Project Possibilities

When deciding on your project, select an idea that can be implemented this school year. Retention of the projector rests on the completion of this project! You are also going to be asked to upload an artifact (a Word document, link to web page, PowerPoint presentation, etc.) to the ETR Teacher Exchange. By the end of the day, you should start the Visions Project Proposal: Social Studies Strand.

PowerPoint
Now that you have that shiny new projector, for many of you this is where you are going to want to start. That is great! Using PowerPoint is a great first step. Make sure to attend one of the PowerPoint sessions on Tuesday.

Web-Based Project
You will need to already have some basic web design knowledge, but you too can create a web-based project that you can use for your students. This idea is wide open, you can use an existing standards-based lesson plan or create something new. For Social Studies the amount of available resources is vast!

Possibilities include:

• A lesson that utilizes one of the many databases on the web (Example: Searchin' About a Revolution)
  
• Having students examine historical photographs (Example: Civil War Photographs Activitiy - Original Lesson | My Adaptation)
  
• Searching through poems or lyrics
  

WebQuest
This project type used to be amazingly time consuming, plus you needed a moderate amount of tech experience. Well, that is no longer the case. The creation of GardenQuest (officially available Sept. 1) will walk you through the process of creating a WebQuest AND take care of the techy stuff that has stymied teachers for years. Plus, with the WebQuest Design Patterns, selecting the type of project you are looking for is much easier.

Video Project
You can spend your time setting up a project where your students create a video.

Other
This list is obviously incomplete. If you have another idea, please pitch it to Dan, Ken, or Jim.