Industrial technology students enjoy creating their digital self-portraits, importing them into ClarisWorks draw, and adding computer art and a greeting in Spanish. Students learned to access their personal server space far better than expected. Sixth grade students have the instruction as another part of media center orientation. Problems have been very minimal. Students know they need to save their files and are generally conscientious about maintaining their Capstone folders.
Teachers generally schedule media center and lab time well inadvance.
The Middle school house concept makes it easy to track who has completed each portion of the standard For example, keeping track of 3 seven grade houses is far easier than monitoring 12 separate sections. The class of 2004, 8th grade students in September 2000, will be the first to complete the Capstone portfolio using Hyperstudio. Portfolios will include samples of word processing, a database, chart and graph, their bibliography and digital self-portrait. . With the exception of students who were not enrolled when parts of the project were taught, all students would be required to include all portions in their portfolio. Assessment of the portfolio continues to be a debate.