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Schools
TECH BOSTON ACADEMY
Sophomores at TechBostonAcademy,
a well-respected Boston Public Pilot School,
have learned to build web sites using the WiredWoods
curriculum.
They then use their
web skills to enhance learning in traditional subjects – web sites
on Chemistry experiments, animations of French phrases
and Spanish web pages |
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When
asked whether making a Chemistry site was harder
than writing a paper, one student replied, “No,
easier. It was fun. If it had been a paper, it
would have been boring.”
Others are publishing
an on-line school newspaper, The
Messenger@TechBoston
Academy. |
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The Media and Technology Charter
High (MATCH) School |
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Incoming Freshmen at The
Media and Technology Charter High (MATCH) School participated
in the WiredWoods curriculum as part of Summer 2004 “boot
camp.” Teaching multimedia creation enabled
active learning as well as supported (and livened
up) math and language arts instruction. As part of
their project, each student wrote a 200-word personal
statement that was passed along to the freshmen English
teachers. |
After-school and summer
programs
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Students who participate in Citizen Schools’ innovative
after-school program learn web development as part
of technology apprenticeships sponsored by WiredWoods.
Students are building virtual tours of their schools,
creating after-school on-line newspapers and authoring
interactive stories. To date, the WiredWoods curriculum
has been taught as part of 21 apprenticeships at Citizen
Schools campuses in Boston and Eastern Massachusetts.
Our goal is to run at every Citizen Schools campus
nationwide.
WiredWoods ran as part of the formal after-school program
at the Boston Renaissance Charter School. |
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| WiredWoods and Madison Park Development
Corporation (Roxbury, MA) married technology education
with community advocacy in the Teen’s Voice Program.
This joint project taught girls and boys how to plan
and create web sites which 1) voiced their opinions on
community issues and 2) facilitated community discussion
and development. The teens were interns – with
job expectations and weekly stipends. |
Girls Get Connected Conference |
| At Boston’s annual Girls Get Connected Conference
at Simmons Collage, WiredWoods taught a workshop on “Girls
and the Media: Truth and the Image.” During our
3-hours, 15 girls created their own digital imagery and
learned first-hand how the media can alter images. |
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Summer
camp
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| A well-established overnight camp, Crossroads
for Kids has been serving Boston-area at-risk youth for
65 years. Today, campers swim, climb rocks, make crafts… and
two hours/day learn to build web sites that tell camp
stories. In fact, the creative works campers write for
their sites help bridge the summer literacy gap. Starting
in 2004, WiredWoods ran at two Crossroads for Kids camp
locations. |
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