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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! ===== Erica Payne, Library Media Specialist Polk Elem School Dearborn Heights, Michigan epayne75@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST, etc.) send email to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. 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