Will demonstrate the creation and maintenance of the website for Tech 2003. Students will attempt to photograph the students and their work and post web pages from the State Capitol.

Third grade students have been using PDA’s to generate their pen pal letters and for other language arts activities. Students will demonstrate how to use the PDA’s to type, exchange, print, and publish their documents.

Bloomington Public Schools Technology Department will demonstrate handheld iPaq technology, use of digital video, robotics, and green screen technology.

Brimfield Community District 309 is in attendance during Veteran’s Day, yet feels it is important that we honor our veterans and learn about the historical impact our war veterans have made. Our project focused on developing community pride by highlighting our area veterans’ contribution; while at the same time, providing our students an opportunity to serve their community. Efforts include, but are not limited to creating a website link to our student-created district website for veterans. This site will use digital mapping and database creation to map nine area cemeteries, identifying veterans’ grave markers, and brief histories.

Eighth grade students at Charleston Middle School are developing a cloud digital image library. The collection will be submitted to the National Science Digital Library as a result of the participation of CMS in the Atmospheric Visualization Collection Project (Argonne National Laboratory).

Lights! Camera! Action! Watch student-created video and presentations using some of the latest digital editing technologies and software applications. Students will demonstrate their technical savvy with two multi-media presentations.

Students from Edison School in District 205 will demonstrate their use of the Alphasmart across curricular areas. In Language Arts, they will show the results of a webquest, and written narratives using digital pictures and Alphasmarts. They are eager to show their knowledge and use of the digital camera. Demonstrating on-site, they will conduct interviews taking pictures and immediately creating an addition to the classroom web page, “Our visit to Tech 2003.”

High school students have created digital video documentaries. The DVD entitled, “Lessons from Salem” parallels the Salem witch trials and modern parallels of intolerance. Another DVD entitled, “The Life of the Ball Turret Gunner” features students interviewing a local veteran who was a ball turret gunner in World War II.

Our students produce learning materials for classroom use. These are three part cards especially made for the Montessori curriculum. These learning materials are designed to be used by teachers for small group instruction and then by students as assigned work. All areas of the curriculum are covered.

This year, the fifth grade students at Germantown Elementary School participated in a unit of study on the human body. The unit incorporated the use of technology in an effort to engage the students in the learning process. During their study, students immersed themselves in literature found on the Internet pertaining to the human body. The information was then utilized to create technology-based projects. These projects will be showcased at Tech 2003.

Students become space explorers engaged in investigating various topics about the solar system, in a problem based format using technology. A first and third grade classroom pair up via the Internet from two elementary schools. Third graders assist first graders with research about the solar system through email and video conferencing.

The fifth graders will develop a presentation about an inventor and/or inventions on PowerPoint which will become a slide show presentation. The students will locate, organize and utilize information from various sources and communicate these ideas in a well-organized and coherent writing using correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization and structure.

The project’s goal was to learn what technology was available for film making and to inspire others. Using a simple video camera, clips were transferred to a computer hard drive using Firewire. A program called iMovie was used to change color and add transitions.

Come join two 5th graders as they display the learning process they went through during a unit called, “Transformational Geometry by Using the Inquiry Process.” Inspired by MC Escher, the students studied and created tesselations by hand. Then, they used the software program, TesselMania Deluxe, to further their exploration. In culmination, the students scripted, taped, and edited an iMovie on their learning process.

Using Macromedia Flash, students will be explaining how a computer works. They will also go over the necessary parts that make a working computer.

View student-created animations utilizing “Blender” and Maxon’s “Cinema 4DXL” software to create 3D animations to personalize and give dynamic appeal to a video production or website.

Adam is a student with special needs. He is quadriplegic who needs one-on-one RN help for the entire school day, as well as at night time. Adam will demonstrate how technology enhances him both academically and socially. Technology also made it possible for Adam to be successful in the regular classroom and be listed on the honor roll.

Why use Digital Photography? Digital photography is used a great deal in our school system by a variety of people. What role does digital photography play in the educational process? We have some answers. Come and visit our display!

Our Introduction to Business class was assigned a video creation project. They were to design a commercial of a popular soft drink. The end result were two video projects highlighting the product in different ways. Students from the elementary school will demonstrate the use of technology with academic programs. Using timeline software and presentation programs, students will take information about historical events of Illinois and arrange this knowledge in a presentation format.

All-School Memory CD -- students are in the process of creating a memory CD that includes pictures, video, music, and narration of the many activities at PHS during the school year. The students are responsible for the entire business process from creation to sales.

Our school will demonstrate two projcts. “RespectQuest”... The Advisory program at Prairie Junior High is run through a WebQuest (www.dist126.k12.il.us/prairieweb/advisory.htm). Each advisory is responsible for: 1) researching, planning and planting a garden on a reserved section of the garden site, 2) composting organic materials that will benefit the garden all over again, and 3) troubleshooting garden problems and finding solutions to probable causes. Both staff and students have learned a great deal about teamwork, collaboration and mutual respect. “WebClub 126”...Web Club 126 is composed of 5-8th grade students from all four District 126 schools who assist the Tech Facilitator and Tech Advisor in creating interactive web pages for their school’s website (www.dist126.k12.il.us/prairieweb/index.htm).

Our Man on the Moon: Project Cernan @ Proviso Township High Schools. 1952 Proviso graduate Eugene “Gene” Cernan went on to become an astronaut. Project Cernan is an attempt to connect the Proviso community of today with the remarkable achievements of “The Last Man on the Moon” and to inspire our students to succeed.

The Mural Project is an ongoing interdisciplinary project (two years thus far) incorporating work from students in several different areas across the curriculum. Students from areas of art, history, technology and ESL classes have been doing research based on a large 130’x20’ mosaic mural on the west facade of the school building. The mural was created by a famous American Indian artist in 1959. The website created for this project will be displayed as well as photos of the rededication to the mural at our annual Art Fair. Student-created calendars depicting different aspects of the mural will be distributed.

Students in 8th grade Music Appreciation study the different musical eras by participating in MusicLand Webquest. Students use the Internet to locate information necessary to complete their group project, MusicLand Theme Park. Students will demonstrate how they use the Webquest website and show a PowerPoint of student samples.

Students at St. Mary School begin learning PowerPoint in 7th grade. One student will demonstrate her project, “All About Me!” Another student will present his Illinois Constitution Review in a Jeopardy game format. A third student will display her State History Fair Presentation on the Susan G. Koman Foundation.

We’ll be demonstrating music demos -- recording midi and audio to computer and then editing to video with Cakewalk software. We also use Aurelia software for ear training. We’ll demonstrate web design -- students will demonstrate projects created in class using HTML, JavaScript, and cascading style sheets.

Using the Internet and e-mail, the History/Technology Club at WMS created a Tribute to the Heroes and Victims of 9/11. A PowerPoint presentation was the focal point of an all-school assembly that also honored community emergency service personnel and members of the military.