Vol. IV No. 1 une 2004
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Ellen Robertson, Editor
Corinne Carriero, Computer Instruction Director
HHH Celebrates Its 7th TEAM
and 83rd Graduate
In LIU Ed Tech Master’s Program
Turn to the last page for more information about TEAM accomplishments and the
District’s unique collaboration with Long Island University...
Published by and for the Faculty of the Half Hollow Hills School District
HHH Celebrates National
and Statewide Technology
Awards
2004 Tech-Savvy Superintendent Award
Dr. Sheldon
Karnilow has been
named one of ten
school superintendents from across the
United States to
receive the esteemed
“Tech-Savvy Superintendent Award” by eSchool News, the
nation's only education technology
newspaper. “Each superintendent honored demonstrated exceptional vision in
leading the development and implementation of a district-wide technology plan.
The winning superintendents also ensured that technology resources were
equitably distributed among students and
staff. These superintendents' achievements and leadership abilities, combined
with their efforts in the field of education
technology, were key factors in selecting
the 2004 Tech -Savvy Superintendent
winners.” Congratulations, Dr. Karnilow!
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Outstanding New York State Technologist
Ellen Robertson, Coordinator of
Instructional Computing, was designated
the “2003-2004 Lee Bryant Outstanding
New York State Technologist” by the New
York State Association for Computers and
Technologies in Education (NYSCATE)
at their annual conference. This
award was conferred in “recognition
of Ellen’s implementation and demonstration of the use of technology to
improve education in an exceptional
manner”.
NYSCATE Governing Board Member
Designation
Corinne Carriero, Director of
Instructional Computing, has been named
a NYSCATE Board member and the
organization’s Long Island Regional
Director.
The New York State Association for
Computers and Technologies in Education (NYSCATE) is an educational, not for
profit organization which seeks to promote the effective use of technologies for
quality education. NYSCATE fosters
collaborative efforts to integrate technologies in instruction across the curriculum,
and disseminates information designed to
assist educators in enhancing the management and effectiveness of the learning
environment. Corinne also has just
completed a year’s service as a consultant
on the technology committee for NYSUT.
Dunkin’ Donut $1000 Tech Award
Model Schools Technology Grant Winners
Otsego staff members Stacey
Bernstein and Sharon Stepankewich
have been designated 2004 Model Schools
Technology Grant awardees. This competitive and juried grant, provided by
Western Suffolk BOCES, provides recipients with $1000 worth of technology
resources and equipment to further
integrate the use of computers in their
curriculum areas. Competition is based
upon submission of lessons integrating
the use of technology. Please view their
award-winning curriculum unit, The Road
to Revolution, on the District's "best
practices" site:
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Students in Maryann Fasciana's
4th grade class at Sunquam have been
named regional winners in a technology
contest sponsored by Dunkin Donuts.
Maryann, a recent graduate of the TEAM
Master’s program, used her technology
integration skills as well as her knowledge
of multiple intelligences to guide her
students in developing their winning
entry. Students developed a multimedia
commercial using iMovie encouraging
their peers to do their homework. Student director M. Marisi reported:
“Our class entered the Lights! Camera! Homework! Commercial Contest
sponsored by Dunkin' Donuts. We had to
make a 60 second commercial in order to
persuade students to do their homework.
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We were judged on originality and creativity, persuasiveness, and class wide participation. To make this commercial we
divided the class into groups. Each group
had a different responsibility. For example, our groups were Music, Actors,
Writers, Directors, Technology, and
Scenery. We sent our final tape to Dunkin
Donuts and have been chosen as the first
place winner from New York State”!
school will have this technology available
for integration). Her student have become so proficient with their use that
they have been invited to several sharing
events and technology meetings outside
the District, including those at the Riverhead Aquarium, LI Technology Center,
and Long Island University to share their
expertise.
ASSET Honored Teacher of 2004
Sunquam’s Maryann Fasciana was
in the news again, this time honored for
her technology integration skills at the
annual Association of Suffolk Supervisors
of Technology Awards luncheon in May.
ASSET honors educators who have shown
exceptional expertise in developing
lessons incorporating technology into
various curriculum areas. Besides utilizing
video production to
teach various ELA
skills, Maryann
has spearheaded the use
of USB microscopes within
her curriculum
(in the fall, each
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“Its a Small world after all!” Sunquam students
use USB microscopes to support their science
understandings
HHH Faculty and Students Share Their
Technology Expertise
Forty one representatives from our
District were invited to present technology-infused curriculum-based projects at
the annual BOCES Technology Share Fair,
“Blasting off with Technology”, on March
30th at the Long Island Technology
Center in Great River. This event, attended by twelve western Suffolk school
districts, highlighted some of the technology “best practices” of each district.
