Students choose one picture abort Illinois that related to a topic about which they would like to write. The zap shot camera is used and the pictures are then transferred to a disk. Students transfer the picture to their own disk. The answer hide behind the questions using a text pop- up button. A slogan is added to the flag that describes something about Illinois.
Students add their own picture, previously taken with the zap shot camera, and credits.
Activities in this unit require critical thinking and reading, cooperation, peer tutoring, higher-level technology skills, and integrated learning. Special education students mainstreamed into the classroom also completed a folder. Lynda Frankeberger, a faculty associate who teaches keyboarding, taught the Linkway program to the fourth grade three times a week for three weeks in our computer lab in the College of Education building. During the three weeks, students were conducting some research on Illinois in the school library. After the instruction, the keyboarding and classroom teachers traveled between three rooms at Metcalf as students transferred their information to the Linkway program on the IBM network housed in the fourth and fifth grade rooms.