In order to create a truly exciting and enticing story for their 1001 Flat World Tales projects, many of our students are choosing to include alternate endings, in the style of the Choose Your Own Adventure books from the 80’s. When we started explaining how to create links between pages, and how they can create…
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Our sixth grade IT students had a very exciting day today: Not only was it the first day of a new quarter, (the first day of IT for this year), but they also got to meet a group of Year 7 students in New Zealand (and their fantastic teacher) without even leaving the classroom! Thanks…
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The International Teen Life project we’ve been working on for the last few months has recently gotten a little press. I love that the students’ work is making it into the news, but what I love even more is their comments on Mr. R’s post about the article: When I had finished reading that article,…
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Through the 1001 Flat World Tales project, our seventh graders are quickly learning that writing, to be read online, should look very different from writing to be read off-line. We realized that when reading online we need: lots of space between paragraphs clear and deliberate headings in large, bold font bullets to organize lists of…
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Over the past week or so, these issues have struck a chord with me: Miss Profe is experiencing frustration trying to figure out how web 2.0 tools can improve her students’ learning. Here at M’KIS, we are developing a clear framework for the process of IT integration to help teachers deal with the overwhelming options…
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