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Eastview Middle School aims to deepen mutual understanding between
students inside and outside of Canada, and to inspire the spirit
of globalization through ICT project.
Five teachers in charge of one hundred and twenty 12th grade students
mainly implement classes with the use of ICT in Eastview Middle
School. They plan for the curriculum of ICT class, proceed with
it and exchange their experiences and opinion.
Students in the 8th grade participated this project. Students in
International School of General Education (St. Petersburg. Russia),
Sekolah Tinggi Port Dickson (Malaysia) are also participating in
this project. They are implementing collaborative project to build
an ideal city online in class, and after the participating countries
to symbolize cooperation, the city is named as Malcanru (MalaysiaCanadaRussia
:
http://www.att.virtualclassroom.org/vc99/vc_32/). Exchanges
between students were very active.
Grade 8 students are learning about buying and selling stocks in
math and in social they are looking at how what is happening in
the news affects the prices. They will choose a stock to follow
from a news story and then predict what will happen to its value.
In the meantime, they will be using an online database developed
for this project to invest 100 000 Smoe Bucks. Students can look
at their portfolios as well as those of their classmates. The EMates
will be used to graph their results. This project is being run on
the District Intranet. We hope to include other schools in the District
this year and eventually open it up for everyone.
Our eight grade 7 science classes have already begun a project in
conjunction with Trout Unlimited the Fish and Wildlife Association.
The students are raising fish eggs that will be released into the
open water in the spring of 2000. This is a continuing project that
we plan to expand with the help of the Environmental Outdoor Education
classes. One of our goals is to develop a web site for all of the
schools in North America currently involved in the project. We would
host the website on our local provider, link to all schools involved
and then have a discussion area for students to compare what is
happening, conditions of the aquariums, health of the eggs/fish
and other concerns that may arise. We would also like to find an
expert who would be willing to answer student questions and archive
the answers on the site. This would allow for students who are not
involved in the project to follow our progress and learn from the
study as well. We plan to videotape the eggs and fish at various
stages of development . These clips will be put on the website for
other students to see and learn from. As well, we will make a video
from the presentation of the eggs to the release of the fish.
(http://www.classroomconnect.com/)
About 24 of our grade 6 students are testing the Classroom Connect
Project called AsiaQuest. The students log on to the site from school
or home to follow the researchers as they travel the Silk Road.
Their Quest is to find out if Marco Polo did indeed travel to China.
Along the way the cyclists/researchers report on the people they
meet, what they see, problems they encounter, the history, their
experiences with culture shock and interesting science stories as
well as many other interesting facts. The students can respond to
surveys and provide suggestions throughout the five weeks of the
project. The objective of this class is to provide students with
preliminary information of China before they learn Chinese history
in class. They are encouraged to share what they learn through this
project with other students.
(http://www.rdpsd.ab.ca/ev/ict/ictproject.html)
Students exchanges e-mails with other students in Canada and discuss
multiculturalism and related issues with their peers across Canada.
Through this project, they gain a new perspective on how these issues
compare across their country.
Students will be able to discuss current and relevant issues to
find out how their peers across Canada see the issues and how it
affects them in their community. This will help all students to
see what is important in other provinces and territories so that
they have a more global perspective on decisions and events across
the country.
(http://www.rdpsd.ab.ca/ev/)
Eastview Middle School's teachers plan to have students develop
a school web page to showcase our best work. Links to this will
include the CyberFair Contest, AT&T Virtual Classroom Contest
and the Communities Atlas Project. The school homepage will include
the examples of research projects done on HyperStudio and ClarisWorks.
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