Table of Contents
Six of the following 15 summaries include excerpts from the story (numbers 1-5 and 13).
- Calling All Students
At Maryland School for the Deaf, students of all ages and abilities learn to
use a wide array of telecommunications tools, gaining literacy skills and
independence along the way.
Excerpt
- Catching the Story on Tape
The San Francisco Hearing and Speech Center's K-2 students read and retell
stories using oral language, pictures, word processing, and ultimately
videotape, which provides opportunities for teacher assessment, sharing at
home, and enthusiasm among students.
Excerpt
- Desktop History
High school history students at the California School for the Deaf in Riverside
use desktop publishing software on in-class computers to create newsletters
covering varied topics from a historical period.
Excerpt
- Students Take to Spotlight
Students at Pennsylvania's Susquehanna Township Middle School use videotape,
TTY, photography, and expressive language to prepare for and host visitor days,
when adults from the deaf community address the class on a unit-related
subject.
Excerpt
- Capturing Students with Captioning
Students in the CAPS Collaborative at Reingold Elementary School in central
Massachusetts work through the writing process to create their own captioned
narration for existing and class-made videotapes, using a captioning
workstation designed for the classroom.
Excerpt
- Branching into Multimedia
A teacher at Ashland Elementary School in Kentucky includes the hypermedia
program LinkWay in a unit on trees, allowing her students to demonstrate with
multimedia what they have learned.
- Bringing Learning Home
Parents learn American Sign Language (ASL) from videotapes their children make
at The Learning Center for Deaf Children outside Boston--enhancing
communication between parent and child and raising self-esteem among students
with special needs.
- Networked Learning
Students at Kendall Demonstration Elementary School in Washington, D.C., use
the Electronic Networks for Interaction lab to gain familiarity with
technology, improve reading and writing skills, and learn from one another.
- Interacting with Romeo and Juliet
Students at Junior High School 47 in New York City use computers and multimedia
software to understand the complexities of Shakespeare's Romeo and
Juliet and to help produce a sign language CD-ROM.
- Multimedia and Robin Hood
Educators at W. T. Woodson High School in Fairfax, Virginia, use
captioned laserdiscs of classic literature and graphic organizers to teach
literary genre to students in a highly visual way.
- Bridging the Distance in Maine
Deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing students at Houlton High School and four
other locations satisfy their foreign language requirement by studying ASL
through a distance learning network in Maine.
- Virtual Museum Opens Doors
Students at the Texas School for the Deaf create a virtual museum of
computer art by learning and writing computer programs using various authoring
tools.
- Getting All the Answers
Como Park Elementary School is one of several St. Paul, Minnesota, schools to
use Discourse--an in-class computer network through which teachers receive
immediate written feedback from all students.
Excerpt
- Teaching the Teachers
Florida School for the Deaf and Blind takes a systematic approach to technology
training for teachers, including required and voluntary courses, in-service
workshops, technology support, and conference attendance.
- Cyberteaching Science
Using NASA satellite images and other data from the Internet, students at the
Model Secondary School for the Deaf in Washington, D.C., take on real
investigations in earth science, and share results with a network of other
students and scientists.
