While reading Helen Keller’s Miracle Worker, Lisa McTague had an interesting challenge on [...]]]> With six more months of school, it’s time to think about updating your teacher website, but what can you do to make it more interesting to students and teachers while using your time effectively? How about incorporating student work into your website?

While reading Helen Keller’s Miracle Worker, Lisa McTague had an interesting challenge on her website for her students. One student would use sign language to spell a word or sign a phrase while another student videotaped the sign language. Lisa then posted the video with a challenge to the students: “Send me an email telling me what the sign language video means.”

Have a look by visiting her website HERE.

 The kids didn’t get to travel to the wilds of Montana to dig, but in science class they did get to be paleontologists for [...]]]> Okay, so we’ll skip Tech Tip Tuesday today to recognize WAS teacher Sarah Gutierrez and her student teacher, Cathy Gomber, for teaching their second grade students how to narrate their fossil dig.

 The kids didn’t get to travel to the wilds of Montana to dig, but in science class they did get to be paleontologists for the day.  Their Jurassic adventure is documented in Photo Story fineness on Sarah’s website HERE.  You can double-click on the video image itself to see it full-screen.

Interested in using Photo Story with your class?  Need to know how to post a video on your Schoolwires Centricity teacher web pages?  Let Erik know, and he’ll direct you to the resources you need or even help you and your students directly!

Note: you can click the photo for a bigger image.