Teacher: Barb Sclafani

Grade: 2

Mentor:
Tara Panigutti
(Fall 2001)

 

Mentor:
Greta Geer
(Spring 2002)

Development of Barb Sclafani's class web site to illustrate writing standards covered in second grade.

Barb Sclafani participated in a 2001 UVM summer course on electronic portfolios. During this time, she created a template for a class web page project that would demonstrate student writing standards at the second grade level.  Ms. Sclafani worked with a UVM mentor, Tara Panigutti, during the Fall semester of 2001 and began to put these ideas into action. When Greta Geer became her mentor during the Spring 2002 semester, Mrs. Sclafani was anxious to continue work on this project.  Greta was successful in helping Mrs. Sclafani achieve this goal.
 

Web Site:
http://www.bsdvt.org/Schools/Wheeler/Teams/bsclafani/
eportfolio0102/2ndgradeportfolio.html

Inteview: (double click on image below to start)

Teacher:
Bob Abbey and Jen Tremblay

Grade: 3

Mentor: 
Kristen Scrivens
(Spring 2002)

Goals/Project Description:
The 2002 Winter Olympics were underway when Kristen began work at Flynn Elementary. At the same time, students in Bob Abbey’s third grade class were involved in an Olympics event of their own at Flynn Elementary School. 

Mr. Abbey asked Kristen to help him develop a site that documented the school's Olympic events at Flynn, the Flyyn Olympics. With Kristen's helps, student designed web pages sections to document the Flynn Olympics. She also helped students develop of their class web page. 

Kristen created the template for the Flynn Olympics site and worked with small groups of students after school to create other areas of their class web site.  Mr. Abbey asked his students to write biographies for the class site, and to create a page called About Our Teacher.  Mr. Abbey's goal was to  encourage his students to assume ownership in the design and content of the class web site.  During the Spring 2002 semester, Kristen also worked with Jan Tremblay's students during computer lab time. Mrs. Tremblay's students developed a web page about themselves using a template that Kristen helped design.

Web Sites:
http://www.bsdvt.org/Schools/Flynn/Teams/Abbey/
olympics/olympics2.htm

http://www.bsdvt.org/Schools/Flynn/Teams/Tremblay/default.htm

Interview: (double click on image below to start)

Grade: 4 

Mentor:
Allison Devoe
(Fall 2001)

Mary Dee, a grade four-five classroom teacher at Flynn Elementary,  wanted to take the introductory web page skills she learned in a summer PT3 workshop on electronic portfolios and apply them by developing a web site that outlined the PASS science assessment curriculum for grades K-5.  Allison DeVoe was hired as a mentor to assist Ms. Dee with this project.  During the semester, Allison helped Ms. Dee scan information and link each grade level assessment to her web site.  Allison helped her create .html files and link them together.  Mary Dee hopes that from this framework,  each grade level teacher will embellish the standards with examples of teacher lesson plans that meet these standards. 

Web Site:
http://www.bsdvt.org/Schools/Flynn/DeeWeb/pass/

Teachers:
Donna Sullivan 
   MacDonald
Denise Haggerty
Dale Wright

Grades:
Media Center, 1, 5

Mentor:
Ashley Steele
(Spring 2002)

Goals/Project Description:
Several teachers at Orchard School indicated an interest to work with a UVM student mentor during the 2002 spring semester.  Teachers expressed a variety of needs.  Donna Sullivan MacDonald, the school's librarian, manages a mini-lab of computers in the library.  Ms. MacDonald collaborates daily with teachers concerning technology applications to support units of study and requested a mentor to help with requests that range from Internet searches to creating HyperStudio projects for student presentations. 

Denise Haggerty, a grade one teacher, expressed an interest in learning more about how technology can be used at a first grade level.  She also wanted to develop a class web page that linked to the school's home page.  Ashley worked with Denise to develop this web site.  Ashley helped to teach Denise how to take digital pictures, to scan student drawings, and to create a class web site using these products. 

Dale Wright, a fifth grade teacher, expressed a desire for students to create their own web sites on topics being covered in class.  With Ashley's assistance, Mr. Wright was able to send small groups of students to the media center to create topic-specific sites that provided resources for the entire class to use.  Ashley taught students how to create these pages, how to insert images (especially animated gifs), and to create hyperlinks to reference sites.

Web Sites:
http://orchard.sbschools.net/users/sking/rainforestshare.htm
http://orchard.sbschools.net/users/dwright/curriculum/body/index.htm
http://orchard.sbschools.net/users/dwright/curriculum/
sixpresidents/index.htm
http://orchard.sbschools.net/library/index.htm

Teacher:
Earle Dunphy

Grades:
6-8
Speech Language

Mentor:
Shannon Smith
(Spring 2002)

Goals/Project Description:
Mr. Dunphy, the speech language educator at Edmunds Middle School, was interested in developing a special education web site that was especially designed for classroom teachers.  Mr. Dunphy had acquired some basic web page skills, but needed a mentor to help him realize his ideas. 

Shannon Smith, a PT3 Student Mentor, and Mr. Dunphy met regularly each week for approximately two hours to develop a web compendium of special education resources. Shannon helped Mr. Dunphy create a site design and template to help Mr. Dunphy maintain the site on his own.

