Technology Scrapbook

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Technology Scrapbook
Upton STLP TEAM Hardin
County
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State Recognized
http//www.hardin.k12.ky.us/upton/default.html
We are a state recognized STLP Technology team.
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Processes
Process used to recruit students Since we
are so small, every student in our school gets to
participate in integrated technology projects. 3
male and 3 female STLP Leaders, who exhibit
outstanding technical skills and motivation to
assist peers, are chosen from Fourth and Fifth
Grades. Process used to increase community
awareness of projects Completed technology
projects are put on our school web pages. WETV
segments are videotaped for school and county TV
broadcasts. PR pictures articles are placed in
school, district, and county newspapers.
Submitting this scrapbook to KDE hopefully will
increase Kentucky awareness. People have
contacted us from several other states including,
Alabama, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Utah, Kansas in
response to our web site. We have sent a
mini-library to Burundi, Africa and conducted
projects with Cherokee Indians in North Carolina
Japanese students in Sagamihara, Japan.
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Upton is on the Global School House Hotlist!
Were listed in ProTeacher for our
Christmas Around the World Web
page http//www.hardin.k12.ky.us/upton/Christmas_
world.html It appears on this page in the
ProTeacher Directory http//www.proteacher.com/16
0030.shtml
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Community Projects
UNITED NATIONS DONATION / QUIK CAM FOR
WESTERN Our sister STLP Team from Western
Elementary displayed their 99 Technology Project,
RQUEST INTERNET MAGIC, at the KETC Conference in
Louisville. They explained how they put
integrated questions linked to internet sites
with information to answer them on their school
web site. In a years time, they introduce
students and teachers to over 100 different
internet sites. They sold a collection of RQUEST
questions at the conference, to which we helped
contribute. 175.00 dollars from the proceeds
were sent to the UN to help the Kosovo Refugees.
The rest were used to purchase a Quik Cam for
Western so we could conduct video net meetings
with each other.
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Training Others
Our STLP Team members compose and bookmark weekly
RQUEST questions. In a years time they expose
teachers and peers to over 100 different
integrated curriculum and childrens favorite
Internet sites. They also help students create
additions to our school web site, assist peers
with student e-mail multimedia presentations,
help conduct Net Meetings, and work with each
other on WETV broadcasts. Upton STLP members
collaborate, as well as all other students, to
assemble research projects for our end of year
technology fair.
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Technical Assistance
STLP Members help clean the schools
computers,and learn on the Job training
helping Miss Connie keep our computers humming.
They help teachers solve computer problems with
advice and assistance. Individuals hook up the
Whiz Kids computer program for their
practices after school.
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Classroom Instruction Assistance
They have designed computer signs and
banners for teachers and the librarian, located
web sites for curriculum integration, conducted
Net Meeting, displayed and explained
Technology Fair projects at the PARENT EXPO for
Southern Hardin County.
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Future STLP Projects
We are becoming Global Learners. Our home
page has versions in five languages and includes
the Alta Vista Translator site to assist us
in accomplishing our goals. Our plans for future
STLP Projects for next year include a global
collaboration project learning how to use AVID
CINEMA to include video on our web pages and
improve our WETV broadcasts.
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Local, District State Recognition
) Region 2 Student
Technology Showcase
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, Ky.
We Are the Jetsons!
Upton Western STLP Teams interviewed each
other students from Sagamihara, Japan, then
collaborated in Net Meeting to produce a brochure
sharing their Japanese friends each others'
Favorite Things. Their technology project was
selected to be displayed at the KYTLC (Kentucky
Technology and Learning Conference) in the spring.
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KYTLC Kentucky Technology and Learning Conference

We Are The Jetsons! Upton Western
Elementary used regular mail, e-mail, video
e-mail, video tapes and Net Meeting to learn
about students in Sagamihara, Japan and each
others favorite things. Upton Western STLP
Teams at their individual schools, which are 25
miles apart, shared a Microsoft Word brochure
file while in Net Meeting, to make a folder
listing the results of their surveys. Because
they could see and hear each other during their
communication, they named their project--We Are
The Jetsons! Their project was displayed at the
KYTLC conference in Louisville in the spring.
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Friends of STLP Award 99
Upton
Family Reunion Upton STLP students nominated
the Upton Family from Alabama and Georgia for the
KETC Conference Friends of STLP Award, for their
visit and resulting Upton Family Reunion during
Upton Days. The family donated a monetary gift to
the school, which was used to establish the Upton
Pioneer Spirit Awards. Students who exhibit
outstanding citizenship and character traits will
receive the awards at the end of each school
year. THE UPTON FAMILY RECEIVED A FRIENDS OF STLP
AWARD AT THE KETC CONFERENCE.
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Sonora First Baptist Church
Fellowship Sunday School Class
The Brandons Receive Gary
English Books from Upton Hunter
Along with Western Elementary, we also
nominated The Fellowship Sunday School Class of
the Sonora Baptist Church and Gary Hunter of the
Follett Book Company for their help in sending a
Mini-library to our missionary keypals, The
Brandons, in Burundi, Africa. THEY WERE
RECOGNIZED WITH THE FRIENDS OF STLP AWARD AT THE
KETC CONFERNCE.
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Friends of STLP 2000
Upton Family
Mrs. Martin Mrs. Mayer For
Friends of STLP 2000 we submitted five
nominations. We chose the Upton Family again for
their second school visit and donation to our
Technology program. Secondly, we honored
Western parent, Mrs. Vickie Martin, for
arranging our technology visits with her friend,
Mrs. Laura Mayer. We nominated Mrs. Mayer and
her English Class in Sagamihara, Japan for their
year long participation in our We Are the
Jetsons! Technology Project.
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Friends of STLP 2000
Dr. Jones
Mrs. Jenkins We also
nominated Dr. Stanley Jones from NASA for helping
us learn how to conduct KTLN teleconferences.
And we honored Mrs. Janice Jenkins for her
assistance in promoting the sale of our
RQUEST Book with elementary faculties in Meade
Co., Ky. ALL WERE RECOGNIZED WITH FRIENDS OF
STLP AWARDS AT THE KETC CONFERNCE.