Park Village Elementary School (858-484-5621)

  • "Child-Centered Emergent Reading Books"

    • Kaydie Smith-Berg, Kindergarten Teacher

    Received a grant of $712.00 to provide one digital camera.

    With the use of a newly purchased digital camera, Ms. Smith-Berg was able to create books using photographs and text about each one of her kindergarten students, a total of 25 books in all. These books were designed to expose her culturally diverse population of students to high frequency words and patterned text. She found that her students were more motivated to read stories that involved them.

  • "Pictures to Create Thousands of Words"

    • Robert Greenamyer - Fifth Grade Teacher

    Received a grant of $960.00 to purchase one video camera, tapes, charger, one tripod and bag, one scanner and PhotoShop graphics software.

    Students prepared and presented weekly newscasts with the technological assistance of PowerPoint presentations. Students learned the advantages of working together as a team to research a story and develop creative ways to present news to the class through the use of graphics, songs, or jokes to hold an audience's attention. Not only were they academically challenged, they also learned how to utilize the PowerPoint computer program. Because these newscasts were shown during Open House to their parents, the students were motivated to do their best.

  • "Making Class Books Using a Digital Camera"

    • Teresa Cope - First Grade Teacher

    Grant of $831.15 provided one digital camera, two color print cartridges, two black cartridges, and two reams of cardstock paper.

    Students were more motivated to read when given the opportunity to read about themselves. Ms. Cope, with the use of a digital camera, photographed and interviewed each of her students who created their own personal book. Each book was placed in the class library to be read by all students over and over again reinforcing word recognition. She noticed strengthened student self-esteem. The books were an effective an incentive for writing projects.

Garden Road Elementary School (858-748-0230)

  • "Journalism"

    • Paula Perkins - Second and Third Grade Teacher

    Received a grant of $1,000.00 to purchase a digital camera, genre literature books, and DJ Inkers software.

    Through the use of computer software, a digital camera, and literature books, students learned the in-the-field journalistic process of writing and publishing their works on a classroom web page and in the school yearbook. Their work improved their writing and their recognition of different writing genres.

Santee Alternative School (619-258-2265)

  • "Write, Click, and Right Click!"

    • Katy Pohle - First through Sixth Grade Teacher

    A grant of $1,000.00 provided the funds to purchase one digital camera and one scanner.

    With the use of a digital camera, a scanner, and a word processing program, students enhanced their writing skills with instruction in computer programs, scanning photographs, and inserting those photographs into their edited and published works.