Hillcrest High School 21st Century Project 200607

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Hillcrest High School 21st Century Project 2006-07

• Student-Created Products

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What Have We Accomplished?

• Our exposure to the 21st Century School project
  has been invaluable.
• We have changed our methods to incorporate web
  2.0 tools into our teaching.
• Several of our classrooms have been using blogs
  and in at least one classroom we actively use
  www.tappedin.org and wikis for classroom
  projects.
• We have students and teachers using
  www.Flickr.com and www.thinkfree.com to complete
  projects. The days of the poster board project
  are over.
• The seeds of change have been sown and as more
  teachers experiment with the new tools both the
  faculty and students will benefit.
• Samples of this classroom work follow

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Tapped In was employed in the AP and Advanced
Government/Economics classes and the AP
Psychology class. It provided unexpected
benefits to both the teacher and the
students. http//www.tappedin.org
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Tapped In includes a discussion board that
allowed us to discuss items related to our
curriculum. Students responded enthusiastically
to the addition of our Tapped In pages.
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The online chat section allowed students to work
collaboratively and to receive help from the
instructor during after-class hours
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The Advanced Placement Psychology Tapped In
Room http//www.tappedin.org
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Tapped In allowed students to collaborate on
group projects and upload their work for further
collaboration with the class. Also present in
the files section were student constructed
reviews for the Advanced Placement test.
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Benefits of Tapped In

• Created an online presence for the class.
• Tapped In contains a discussion board that
  encouraged extended discussion of classroom
  curriculum.
• The real-time chat feature allowed students to
  work together collaboratively and to get help
  from the instructor when she was in the room
  also.
• Students are better prepared for online work
  required in college courses they will take in the
  future.
• Tapped In allowed students to experiment in a
  safe environment controlled by the instructor.

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Government classes elections campaign sites wiki
each political party constructed a campaign site
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http//hchscampaignsites-2007.wikispaces.com
Each class created several political parties and
elected a president as part of their elections
project.
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Samples of Student Products The OPP
Opportunity Party- Powerpoint platform
presentation - http//hchscampaignsites-2007.wiki
spaces.com/OPPParty The Common Ground Party
Powerpoint platform presentation -
http//hchscampaignsites-2007.wikispaces.com/TheC
ommonGroundParty
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Student Campaign Site SampleCampaign Commercial
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The CARROP Party Political Platform