My advanced computer users then download the photos, select, crop, and save in jpeg format to be used on our web page, in PowerPoint presentations, and in HyperStudio stacks. Web page creation is taught to my advanced students who help create the pages of our School Tour and Special Happenings on our school web site. Every student produced an individual book report on HyperStudio incorporating digital photos and graphics. Advanced students tutor their peers. Using the Internet as a resource we are developing an A-Z book of famous North Carolinians.
Some students create slide shows in cooperative groups.
PowerPoint presentations are created to document at least one of our class trips. This year students will insert our own photos into the Raleigh Power Point slides created by last years class using resources off the Internet. Photos of last years' Quail Propagation project were put into a Power Point presentation to introduce new 4th grade students to the process. Students produced unique graphic organizers on the various industries and attractions in the Piedmont area of North Carolina using Inspiration software. The entire class participated in a web chat about turtles with NC Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores through ECU Outreach program.