Students can graph science project measurements, survey or election results, in projects which integrate mathematics and content area instruction. Students can write their own story problems in Claris Works or Kid Pix, and illustrate them with clip art. Students can create autobiographical time lines in the drawing program of Claris Works, noting important events in their lives which they personalize with digitized photographs and drawings. These items are as indispensible as crayons and folders to students in the technological classroom. Projects can be shared between classrooms, and last year's student work is an excellent introduction to next year's thematic unit.
Classroom technology continues to evolve, shaping instructional practice as it grows.
We, as teachers, can be a part of this evolution. Whenever we create a new use for the computer we have in our classroom, and share our inventions with our colleagues, we are contributing to the technological revolution which will define the classroom of the future. Some of these projects are adapted from Instructor Magazine. Any other use requires written permission of the author. Copyright 1999-2000 by Julianne Hammink.