Students who attended presented and
shared their work with other students and
teachers and administrators. Attending
faculty included this year’s Model Schools
Technology Grant winners Stacey
Bernstein and Sharon Stepankewich
from Otsego Elementary whose students
showed their award winning project “The
Road to Revolution”.
Other projects presented were:
• Nile Network News (reporting
“ancient news" using iMovie) by Candlewood students and Frank Genise
• Get Ready for Your Close-Up
(investigating micro-worlds with USB
scopes) by Sunquam students and
MaryAnn Fasciana
• Build-a-Bear (using internet
research to create Build-a-Bear activities)
by Forest Park students and Fred Seiden
• Point of View (PowerPoint presentations about student views) by High
School West students and Dave Ricciuti
• Research Project iMovie (a technological twist on traditional projects) by
West Hollow students and Pat Kane
• Through My Eyes (self-reflection
PowerPoint projects) by West Hollow
students and Christina Papachristou
• Action Egypt (multi-technology
HyperStudio projects) by West Hollow
students and Sandy Russell
Fred Seiden and his Build-a-Bear Team present
at BOCES Share Fair 2004
Dave Ricciuti, Pat Kane, and Christina
Papachristou line up to present at BOCES
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• Christina Papachristou (West
Hollow): From Inspiration to
PowerPoint to PDF to the Web: The Fast
Lane to Presenting Student Projects on
the Web
• Corinne Carriero and Ellen
Robertson: Copycats, Plagiarists, and
21st Century Students: Using Online
Tools Ethically and Effectively; and
Enjoy the Hi-Life With i-Life: Investigating a Sweet (Suite) of Multimedia Tools
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2004 ASSET Conference Presenters
2004 Long Island University Sharing Event
Seven District faculty members were
selected by a jury of area technology
coordinators from a field of 48 entrants to
share their expertise and present topics
and new technologies at the annual
ASSET Conference “T3”. Staff members
and their workshops included:
• Janet Chan and Sue Wright
(West Hollow): Using Video Editing Tools
in the Interdisciplinary Classroom
• Maryann Fasciana (Sunquam):
Get Ready for Your Close-up! Using USB
Microscopes in the Classroom
• Terri Goodenough (West
Hollow): Multimedia Presentation Ideas
for the Middle Level
At this annual sharing event attended by 450 students from Nassau and
Suffolk Counties, Maria Archdeacon
(HS West) and Betsy Murphy (Otsego)
and their students led workshops utilizing technologies new to most attendees.
Maria’s class used DNA websites to
support a lesson in which middle school
advanced placement science students
tested their DNA and made origami
models of DNA chromosome strings.
Betsy’s class was stationed at the welcoming area where they helped students
investigate microscopic worlds through
the use of USB microscopes.
Teachers Develop Differentiation of
Instruction and Multiple Intelligence
“Infomercials”
Maria Archdeacon instructs Westbury Middle
School students in classifying their DNA
Retiring Computer Liaisons
We’d like to wish two computer
liaisons, Marilyn Drange (CH) and
Betsy Murphy (OT) “happy trails” as
they embark on their retirement. Marilyn
has been one of the District “pioneers”
in utilizing technology within her curriculum and her expertise will be sorely
missed. Betsy was our first staff member
to delve into the possibilities of using
video in the curriculum when she
documented a class careers project at
Newsday. Both of these staff members
are commended on not only their
acquisition of new and cutting edge
skills, but their unwavering efforts in
supporting staff use of technology within
their respective schools.
