High School
- Carolyn Curtis - Solution
- Ms. Curtis tackled her problem using Palm Pilots loaded with the software miniMusic. She was able to give almost every student a hand held device with the software suite which allowed her students to practice pitch on their own while she worked with the choir at large.
Review her problem. Tags: High School, Middle School, Music, Hand Held Devices
- Dawn Stark - Problem
- Dawn Stark is a high school Japanese teacher at Everett High School in the Lansing School District. She saw a disconnect between her students and authentic learning of a foreign language and the ability to achieve Michigan standards for teaching Japanese.
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- Dawn Stark - Solution
- Ms. Stark decided to use email to start a correspondence between students in an English class in Japan and the students in her Japanese class in Michigan. By emailing back and forth, both her and her Japanese counterpart were able to enforce grammar and vocabulary each class was currently studying, while providing authentic conversations between the students. The students were also exposed to Japanese culture in a way not possible in her classroom in Lansing and were more likely to tackle higher level language skills than in normal instruction.
Review her problem. Tags: Foreign Language, High School, Email, Digital Imaging, Standards
- J.D. Birchmeier - Problem
- JD Birchmeier and Steve Dickie are high school physics teachers at Divine Child High School in Dearborn, MI. Mr. Birchmeier and Mr. Dickie find that their students have a hard time conceptualizing the concept of motion because of a lack of frame of reference.
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- J.D. Birchmeier - Solution
- Using the software Logger Pro and video cameras, Birchmeier and Dickie were able to overlay particle models over the top of video of moving bodies to better illustrate the concept of motion and the forces that control motion.
Review their problem. Tags: High School, Science, Video, Physics, Graphs
- Keith Forton - Problem
- Keith Forton is a science teacher at Traverse City Central High School in Traverse City, MI. Mr. Forton found that his students are good at plotting or finding points on a graph, but often have difficulty reading and interpreting graphs.
See his solution. Tags: High School, Science, Physics, Graphs
- Keith Forton - Solution
- Mr. Forton's solution is to use video capture to acquire video of simple and complex examples of motion. He then has the students use the software World in Motion to plot the and create a graph of the motion. This way students can see the translation of energy and other hard to conceptualize physics principles.
Review the problem. Tags: High School, Science, Video, Physics, Graphs
- Miriam Taylor - Problem
- Miriam Taylor is a social studies teacher at Thornapple Kellogg High School in Middleville, MI. Ms. Taylor had a three fold problem which involved getting her AP Government students excited about covering content during the summer, maintaining a single source for the content and effectively communicating with students and parents about the class.
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- Miriam Taylor - Solution
- Ms. Taylor used a virtual learning environment to create a central location for her students to go to get assignments. She started with Blackboard, but moved on to creating her own content rich site using Microsoft FrontPage. Besides housing the coursework Ms. Taylor also added a discussion board and chat environment to facilitate interaction between her and the class.
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