Projects

Over the past couple of years I have been invovled with many innovative and collaborative projects in various classrooms throughout our district. Below is a summary of a few of these projects.

__**River City Project **__ This project is designed and intended to replace existing lessons and is interdisciplinary in scope, spanning domains of ecology, health, biology, chemistry and earh science, as well as history. Three diseases simulatneously affect health in River City, based on hisotrical, social and geographical content. As stiudents travel back in time in a virtual world they will need to use all the skills that they have to help solve the problems that this city has encountered. The rdsidents are currently suffering from health poroblems that are environmental concerns. The students will study what effect these are on the health of the residents. The collaboration of all classes from the three schools was an important part of the project as students examined different aspects of the city and how they might relate to what is happening in our communties today. This project has continued at Devon Middle School.

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__**Sony e-Reader Projects **__ Two e-reader projects were started last year in our district and I worked with teachers from all schools invovled. All of these projects were literacy based. At Fredericton High and Leo Hayes High teachers purchased e-Readers with ILF funding to promote literacy and collaboration between their classes and schools. The students were excited to be reading using this new tool and it allowed the teacher the opportunity to have more books/novels available to the students. The other ILF e-Reader project was a collaboration between Bliss Carman Middle School Students and Liverpool Elementary French classes where the students used the e-Reader's to read French novels and then discuss the books using a collaborative wiki space.

__**Knowing Our Neighbour **__ I have worked with several elementary schools on various Knowing Our Neighbour projects. These were collaborative projects with several schools invovled at the Grade 1 level. The students and teachers used a wiki space to share their ideas and thoughts about their project. It was amazing to watch these young boys and girls actively participating in their learning. With these projects we used Voice Threads, PhotoStory`s and Wikis to share and collaborate.

__**Collaboration Using Bridgit **__ Several schools have used Bridgit to share and collaborate on lessons and themes within their classrooms. It is a wonderful way for students to be able to share and hear other students ideas. We have made available to them headsets and webcams so that they can speak and see their audience.

__**NMES News **__ Students and teachers were actively involved in creating a news broadcast that was recorded and posted onto their school website. The students were responsible for writing their own scripts and learning about the topics that they wanted to discuss with the rest of their fellow student body.

__**Photo Story **__ Many students throughout our district have used this program to create different projects on topics that were relevant to their own learning. They learned to use not only the program but also how to use cameras and microphones to tell their stories. Students from all grade levels have utilized this program.

__**Podcasting **__ This has become a tool that students and teachers are embracing to tell a story or share an idea. One project that I worked on was with high school students from Upper Miramichi River High School. The students researched and wrote the history of their school and then created a podcast that was broadcast on their school website. This was to commemorate the long history of the school as it was about to be closed as the students would move on to the new Central New Brunswick Academy.