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Teachers, administrators, and Apple Distinguished Educators representing schools, districts, and national organizations created the exhibits showcased on the Apple Learning Interchange. The exhibits reflect authentic practices in teaching and leadership and highlight virtual field trips and educational events that engage educators in discussions around improvement in education.
Elementary School Exhibits
Miwok Legend Storytelling iMovies
In this project, students learn the critical attributes of legends and the elements of storytelling. They create a storytelling video that combines video of themselves telling the story with illustrations and images.
We've Got Mail!
Colorado kindergarten students create stationary and send and receive mail in this engaging exhibit. They use word processing and KidPix™ to integrate language arts and social studies while communicating with family and friends.
Preserving Memories: Creating iPhoto Books
Kindergarten children interview their grandparents or other older adults about their memories of Kindergarten or First Grade. The results were used in iMovies, iPhoto books and other technology related products.
Plentiful Penguins
In this exhibit, a kindergarten teacher demonstrates how she uses technology resources: word processing, computer draw programs, and Internet research in an integrated unit on penguins. The Plentiful Penguins exhibit is one of many exhibits presented by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
Core Democratic Values LIVE
This unit is a cross-grade level activity between senior government students and fifth grade social studies students. Teams of students created desktop movies depicting the concept of a core democratic value and the relationship of that value to their own lives.
4H Children's Garden Kids' Tour
The 4-H Children's Garden Kids' Tour is a model of elegant integration of virtual and real worlds, visually rich, filled with interactivity, explorations, stories, garden sign language, other fun learning experiences for K-6, and tips for teachers, deeply integrated with the real garden.
Baby Signs for Pre-K Children
This lesson portrays the use of baby signs to stimulate language in nonverbal students in a Pre-K special needs class. The instructor produced videos of students engaged in their favorite activities, then showed them the videos and encouraged them to comment on what they were seeing to stimulate them to speak.
Jobs for Juniors - Helping to Make the World Go 'Round!
This interdisciplinary unit is designed to increase students' understanding about the importance of service related jobs in our community. They learn basic economic principles, define and differentiate between goods and services, investigate the many human resources of a community, conduct research about municipal jobs, and create infomercials for their specific helper job in the classroom.
Poetry Sings with Early Readers
This exhibit highlights a student-created song and poetry book that brings early literacy skills to kindergarten children.
Water, Water Everywhere
The walls of West Tisbury School come down as third grade students leave the classroom to explore the environment around them and share their knowledge with the world through a website.
Energy Explorations
Students are introduced to the idea that energy is all around them by observing the properties of an inflated solar balloon. Classroom inquiry is used to help students develop and evaluate evidence for explanations to questions.
Comparing East and West Coast Estuaries
This exhibit demonstrates how students in California used Quicktime VR, iMovie, and an interactive teleconference with an NOAA project to compare East and West Coastal Estuaries.
Traveling to Mexico - A Technology Integration Lesson
Sixth grade students develop a greater understanding of the people, history, landscape, landmarks, and way of life in Mexico by creating a travel brochure using Internet research and technologies.
Quilting and Geometry-Patterns for Living
In this exhibit, a sixth-grade teacher from Jerome, Idaho uses multiple forms of technology to introduce her students to symmetry and tessellations through the use of quilt patterns. Her students explore the relationship between geometry and quilting to develop higher-order thinking skills. Using Web Quests, software, and multiple community resources, the students design and create unique quilt blocks.
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Middle School Exhibits
Celebrating Our Heroes: Telling Their Stories with iMovie
Using digital tools to enhance the understanding and concepts of heroes in the middle and high school curriculum. The heroes curriculum is often taught in Language Arts and/or Social Studies. Students can use iMovie and iPhoto to involve not only their classroom, but parents and the community. This exhibit moves the audience beyond the classroom teacher.
iMovie to See, Do and Learn in Science and Physical Education
The purpose of this exhibit is to explore lessons that utilize iMovie to focus students on science and physical education concepts that can be abstract and difficult to grasp or measure. Visual explorations can make these concepts concrete and meaningful.
