• Phys Ed Dep't Winter Challenge
• Book Reviews
• Voting & Surveys
• Effective PowerPoint
• Disaster Prevention
• Student Voice
• eZ Web Pages

• Forest Trees of Maine
• French Birth Announcements
• Civil War Class Site
• Excel in Science
• Foreign Language Site
• Test Taking

The Physical Education Department wanted to challenge students to do physical activity outside of school as homework.  They wanted students to do activities in five core groups at least 3 times a week and record them via a webpage.  In addition they wanted the site to be informative as well as a place to record their activities.

Click here to view a demonstration of the site.  The original is written in PHP with a MySQL database in the background. Since PHP/MySQL requires a web server, this demo does not actually save data to a database - but is designed to show what the project looks like.

The book review site came about because some teachers felt students would be better writers if their work was published rather than just ending up in a notebook or folder somewhere.  One teacher said her students were constantly asking for recommendations as to what were good books to read.  She wanted a site where students could recommend books to other students.

Students write their reviews using a word processor, have them approved by their teacher, and then "cut and paste" them into the web interface for immediate publishing on the web.

Click here to view a demonstration of the site.  The original is written in PHP with a MySQL database in the background. Since PHP/MySQL requires a web server, this demo does not actually save data to a database - but is designed to show what the project looks like.

Throughout the year we used web based voting to encourage students to get involved in the democratic process.  Surveys and ballots were created online using the "php Easy Survey" Package.

Voting included the yearbook cover design contest and 5th grade student council elections.  Wellness surveys were scheduled for the end of the school year.

Click here to view a demonstration of the site.  Since PHP/MySQL requires a web server, this demo does not actually save data to a database - but is designed to show what the project looks like. 

Each year 8th grade social studies students take part in an iSearch project.  This culminates with students making an oral presentation to their class.  The first few years students were required to make a poster to accompany their presentation. Last year teachers introduced  PowerPoint - but found that students tried to make the PowerPoint their whole presentation rather than a visual to accompany it.

I worked with social studies classes to make the PowerPoint a suppliment to not a replacement of their oral presentation.

My theme was "Keep It Simple, Silly !"  Click here to view the PowerPoint presentation I used with the classes.  You must have PowerPoint Installed on your computer to view it.  "Click" to advance through the slides.

A common concern from teachers was that students often "lost" work when they accidently deleted something or had a hardware failure on their laptop.  We started a campaign to inform students how to backup their work to the server on a regular basic.  This was done with classroom presentations and a handout with the complete instructions.

The "Student Voice" is the school newspaper.  They wanted a web presence.  The ultimate goal is to have the newspaper staff create the web pages.  However, for this year I scanned in the final product and posted it on the web.

Click here to visit the "Student Voice".

Several teachers expressed interest in creating web pages for their classrooms but didn't want to put in the time required to learn Dreamweaver, HTML, or other web authoring tools.  I developed a simple "cut and paste" web interface that would allow teachers to quickly post to their web page.

The system is written in PHP with a MySQL database in the background. Since PHP/MySQL requires a web server, this demo does not have the ability to edit an existing web page.  You can view the manual by clicking here.

Here are links to teacher pages on the web that are being created and maintained using eZ Web Pages.
 

I was working with a "Science and Technology" course.  The majority of the class were special ed students.  We wanted the students to be able to identify local trees and to make a leaf collection.  The identification key in the booklet "Forest Tress of Maine" is great but contains much too much information on one page for these students to easily process.  I created a web page that walks the student through the identification key by pressenting only one question at a time.  A glossary is on the same page for easy reference.

Click here to visit the Forest Trees of Maine site.

One of the French teachers had used an assignment with her students for several years.  The students created their own Birth Announcement.  They had been doing these by hand and she felt they were spending more time on the design work and less time on the French.  She wanted a means where students could produce a good looking product without a lot of design time.  We taught the students how to use MS Publisher which they used for this and other projects throughout the year.

For the final presentation we had an ed tech create a web\page that was posted on the school web site for parents and relatives to see.

Click here to see the final project.

A social studies teacher wanted to do a collaborative class project on the civil war.  We decided on a web page.  At first each student had a topic to research and a short article to type up using a word processor.  We then divided the class into function groups.  Some did extended research, some collected images, some learned image editing, some learned basic HTML and web authoring software.  Each person had a job.

Although the classroom teacher and I made suggestions, the entire project was completed by the students.  Click here to view their final project.

When computers first arrived at Scarborough High School for classroom use, students used word processing, web browsers, and e-mail.  Very few students knew what Microsoft Excel was.

A chemistry teacher approached me because she felt her students were spending an enormous amount of time plotting and evaluating data collected during classroom experiments.  She was looking for a way to simplify the process.

We decided on Excel.  The approach would be:
1) Class demonstration of the main features of Excel utilizing the computer and projector.
2) A tutorial that would walk the students through the process on entering data and producing the desired graphs (charts).  The data in the tutorial was to be similar to that data they would collect but not exact.
3) The students would then collect the experimental data and apply what they learned in part 1 and 2 to produce graphs in Excel for their lab reports.

Click here to view the original tutorial.

The study center was concerned about anxiety levels of the incoming freshmen expecially around test taking.  They were looking for a fun way to introduce the concept to freshman and provide them some information as to who in the school they should contact for help or more information.

This program was created in the spring of 2002 and presented to all in coming freshman the following fall.

Click here to view the program.  The presentation is limited by the technology of 2002.

For their staff development project for 2004-2005 the SHS Foreign Language Department decided that they wanted to develop a web site for their department.

I worked with them with the original design model, I programmed the startup page, and designed the frame set for the rest of the site.  I then worked with individual department members teaching them how to use the web authoring tools, how to make buttons and edit images.

Click here to view their site.