Cunha Laptop
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The 2010 BookServer and the Digital Classroom project is supported by the Internet Archive and is facilitated by ISKME. In this research project, Deborah Cowden and her ELD class of 25 students at Cunha Middle School will have the opportunity to use all digital materials for student readings, assignments, and other studies during this school year.
The goals for the project are to explore and understand the benefits, needs, and challenges associated with using digitized books and other curricular resources, whether they are books available through the online BookServer application or elsewhere on the internet, or, textbooks and other printed materials to be scanned by the Internet Archive for the sole use of the class.
Our objectives are to support teaching and learning in class through the use of digitized books, open educational resources, and other digitized materials. Some of the research questions we may consider as we work with are:
- How does the use of BookServer and other digitized books and materials, available on student laptops, change the nature of learning in your classroom? How does it transform the perceptions about libraries?
- How will the use of digitized books and materials enable the teacher to collaborate with and support students?
- How will working this way impact student learning and success, particularly around reading and writing proficiencies?
- How might methods for working online with students in this way serve as a model for engaging with open teaching and learning content?
Contents |
ELD Course using Laptops
Materials for Internet Archive
Books available on Internet Archive site: http://www.archive.org/details/cunhaintermediateschool
Monthly Discussion Questions
Timeline:
- Summer 2010: MS Office software, internet connection, Course Management System, Debbie will use iweb and udutu, compiling online resources, start scanning books, formulate parent agreements, schedule parent night early September, send out invite late August, Debbie and Megan meeting in early August, set up partner teachers/schools to collaborate with (resources, student projects)
- Fall 2010: Parent night, Laptop Etiquette course focusing on vocab and creativity, Student Agreements, How to videos (Assessment)
- Winter 2010: Collaborating, Reading and Course work (listening, reading, and writing) using scanned books
- Spring 2011: Online Collaboration, Internet Archive collaboration and field trip, Project Presentation
RESOURCES
Resources on OER Commons: http://www.oercommons.org/browse/tag/Cunha%20ELL
Moodle Resources on OER Commons: http://www.oercommons.org/search?f.search=moodle
BookServer: http://www.archive.org/bookserver
Internet Child Safety website: http://www.internetchildsafety.net/main.html
Nueva School One-to-One Laptop Project: http://nuevaschool.org/programs/one-to-one-laptop-program
Inspiration Lane: http://inspirationlane.blogspot.com/
Collaborators
- Deborah Cowden, Cunha Intermediate School
- Brewster Kahle and Ginger Bisharat, Internet Archive
- Sandra Somera, IT Coordinator San Mateo County Office of Education
- Megan Simmons, ISKME
