Stacy Williams was asked to be the 6th grade tech teacher at her school and didn’t have much experience, actually she had no training at all. She now teaches art classes through technology. The first project her students do is an Ipages brochure. The students create introductions about themselves so that they can learn about each other. The Google sketch up house project seems to be the students’ favorite project. Students create their dream home based on certain criteria they have to meet. Stacy usually demos the program and gives examples before allowing the students to do it themselves. Currently her students are working on creating a commercial or a full movie. Students work together and write their own script. At the end all the movies are played for the class and they choose which one is their favorite. These activities allow for limitless amounts of creativity and working together.
Stacy’s advice on technology is just to jump in and learn as you go. She was thrown into it this way and thinks that it is the best way to do it!
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