Digital Photoessays
This middle-school teacher from California challenged his all-girl technology class to create photoessays using digital cameras and a variety of publishing applications. This exhibit shows the power of technology in an urban school.
The National Math Trail
The National Math Trail Internet project provides teachers with a tool to motivate students with real-world examples of mathematics as well as an opportunity to develop understandings of concepts and practice of skills. Technology can be integrated into the project at beginner, intermediate, or advanced levels.
Poetry and E-Motion
The West Tisbury School wove together poetry, world languages, animations, movies, art, and music with a touch of math in a way that interactively engages students in the process of learning. The project makes each student's learning immediate and vivid.
Traveling to Mexico - A Technology Integration Lesson
Sixth grade students develop a greater understanding of the people, history, landscape, landmarks, and way of life in Mexico by creating a travel brochure using Internet research and technologies.
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High School Exhibits
Renaissance: Rebirth to Revolution
This exhibit features a quarter long sixth grade thematic unit at Lincoln Magnet School. The students' culminating research project is presented at a Renaissance Faire by portraying the characters and events from that time period.
Web Design for the Real World: The Miami-Dade Public Schools Web Academy
This "mini-exhibit" depicts how Miami-Dade County Public Schools, working with Apple Computer's Web Communication and Design curriculum, created a Web Design Academy. High school students and teachers describe their experiences as they learn not only how to design web pages, but how to work with actual clients.
Race Rocks
This exhibit describes how Pearson College of the Pacific set up an online virtual observation post at Race Rocks island. Three QuickTime video streams are available 24/7 from this island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca just one mile south of the Southern most point of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Science as a Catalyst
This "hands-on" method of teaching allows students to model work performed by professionals in a biotechnology laboratory. Using QuickTime virtual reality, you can watch as students conduct a science experiment that demonstrates the relationship between fungus and disease.
Student Leadership
This exhibit focuses on how state competitions in multimedia, Web design, and video projects for student leaders throughout Kansas are changing the way students learn and the way teachers teach.
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
In this four-week unit, students in ninth grade Biology use a variety of research methods (text book reading, web-site investigation, hands-on specimens, role-playing, and group work) to discover the natural history of the gray wolf.
Core Democratic Values LIVE
This unit is a cross-grade level activity between senior government students and fifth grade social studies students. Teams of students created desktop movies depicting the concept of a core democratic value and the relationship of that value to their own lives.
Conexiones - The Power of iMovie
This exhibit demonstrates how the Conexiones project at Arizona State University has utilized iMovie to increase both educational and occupational opportunities among traditionally under served minority students. Working on iMac computers outfitted with AirPort Wireless Cards and iMovie, the students are assigned various projects that require them to fulfill extensive production and postproduction tasks in order to create public service announcements.
The Underground Railroad: A New Deal Art Project Digital Story
This exhibit presents a multimedia project that focuses on public murals sponsored by Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. The murals are essentially painted stories that help students learn to identify, extract, and re-tell the story in digital format, a Digital Story.
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Higher Education Exhibits
Learning From Children's Voices & Improving Science Education
This exhibit highlights efforts of one university to shift the focus of preparing tomorrow's science teachers. While many begin with the content and skills required to teach science well to children, this project began with children's ideas expressed through iMovies and reflections on how to appropriately guide children's thinking.
Educators as Guiding Partners: The ThinkQuest Approach
Designed for college faculty engaged in teacher-preparation activities, this exhibit explains and demonstrates the ThinkQuest Guiding Partner Approach (GPA) - a student-centered, constructivist pedagogy for integrating technology into classroom activities. Learn how educators have successfully modeled this approach with pre-service students.
Anatomy Revealed ™
Anatomy Revealed ™ is an interactive, multimedia computer program for learning and review of practical human anatomy and its clinical application. Using a unique layering process, detailed human prosections demonstrate directly the relationship between structures found at different depths of dissection.
