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Not every school is fortunate enough to have a sophisticated
media lab, but California's San Gabriel High School does.
Thanks to a state 1470 grant, English and Career Education
teacher Elizabeth Farris makes good use of it.
When her ninth grade students worked through a good portion
of the Career Choices curriculum (in a year-long class), Farris
assigned them to use HyperStudio, an authoring software
program from Roger Wagner Co., to make a presentation on
something they had learned. Some focused on a career of
interest, others chose one of the topics from the text, such as
Maslow's triangle, personal profiles, "why people work." |
To develop their projects, they used CDs, DVDs, clip art, drawings and scanned pictures, all put
together in the media lab. One of the highlights came from several future firefighters who used
segments of the movie Backdraft, complete with theme music and sound effects.
Later in the year, when the students were writing their resumes (chapter eleven of Career
Choices),
Farris reminded them, "You all have computer skills." "We do?" they replied. They'd been so involved
having so much fun, that they didn't realize they were also picking up some very high-tech skills along
the way!
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