This section is for all of the teachers that still don't know how to turn on a computer. At Barnett Shoals, starting in 3rd Grade, students use HyperStudio to create grade wide reports. In other words, an entire grade level of students work as a journalistic team to make a comprehensive, interactive, computer presentation about a specific subject. Let's say for example the third grade takes a trip to the zoo. After the trip, one classroom might be responsible for the section about mammals, another would be responsible for reptiles, another responsible for our feathered friends.
Students create professional text, then draw or scan images of the animals.
Using Robert Wagner's HyperStudio, the students make all of the information available to the school in an interactive computer program. You'll hear me say this again and again on this web site. The students of Barnett Shoals will have a definite edge over those students. All in All I could go on and on about Barnett Shoals. I've left out so much about the school that Principal Ray Clark, his staff, parents and students may be offended.