Mr. Dunphy and Shannon  investigated background images, animated gifs and other graphics to enhance the visual appeal of the site. Mr. Dunphy reviewed Internet resources and Shannon assisted him in creating links to these resources.

Web Site:
http://www.bsdvt.org/schools/edmundsmid/personal/
edunphy/website/default.htm
 

Teacher:
Monique Martin

Grades:
7-8
French

Mentor:
Kyler Bland
(Spring 2002)

Goals/Project Description:
Monique Martin, French teacher for grades seven and eight, was interested in developing a project that would engage students in studying French using internet resources.  She envisioned creating a "virtual museum" web site that showcased art from around the world and requested a mentor to help her with this project.  Ms. Martin also wanted to use technology more actively in her classes, especially in creating travel brochures to French speaking countries.

With the assistance of Kyler Bland, Ms. Martin was able to accomplish the second goal -- using Internet resources to support classroom projects.  Kyler offered to create a webquest that offered facts and information about French-speaking countries.  Kyler assisted students when they worked in the computer lab that adjoined their classroom on other Internet research assignments.  The concept of the virtual museum is still one of Ms. Martin's dreams, but is on hold for now.

Web Site:
http://www.uvm.edu/~kbland/frenchwebquest

Teacher:
Maureen Caruso

Grade: 2

Mentor:
Natasha Norins
(Fall 2001)

Emmy Brolyer
(Spring 2002)

 

Goals/Project Description:
Maureen Caruso requested a student mentor to help her learn how to integrate technology with her second grade students and to help her develop a class web page that would show case her students' work.  During the fall semester, Natasha Norins assisted Ms. Caruso to achieve her goals.  With Natasha's help, Ms. Caruso introduced students to basic use of the computer during their scheduled computer lab time.  Students learned how to log in to the network and to create documents in Microsoft Word.  They also began to do research using the Internet.  Natasha taught the students how to use drawing tools to illustrate their ideas. 

As the second semester progressed, Emmy Brolyer continued the work that Natasha had begun while Natasha shifted her role in the classroom from student mentor to student teacher.  Both Natasha and Emmy worked together to introduce students to basic computer use and concepts.  Their projects included a HyperStudio stack on all 50 states that the students helped to develop and they learned how to do a webquest for Internet searching. 

Outside of class time, both Natasha and Emmy helped Ms. Caruso learn to create web pages.  Ms. Caruso is currently teaching at Central School.
 

Teacher:
Kristen Carlson

Grade: 4

Mentor:
Emily Mock
(Spring 2002)

Kristin Carlson taught fourth grade at Central School and requested a mentor to help her work with students to put their work online and link it to the class home page.  Emily worked for approximately 3 hours per week helping Ms. Carlson with class web page work.  Initially, they attempted to take the class to the computer lab to work as a large group on individual web pages.  This strategy, however, did not work well because this is a very high-energy class, populated by more boys than girls, and students were too excitable in the lab.  Ms. Carlson and Emily realized that working in small groups of 3 students in the classroom was a better approach, and they were able to accomplish more in this setting.

Emily developed a set of web links for the class web page that Ms. Carlson created.  She researched web resources and established the Fun Links section of the web page. This page includes links for math, science, and literacy. In addition, Emily works with small groups to help students write about the kinds of academic activities are happening in the class. 

Web Site:
http://www.sburl.k12.vt.us/central/carlson/

Teacher:
Maritza Valencia

Grade/Subject:
Spanish

Mentor:
Emma Waldo
(Spring 2002)

Emma Waldo was a secondary education student with a concentration in Spanish.  This placement was unique in that Emma was able to work with the Spanish teacher at South Burlington High School, Maritza Valencia.  Ms. Valencia was thrilled to have a mentor who could speak Spanish and who could understand her Spanish instructions spoken in class to her senior Spanish students. 

Prior to Emma’s arrival, Ms. Valencia had already started a web page to support her AP Spanish class.  She was looking for assistance in entering student work online.  Ms. Valencia reviews the student work, makes corrections, and posts the student’s responses online.  Emma would then take these files, convert them to HTML and upload them to the web site.  Due to new AP Spanish requirements, Ms. Valencia asked Emma to help her design her web site.

Emma also introduced fifth year Spanish students to HyperStudio.  Originally, Ms. Valenica had planned to use Powerpoint for student presentations, but was influenced by Emma to look at HyperStudio as an alternative presentation software tool.  Emma successfully taught students how to use HyperStudio to complete an assignment given by Ms. Valencia.

In support of a trip Ms. Valencia was taking to Spain in late April, Emma developed a design for a web site to document this trip.  Emma and Ms. Valencia worked collaboratively to consider the design and format of this new site. 

Emma also worked after school hours with Curt Belton. Mr. Belton teaches science and was interested in developing his own web site.  With Emma's assistance, he has learned how to use a scanner to import images for his site.  Emma supported Mr. Belton in learning these new tools and in developing a new site for his class (not yet online for review).

Web Site:
http://sbhs.sbschools.net/wlang/spanish/valencia/