HCPS Middle School

Congratulations to Dr. Adria Hoffman who was a finalist for the Henrico 21 award for using creativity and innovation in the classroom.  Dr. Hoffman is the music teacher at L. Douglas Wilder Middle School.  She had her class identify and utilize music notation software and digital audio recording devices to create original musical compositions.  The end product of these compositions reflected the student’s musical interests, social identities, and school community.  Click on the play button below to listen to a student sample.

Nice Job all!

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AudioPal.com is a great site for students to make audio recordings that can be easily embedded into a website, blog, or social network.  This site has many advantages and allows for students to record audio clips via cell phone, computer keyboard, computer microphone, or they can upload already existing audio clips from their hard drive.  The sample below was recorded by a student pretending to be Thomas Jefferson.  The assignment was to make believe you are an important person in American History.   Your objective was to leave a voicemail to one of your contemporaries stating relevant facts and posing questions that relate to the Virginia Standards of Learning.   This created an enthusiastic, and modern take on the Revolutionary Era.  To listen to the sample below, just click on the play button.

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Ms. Sides English Class showed their self expression by creating online posters to share with people around the world.  The assignment was to read a book and report back using the online tool Glogster.  The students had a plethora of multimedia tools to choose from when creating their project (e.g. text, video, photos, and audio clips).  Students in the class also had the option to leave constructive feedback to one another using the comment feature, as well as take advantage of Glogster’s 5 star rating system in order to determine how individual projects compared to others in the class.

• Click Here to View Jame’s Glog

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Ms. Heesen’s class logged onto SAS curriculum in order to identify the three West African Empires that dominated trade between 1200 A.D. to 1600 A.D. They accomplished this feat by using SAS’s interactive atlas.  The atlas allowed them to create overlays and add text to the map.  When the students finished their work they were able to download a .pdf and email a copy of their work to Ms. Heesen.

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The WUWW staff had a blast hashing out some very creative photos and video to use for the new What’s Up Wilder Wolverines Morning Announcement Intro. They worked collaboratively on taking snapshots and shooting video of each other. Once everything was edited and compiled they uploaded their work to animoto.com for the final product.

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