| Presenter: | Marie Booz |
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| Title: | We flattened these walls! |
| Description: | Second grade students interacted with the study of life cycles through online research and digital technologies (Tech4Learning's Pixie and MS Photostory 3) to produce (using elctronic storyboards)an improved and transformed learning environment. Then… they created a story with their new found knowledge and shared it with the world (via the school website and Voicethread). |
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| Education Level: | PK-8 |
| Content Themes: | School Improvement, 21st Century Teaching & Learning |
| Curricular Areas: | Language Arts, Art, Science |
| Story decade: | 1999-2009 |
| Story relates to: | Educational transformation |
| Meta Tags: | ISTE,digital storytelling,science,life cycles,transformation |
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