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Elm Grove AV Crew

obannionm — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:46:33 +0000

Every 9-12 weeks Elm Grove Elementary 5th graders rotate into the AV crew for morning announcements. At the beginning of the year, forms are sent out asking who might be interested in AV Crew, Tech Aide, or Safety Patrol. Those 5th graders, who show interest in the AV crew, get screened by their teachers, and those who are approved, get to be on a crew for 9-12 weeks out of the school year. This crew came on around Thanksgiving and completed their adventure around February. Each crew who has been involved with the announcements has done an excellent job. The last six weeks will be different this year. The announcements will be ran by a different individual on campus, so we will be training the fourth graders on the equipment and procedures so they will know how to start at the beginning of next year.

Lewis and Clark

obannionm — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:42:20 +0000

The students in Ms. Smith’s 5th grade class participated in the Lewis and Clark Video Conference, instructed by Amy Bradfield. The students participated by working collaboratively with each other to complete the worksheets that accompanied the conference and were able to respond to questions Ms. Bradfield asked them. The information they learned was amazing and they were very excited to do Social Studies that day.

Morning Announcements

obannionm — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:54:12 +0000

A team of 5th grade students at Elm Grove Elementary come to school early, make sure slides are ready, cameras are on, teleprompter is ready, and they practice several times before they go live. The morning announcements are broadcast every morning over our TV’s in each teacher’s classroom. This is a fun thing for the kids to be a part of and it teaches them all about the equipment. The group will rotate through the different equipment and learn how to use it all.

“SMART” Library

bodinea — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:28:10 +0000

A first grader at Elm Grove uses the Smart Board in the Library

A Smart Board was recently mounted in the Elm Grove library. Librarian Mark Weems and Library Tech Karan Ratliff have been using the interactive white board with their classes and the kids couldn’t be more excited to jump up and participate in the lesson. The photo above was captured during a first grade lesson in which the kids were asked to help “dress the naked mole rat”. The game is based on a character in Mo Willems book, “Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed”.

NASA Videoconference

bodinea — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:29:54 +0000

3rd Graders at Elm Grove Elementary are eager to answer a question posed by the NASA Scientist

Third graders at Elm Grove Elementary recently had the opportunity to participate in a videoconference with NASA. After learning all about the Solar System in their classrooms, the students were eager to share their knowledge with their “virtual” teacher and had some very thoughtful questions preparred for him as well.

All six third grade classes were able to attend the videoconference in four separate sessions coordinated by Distance Learning Specialist, Christie Rickert and Elm Grove Instructional Technologist, Amanda Bodine. During the videoconferences, the representative from NASA showed the students a virtual model of the Solar System that helped to reinforce what they had been learning in class. Many of the questions that the students asked had to do with eating and sleeping in space. They were shown some very interesting video footage of Astronauts doing these very things in the space station. For every question asked by the students, the NASA Scientist had an answer including pictures or videos. It was a very interesting, impacting, and worthwhile experience for the students and the teachers.

KEGE-TV The Edge

bodinea — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:07:15 +0000

Fifth graders at Elm Grove Elementary are given the opportunity to learn how to use the same type of technology used at a network news station. Students present the weather as well as the daily lunch menu, birthdays, and other news to the students in the school every morning under the leadership of Instructional Technologist, Amanda Bodine. Fifth graders spend eight weeks working as part of the news crew and during that time they learn how to use the video mixer, sound mixer, and teleprompter, while also developing good public speaking skills and confidence. Power point is used to create the background images for the broadcast and chroma key technology along with a “green screen” is used to create the look and feel of a real news broadcast.