and
adding to it as the event evolves, writing a story
like webbing, compare and contrast, problem solving
i.e. problem and solutions

*******

You can find descriptions of a couple of Hyperstudio
projects at our Teaching Through Technology Web site.
http://www.ecb.org/ttt

Here are some that I know use Hyperstudio, in things
like social studies projects, learning games,
autobiographies...

http://www.ecb.org/ttt/program10.htm#Hyperstudio
http://www.ecb.org/ttt/program13.htm#teachers
http://www.ecb.org/ttt/program1.htm#wpsmp
http://www.ecb.org/ttt/program16.htm#biography

Also the Hyperstudio Web site has examples of student
work online. http://www.hyperstudio.com/showcase/

*******

One easy thing I did was to backward engineer one of
the samples on the  HyperStudio disc and use it in an
example of how the presentation was just an extension
of an already good research project.  I wrote what
might have been the fourth grade essay that was made
into the HyperStudio presentation, then went back and
wrote it by hand.  I used all of the hand written,
word processed and HyperStudio reports to make the
point that the
stuff done in the computer lab (word processing and
HyperStudio) are only refinements of the "good"
research assignment, that began with a classroom
teacher's idea and work in the library.  Now that I am
thinking even further about that project that I
produced literally overnight, I would probably go back
even another step and relate the slides in the
HyperStudio presentation to parts of the graphic
organizer that WE might have had the kids use to do
their research.

*******

The Inspiration website gives examples of how to
integrate Kidspiration into the curriculum. They also
have two lesson plans from their Activity Book.
http://www.inspiration.com/productinfo/kidspiration/using_kids/index.cfm

Hyperstudio examples can be found at:
http://aitt.acadiau.ca/tutorials/Hyperstudio3/HyperStudio.htm

*******

Another idea in the same vein that one of my teachers
does is a class welcome project for parents’ night.
Students use digital camera to take pictures of
themselves, every kid comes up with a joke, and
answers questions like favorite food, color, family
makeup.  This is all put on HS and displayed
throughout the evening.
This same teacher uses it for students to write Choose
your own Adventure Books.  I love this one.  The
buttons have different ways the story can go and they
must chart it all out for everything to work out
correctly.
My French teacher used it to translate “the Cat in the
Hat” in French and used it to display during last
year’s Read Across America.
We also had one 6th grade class where each student had
to research a significant part of space exploration.
˝ the class worked on HS and the other ˝ Power Point
then when they were finished with projects each ˝
taught the others the new program (HS or PP).
Another one I collaborated on concerned a Community HS
Project (I actually got this idea from another
educator).  We have 4 towns in our school system
Students were divided into groups of 5 and each group
was responsible for one town.  In the group each
student was responsible for one aspect of the town:
tourism, commerce, government and organizations,
history, and schools (we have 3 elem).  They were
given 2 rubrics one based on individual work and one
based on group.  I graded them on a combination of my
assessment of the rubrics added to their own
assessments.  For a first try they did rather well and
the teacher was pleased.  Each person had to do an all
about me page as well.
The last thing is I am still pushing it with some
teachers.  It sounds like you are off to a good start
by previewing it at a faculty meeting.  We have also
had some mini-tech workshops after school and during
summer.  Fortunately we received a grant to pay for
this but I have had 2 workshops on HS that has helped
get the word out on this great program.

*******

Hyperstudio: We had a wonderful project where the 5th
grade students researched an animal and then created a
Hyperstudio stack with their research. They followed a
rubric to make sure certain elements were included.
When they were complete, the 2nd grade students came
in to the computer lab to do research using the 5th
graders' Hyperstudio projects. Teacher collaboration
between grades; teacher/LMS collaboration on research
skills; student collaboration between 5th and 2nd
grade - a win-win project. The 5th graders did a MUCH
better job because they knew their peers (albeit
younger) were going to be using it for research so it
was a more authentic assignment than one just turned
in for a grade. Hope this gives you a good idea!


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Erica Payne, Library Media Specialist
Polk Elem School
Dearborn Heights, Michigan
epayne75@yahoo.com

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