Web Page Design - 8th Grade Curriculum, Course Description

Educational uses of technology require students to develop higher-order thinking skills by authoring multimedia projects, designing simulations, or using visualization tools to master difficult concepts. The World Wide Web is the latest and greatest way to send ideas around the world. After learning the basics of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), students are introduced to the Adobe GoLive publishing program. While working on this program to develop their individual Web pages, students are developing critical thinking skills, while using their imagination and creativity.

In this eighth grade class, students acquire the skills needed for the high-tech work place -- not just technology skills but content knowledge, problem-solving acumen, communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to assess their work. Before learning GoLive the program we use to create a web site, students learn the basics of HTML coding.  All computers in the classroom are networked and connected to the Internet.

8th Grade Web Site Evaluation, PDF file

Exemplary 8th Grade Work

The 7 Continents

The Heart

Sharks

Christopher Columbus Project

Hurricane Project

Multimedia - 7th Grade Curriculum, Course Description

Students in this class learn the advantages of using technology to present their ideas and individuality. Multimedia technology makes a tremendous impact on helping underachieving students succeed, while overachieving students remain challenged and motivated. In class we use PowerPoint, and MovieWorks.

The Multimedia class is a great opportunity for students to showcase their skills, promote collaborations and assess what they have learned. This course accomplishes several goals:

1. Provides for a period of reflection
2. Requires students to think of the overall process
3. Forces students to articulate and verbalize what they have learned
4. Facilitates cooperative learning among peers
5. Focuses the presentation toward something that is obtainable

7th Grade Multimedia Rubric, PDF file

Exemplary 7th Grade Work

How to Draw a Cat

Canadian Provinces

Planets

Cheerleading

This year a new multimedia application was introduced to my 7th Graders.  The program is MovieWorks and the students illustrated a poem using this application.

Here are examples of Poems done in MovieWorks

The Search

A Read Aloud Poem

18 Flavors

Students in the MultiMedia course have collaborated, in teams of two, to produce the following final projects.  We hope you will enjoy them.

The Amazon RainForest

The Nine Planets

Frogs

How to import a movie into a PowerPoint presentation from United Streaming

Internet - 6th Grade Curriculum, Course Description

This class provides students with innovative technology that evolves with the rapid changes in our increasingly digital world. At Eisenhower Middle School we try to ensure that the interactive capability of the internet is used to build a strong network of involved educations, students, parents and community members. Being fluent with information technology includes using basic operating-system features, using a word processor to create a text document, and using the Internet to find information and resources.