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.

Time-Lapse Video of Valley High School Construction

Check out the great time-lapse video put together by WDM tech staff member Carl Sundermann (@carlsunder on twitter)  The video documents the construction progress between June 13, 2011 to January 15, 2013 to the new story addition at Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa.

Here’s some details about how the video was made…

• Used a Canon Rebel T1i digital camera with a 10mm wide-angle lens
• DSLR Remote Pro taking a photo every 15 minutes
• Camera was up and running between June 13, 2011 and Jan 15, 2013.
• 96 images were taken each day, or approximately 53,088 total images
• The photos from 6pm to 6am were removed
• Imported all images into Final Cut Pro v 7.0.3
• Timeline 1280×720 at HDV 720p30, 1 frame/image
• Removed weekends, holidays, and times when nothing was happening
• Approximately 12,450 frames made the final edit
• Increased speed 2x to keep the final length around 4 minutes
• Music from soundzabound.com with education license.