Project Objectives and Outcomes:

Technology and Literacy integration

• Student-Teacher/Teacher collaboration

• Graphic illustrations and photo manipulation in Claris Paint and Hyperstudio

• Scanning

• Quick Cam

• Writing process

• Organizational writing

• Reading response

• Knowing the parts of a book

Process: The reading specialist devised 6 questions for each chapter that were directly relative to the happenings in the story, but in terms of the students own life. After the writing process occurs, the students digitize their writing. Students go on further to eliminate the question from the response in the new digital format. The result was the paragraph(s) of that particular chapter. The next step was to divide the responses into captions , and give a description of what the illustrations for that caption should look like. Formatting a ClarisWorks Draw document into one page down and one page across resulted in a digital slide show, and printable book. The results were quite amazing, and the student-teacher/teacher collaboration was exactly what our goal was to see.