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Edward Bujak

 

HOPE Charter High School

http://www.hopecschool.org/ and http://hopecharter.blogspot.com/

 

2116 East Haines Street

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pa. 19138

267-336-2730

 

 

 

My goal is to have students develop their own mini-lessons in an electronic digital format that is virtual, dynamic, and interactive. These will be posted and available 24/7/365. I plan, along with help from some students, to create an “interactive smart board” to help engage students more actively in their own learning. I hope to also provide some digital-ink capture capabilities with the “interactive smart board” so we can save the dynamic creation of live notes.

 

I want to help students to become digital-aware critical consumers and producers of useful cross-curricular manipulatives and lessons. This can be self-sustaining with podcasts, pencasts, screencasts, Webcasts, and virtual manipulatives.

 

Math/Science Education – with computers - http://www.wolfram.com/broadcast/videos/matheducation/

 

 

In this inquiry-based format, the student will select short topics (or focused concepts) and report with an electronic product that can be viewed or played by anyone, anytime, anywhere. I will have students work individually and in teams of two on short projects to foster collegiality, community, and citizenship in creating their small projects on the “interactive smart board” for classroom activities, but also using tools to create virtual manipulatives for fellow students and future students. At all times I will require a “formal” 5-10 minute presentation on the electronic product that must include the processes used to craft the finished product – so we can all progress to higher levels. Hooking the students with technology is only the beginning as this will hopefully grow. I am excited to have the students think about their own thinking to craft useful “stuff” for other students and teachers.

 

 

 

Pulse Smartpen by LiveScribe ($200) – http://www.livescribe.com

 

Wolfram Mathematica ($49 special offer - http://wolfram.com/30minutes)

 

Headset ($20)

 

Create “interactive smart board”:

            Wimote ($40)

 Tripod ($20)

            IR pens (2 @ $8.00 each)

            Blue Tooth dongle ($30)

 

Total: $375 + S/H

 

NOTE: For this iteration, I will supplement students’ desires with personal equipment and personal software as needed.