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=Teacher Project Exemplars=

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Creating Audio Books in Garageband with Tech Buddies
Teachers: Nancy Einstein & Megan Henry, Jamie Gaffga & Maria Marsciano Schools: Cynwyd & Penn Valley Grades: 5 & 1

For this project, 5th grade students are recording short picture books in Garageband. The 5th grade students are practicing their fluency, reading with expression, and emphasizing punctuation marks, "as if" they are reading to a first grader. These recordings will be used by the first grade students in their reading centers. In the recordings, the 5th grade students have added light background music, sound effects, and a unique sound for page turning cues.

** The Gingerbread Man Hunt **
Teacher: Tanya Backlund School: Penn Valley Grade: 1

As a conclusion to their author study of Jan Brett and Gingerbread stories, Mrs. Backlund’s first grade class scoured Penn Valley looking for the Gingerbread man. Pairs of students read clues about the places the Gingerbread Man had stopped while he visited PV. After traveling around the school, students discovered the Gingerbread Man was indeed to fast for them. Students returned to the classroom and wrote stories about where they thought the Gingerbread Man went after he left PV. Mrs. Backlund recorded the students on their search for the Gingerbread man and her students reading their gingerbread stories.

Students wrote for a purpose. The flip camera was used to highlight the purpose of writing for an audience. Students were able to experience the publishing phase of the writing process. Students went back to the video to check for sentence variation, details, and word choice (WOW words). They discussed with their partners what they could do to make their stories more interesting. The flip was used as a tool to evaluate and revise their own writing.

Teacher: Donna Popko School: Merion Grade: 4 Wally is a traveling Wolly Mammoth who will be visiting all schools participating in the project. Wally is "real (a stuffed animal)", and lives among the humans (read his interesting backstory). While living in the beautiful state of Pennsylvania, Wally has acquired the "traveling bug" to go and explore other states (and beyond) to learn and explore. Wally, and the classes he visits, will BLOG about his wonderful travels and experiences, all the while, encouraging creative uses of multimedia on the [|BLOG]. ▪ What makes a state so great? ▪ WHY do people choose to live in a particular state? ▪ HOW have the people, resources and geography impacted it's rich history?
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Teacher: Lynne Partridge Using the book, a “River Runs Through It”, by Lynne Cherry, Students will learn about watersheds around PA. We will collaborate with classes from around PA using Google Earth as our vehicle, videoconference will connect to water/environmental experts. Students will collect data and use Google spreadsheets to record and analyze.

· Is your water safe and healthy to drink? · Is water as safe in Phila, than it is in Pittsburg? · How safe is water to drink and how do we know? · What are some environmental effects on water and how can they be prevented? See More
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Teaching Fluency W/ Garageband
Teacher: Vivian Lax, Samantha, Jamie Shrut, Amanda Daneiro Grades: All- spec ed Project: Using Garageband for Spec Ed- teaching fluency and speaking skills Students record reading samples in Garageband. While viewing multiple recorded tracks, students can visualize the lengths of the recordings, listen to their reading playback and evaluate, practice strategies, etc. Students can also save recordings and keep a collection of their progress while reflecting along the way.

Rock Our World - Walk Our World
Teacher:Marita McCormick (**work in progress) Grades: All- Music Site: [] Project: Students work with students from around the world by creating tracks in Garageband each week and pass it on to the next school. Students in turn build on these tracks while creating a song in the end. Students will join in via videoconference to meet and socialize with the other students.** **Using Apple’s GarageBand, each country creates a 30 second drum beat. Every Friday, that drum rotates to another country, where the bass guitar is added. It keeps getting passed along, from country to country. At each stop, one more instrument is added. When it comes back to the original country, it has touched students from all over the world!

Nike has partnered with this project as the studetns help create a design for a WOW (Walk Our world) shoe. One final shoe will be selected to be marketed in the end.**

**African American Podcast (**work in progress)
Teacher: any Grade: Any

Project: Students are asked, "Have you ever had a time when you or someone else was treated unfairly?" Students can record their answers on flip cameras, or simply record in Garageband to tell about their stories and/or watch them as a class.


 * Essential Questions**: Who is responsible to make it fair for everyone?

Have the students write down their answers. Create a podcast recording of their answers.