Congratulations to VHS DigiTools Class

Skylar M’s project titled “How Sina Weibo Saved Lives” took 1st place in the category of Wireless Connectivity

Congratulations to the Valley High School  DigiTools class taught by Sarah Bird, as they recently presented online to a world-wide audience through the Flat Classroom Project.

As students presented their projects on-line, judges used the following rubrics to rate their multimedia works.   There were 11 major categories and within each category, the judges awarded 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, and Honorable Mention.

Multimedia Awards from Valley High School included…

1st Place: Skylar M from Valley High School, for the project “How Sina Weibo Saved Lives” in the Wireless Connectivity category.

2nd Place to Peter N from_Valley High  for the project “Invisible Communication”  in the Virtual Communication category.

2nd Place to Kelly R from_Valley High  for the project  “Google Blast from the past” in the Google category

2nd Place: Gabbie R_from Valley High for the project “For The Greater Good” in the World Wide Web category. 

2nd place: Katelund S_from Valley High for the project “The waitress, the autistic girl, and the ‘broken’ burger” in the Connecting the World Online category.

Honorable Mention: Sandeep D from Valley High  for the project “The Future of Web 2.0 is Web 3.0 in the Web 2.0 category.

Honorable Mention: Bryce S from_Valley High for the project  “Workflow Video” in the Workflow software category.

Digi-Tools class presents online through Flat Classroom Project

The Digi-Tools class is taught by Sarah Bird.

Valley High School Digi-Tools students have been participating in The Flat Classroom Project. The Flat Classroom Project is a global collaboration project based on Thomas Friedman’s book, The World is Flat, that joined students together from around the globe. Students used a variety of Web 2.0 tools to communicate, research, evaluate, and create. Other schools that participated in our project were from Illinois, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Ohio, California, Colorado, Canada, Mexico, India, and Australia.

The purpose of the project is for students to experience the flattening of walls within the classroom. U.S. businesses no longer work in isolation, but rely on global partners just as our students experienced during this project. Students researched ideas discussed within Friedman’s book, collaboratively wrote a summary on a wiki page, and created a video that included an outsourced segment from a student in another classroom.

In true Digi-Tools fashion, the culmination of this project will take place online. Please join us on Monday, May 13 from 10:00 am -10:45 am for our online Student Summit. You will be able to watch students present online by clicking on the link below. Each student will share in one minute or less their experience of working through this project. Simply click on the link below, enter your name & log in.

http://tinyurl.com/studentsummit2012-2013

The Digi-Tools class is taught by Sarah Bird, business education teacher at Valley High School.  Her class has participated in the Flat Classroom Project in previous years. To see their information/products from prior years, please visit:   Digi-Tools/Flat Classroom Video from 2011  and  Valley High School Student Summit from 2011.