Predicting Spectra for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is an important part of any organic chemistry course. This is a demonstration of the actual web site that was completed in 2000 for Dr. Thomas J. Ippoliti, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Saint Thomas (UST), Minnesota, USA, by the staff of the Center for Multimedia Development (CMD). The CMD is a member of the non-profit organization, the New Media Centers (NMC).
It's Elementary: Total Immersion in a Boston Public School
This one-year total immersion graduate school program is designed to educate graduate students to teach in city schools. Each year teacher interns receive their initial license and the master's degree in education, but more importantly they leave their teacher education with real knowledge of children, city schools, and the community.
Phonetics Website
Intended for students of phonetics, linguistics, and foreign language, the Phonetics Website contains an anatomy tutorial and animated libraries of English and Spanish sounds. Available for each sound is an animated explanation of how the sound is produced, and video-audio of the sound spoken in context.
Francais Interactif
Francais Interactif is a unique first year French program developed at the University of Texas. With the latest hypermedia technology, Francais Interactif helps you explore the French language and culture by following the lives of real UT students who participated in the UT Summer Program in Lyon, France. The UT students will introduce you to their French host families, their French university, and their lives in France.
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Leadership Exhibits
Dr. Helen Barrett on Electronic Portfolio Development
This exhibit covers the process of developing electronic portfolios in education, with an emphasis on using common software tools and Apple multimedia technology.
If You Give a Kid an iBook
Many schools are looking at one-to-one laptop deployments, trying to assess if the educational impact is worth the monetary investment. This exhibit highlights what can happen when wireless mobile technology is placed in the hands of students 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from September to May and how the culture and climate of one midwest high school is enhanced. Read on to find out what happens "If You Give a Kid an iBook."
Teaching Methods
In this exhibit on Teaching Methods, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards presents a small sample of the videos from Digital Edge Project for review, discussion and commentary. Each page includes one or more video clip, text by the authoring teacher describing the context of the lesson and reflecting upon the clip, and may include commentary by other NBCTs and university faculty.
The CAESL Science Assessment Leadership Academy
The CAESL Academy is a three-year professional development leadership institute that focuses on science assessment in public schools.
International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
Welcome to ISTE in Action! The International Society for Technology in Education is a nonprofit professional organization with a worldwide membership of technology-using educators. As you explore ISTE in Action! you will discover a wealth of resources.
Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3)
Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) initiative awards grants to consortium partners that are working to transform teacher preparation programs. PT3 grantees are developing models, tools, support and incentives to help faculty make the change to technology-infused teaching within schools of education and throughout the campus.
Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership (TICAL)
TICAL is a one-stop portal for administrative leaders providing quick access to a variety of technology resources including research, discussion groups, current articles, and an electronic briefcase filled with tips and techniques.
The 12 Principals of Educational Technology: Exploring the NETS•A
During the 2001-2002 school year, twelve K-12 principals participated in the 21st Century Leadership Project, a professional development experience focused on the National Educational Technology Standards for School Administrators (NETS•A). This exhibit provides an overview of the project and an introduction to the NETS•A from the view of practicing school administrators.
The 12 Principals of Educational Technology: Leadership and Vision
During the 2001-2002 school year, twelve K-12 principals participated in the 21st Century Leadership Project, a professional development experience focused on the National Educational Technology Standards for School Administrators (NETS•A). This exhibit focuses on strand 1 of the NETS•A: Leadership and Vision.
Teacher Quality: Ensuring Excellence in Every Classroom
The March 2002 Satellite Town Meeting explores how communities around the country provide teachers the tools they need to improve instruction and know their subject areas well in order to help all students succeed.
NH PT3 Project - Great Mentors!
One of the goals of this project, to expand collaborative partnerships to enable higher education to emulate technology rich strategies used in schools which improve teaching and learning, has been addressed by identifying mentor teachers in K-12 schools that pre-service students can visit, observe, and emulate.
Leading in a Culture of Change
Nancy Sellers interviews Dr. Michael Fullan, the Dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Dr. Fullan has written and spoken extensively about the change process.
Videography for Educators
This exhibit was designed to assist classroom teachers and staff developers in the production of videos to enhance their curriculum development and professional development strategies.
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