I loved what these students and teachers are doing! They are taking the technology skills that they learn and applying it to learn about other things and places. I think this is a great way to implement technology in the classroom!

What a wonderful way to reach beyond the classroom and integrate technology into learning!!! Do you find that all students are interested in the projects they are required to do?

What a wonderful and inspiiring glimpse into classrooms where REAL learning is taking palce--LIFE LONG LOVE OF LEARNING!!!

i was in that class six years ago and i am proud to see that our works are so inspiring.

I enjoyed the interaction with the environment. I would love to allow the students I teach to go into the community in search of comments, thoughts, and ideas that could be shared in cclass

1. Describe your initial reactions or thoughts as you watched this video.
I really enjoyed that the kids were getting hands on experience. That kind of experience is fascinating to the kids and it is an incentive to learn more. With that motivation, the teachers got the students to use technology to convey their enthusiasm for history. The technology used was video cameras and digital cameras.

2. What did you learn about technology integration from this video?
That it entices the learning experience.

3. What did you learn about pedagogy (the art of teaching) from this video?
The teachers appeared to love their job, and the kids seemed to love the learning process. The teachers integrated what they could and made it fun.

4. Do you think these types of projects are possible for you and your students? Why or why not?
I think any subject is possible to teach using technology. It only requires creativity.

I really enjoyed this video because it integrated history, geology, technology and language arts. The project was motivated by the students and they were engaged in their learning. I learned how exciting it can be for students when they are given more tools to learn information about a project they are doing.

I really enjoyed watching this clip. I love the idea of older (high school) students taking an instructional role with the younger (3rd grade) students to help them accomplish their goals. The high school students were able to demonstrate how to use different photography equipment to these youngsters so that they could actually do the photography for their new webpage. What a great way to collaborate! These 3rd graders had a great opportunity to see history come to life by taking ownership of their project and it's central question and then visiting these 2 locations to learn about their history. They had some great hands-on experiences for some "lost arts" (e.g. blacksmithing)and all of this was captured on film. I really loved the students' comments at the end about how they thought it would be "really neat" if other schools could do a similar project on a webpage so that they could all learn from each other. That's what it's all about...students learning from each other!

I would like to try and implement something like this with my students. Perhaps it could become a grade level project and each 2nd grade class could be responsible for one element of the project. We have a social studies unit on Communities that might be perfect for such a project.

The Geo-Literacy Project: Students Use Technology to Explore Their World video was amazing. Initially, this project brought back memories from when I worked at Atlantis Marine World in Riverhead, NY because we would work with local summer camps to help educate the children on the salt marsh ecosystem. The children of those camps would then create projects to share with their local communities on how conservation needs to be taken seriously (side note: a lot of the salt marshes became dumping grounds for trash and waste).

I felt that this video introduced a great concept/project to integrate cross-curriculum studies, technology, the community, and allowing students to take an active role in their education by creating a project based on self-directed inquiry. I enjoyed watching the students become engaged, excited, and in control of how they wanted their project to develop so they could correctly capture the history, ecology, resources, and wildlife of their region.

As a teacher, I hope to create a similar project with my students focusing on conservation and preserving the coastal environment. I know that junior and middle school students love hanging out at the beach, and many beaches in our area become polluted with waste and trash. This pollution not only kills native organisms but can affect the migration of various non-native organisms. I feel that if I could integrate a project similiar to the Geo-Literacy project, that students would learn more because they would become actively engaged. Also, I feel when creating a project like this, allowing the students to work with locals and high school/college students would aid in the students understanding, plus allow the students to learn from one another.

I thought this video was really cool and it was fun to watch these kids being so invested in what they were doing. I absolutely loved the high school students helping the 3rd graders with their projects. I think the more opportunities we give students to be teachers the better off they will be. After all, they say you only really know something if you can teach it. I think this is something I will strive to incorporate in my classroom if at all possible.

I am not sure this type of project would be possible for my classroom simply because of time constraints. When you have the same group of kids the entire day, like at an elementary school, you have more options for large, in-depth, on-going projects. I just can imagine how to make it work when I will have many classes of students for only a limited amount of time each day or every other day.