Technology Night!

My school is hosting its first Technology Night tonight!  This is something I have been wanting to do for a long time and it's finally happening.  It's such a great chance to build a community for the students to share their work, thoughts, and receive feedback.  Each teacher participating has picked student projects to show and the teacher and students will discuss how they went about creating the project and show examples and possibly teach a part of the project to viewers. 

I think it's also important to celebrate the achievements students make and some of the projects I've seen this year have blown me away! I remember a teacher saying in one class that they've struggled to get a student to turn in assignments and was amazed to see the work they were doing on this particular project.  There was another instance, where a student wasn't all that into the project and when we told them they could add pictures of themself using the camera on the computer and they were all for it!  It turned into a great project about the student teaching how to balance chemical equations. 

Tonight we are featuring projects on:
1. Persuasion movies created in imovie by an 8th grade Language Arts class
2. Six Kingdom Comics created in Comic Life by a 7th grade Life Science class
3. Victorian Era podcasts created in Garageband by a 7th grade Language Arts class
4. Making Music created in Garageband by an 8th grade Band class
5. Balancing Chemical Equation comics created in Comic Life an 8th grade Physical Science class
6. Invention podcasts created in Garageband by a 6th grade Social Studies class
7. 1920's Digital Scrapbook created in PowerPoint by a 6th grade Social Studies class
8. Digital Poetry Posters created in Glogster by a 7th grade Language class