This past year 43 staff members
learned the intricacies of how to integrate
video editing into their curriculum while
producing DI movies for the District
website. When these videos are mounted,
they will provide an area for teachers to
investigate some of the instructional
initiatives that the District has implemented within the past two years. During
the workshops, not only did teachers
develop a foundation of understanding
these initiatives, they also developed skills
in using digital cameras and camcorders,
editing still images, audio and video clips,
and burning their results onto CDs and
DVDs. The last two sessions produced the
following titles (soon to be “released for
distribution” on the District site!):
Multiple Intelligence in the Library
Media Center by Diane Calise; DI
Process in the World of Shakespeare by
Margaret Davis; DI in the Science
Curriculum by Joe Caligiuri; DI in the
Math Curriculum by Corrienne Jackson; DI in the ELA Classroom by Linda
Martucci; The DI Art Room by Alan
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Glueckert; Tiered Lessons by Charese
Cunningham; The DI Music Room by
Bill Finnerty; DI in Choral Music by
Gary De Sesa; Math Multiple Intelligences by Joseph Del Guidice;
Shakespearian DI by Leslie Mjos;
Bagatelle to DI For by Tony Graziosi;
Multiple Intelligences by Ralph Di
Cicco; Types of Learners by Siobhan
Boltz; Multiple Intelligence in SS by
Cynthia Yantz; DI for the Gifted Student
by Betty Volpe; Types of Learners by
Dana Moore; DI in the Music Room by
Elissa Reichstein; DI in the PE Class by
Kathy Hanover; Centers in the Classroom by Peg Grodin; Multiple Intelligence by Jessica Fontaine; DI by Kate
Stoehr; Balanced Literacy by Kim
Helfand; The DI Rainforest by Rob
Jarmel; Journey to Learning by Toni
Chiapetta
Instructional Computing is once
again offering several sessions of this
popular workshop. You can view details
and sign up online by surfing over to the
Professional Development website at:
Technology Course
Offerings Fall 2004
Differentiating the Research Process with
Technology: Internet Research Skills for the
Secondary Classroom (PDP)
Creating and Distributing Your Class’s Video
Yearbook using iMovie: Addressing Multiple
Intelligences Through Collaborative ProjectBased Activities ( PDP)
Teacher iMovie Production: Differentiating
for Content, Process and Product (Now
THAT’S Entertainment!) (PDP)
Differentiating With Diverse Presentation
Tools: “Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Moe – PowerPoint, AppleWorks, or iPhoto!” (PDP)
Live the Hi-Life with iLife and System X
(inservice)
Clicking With Photoshop Elements (inservice)
Get the “Word” Out, “Excel” at “Spreading “
Information, and “Point” to “Powerful Ideas:
Investigating the Various Uses of Office 2004
Within the Curriculum (secondary staff only)
(inservice)
http://
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AppleWorks: One Application. Infinite Uses!
(inservice)
There you will find other technology
PDP workshops and classes including the
following:
Surf on over to the PDP website for
further details!
Staff Members Investigate Cloning
No, they haven’t cloned their best
students! Several teachers from the TEAM
Masters program (see the last page for
details about the program) devoted a
great deal of time, energy and elbow
grease to deploy computers to District
residents who did not have access to
technology. Over a period of several
weeks, staff members converted machines
that were no longer able to connect to
our new network into stand-alone machines for home use. By using an image of
one sample machine, they “cloned” 48
computers for our District families. TEAM
members also tutored students and
parents in their initial use and helped in
distribution of the computers.
TEAM Masters Program members
Christina Papachristou and Jim Nolan
begin the “cloning” process!
Happenings
Around the District
Forest Park
Fifth graders at Forest Park have
utilized their laptops for a number of year
end projects. Rick Keller's students used
laptops and the internet to research
selected Civil War websites. They then
used TimeLiner, journals, and iMovies to
present and share their work. Fred
Seiden's class created movie posters of
themselves and also researched various
types of aquatic animals on the web.
“Anywhere, anytime” learning happens
easily at Forest Park!
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Janet Ruggiero’s class utilized various
websites for their unit on the westward
movement. They have found Kidspiration
to be very helpful for brainstorming in
creating their Forest Park memoir essays.
Otsego
Allysa Friedland, Molly Hood,
Jessica Civelia and Betsy Murphy
worked with their students to create
slideshows for “Back to School Night”.
Parents thoroughly enjoyed this window
into their youngsters’ classrooms. Music
teacher Elissa Reichstein and her
students wrote stories based on orchestral pieces, illustrated them, and then
presented their work in digital video form
by using iMovie. Stacey Bernstein and
her fifth graders took digital pictures and
video of all of Otsego's classes. They
created an iMovie, “Your Children...Their
Teachers...Our School”, which Dr. Della
Valle presented to the parents on Back
to School Night and to the Board of
Education at their September meeting at
Otsego. In Andrea Marcus’s second
grade class, each student chose a type of
community to write about and published
it using AppleWorks. They also used
KidPix to draw either a rural, urban or
suburban community that they then
wrote about. This activity was part of the
2nd grade curriculum unit on neighborhoods and communities. Students in
Betsy Murphy’s 3rd grade class used the
internet to investigate information about
mammals. After researching, each student
created a flip book and an animated
AppleWorks presentation to share the
information they had learned. In Tracey
Conklin’s 5th grade class, students
worked in cooperative groups and used
multiple web sites to research various
topics about the pioneers. This information was used to enhance a simulation
focusing on the life of a pioneer. In
Carrie McCabe’s 3rd grade class, students used Timeliner to create a timeline
of their life. The students also used
AppleWorks to import pictures into their
timeline. In Wendy Soldewedel’s 5th
grade class, students used laptops to
research famous black Americans. The
students then used Inspiration to organize all information gathered and
Timeliner to construct a timeline of their
events.
Otsego’s students research mammals for their
presentations
Paumanok
Paumanok’s kindergartners have
spent the year mastering the different
parts of the computer and using the
wordprocesser in AppleWorks.
Paumanok’s first graders have utilized the
laptops and the web to learn about all the
places “Flat Stanley” visited. This project
was a big hit during Paumanok’s Curriculum Night Celebration. Lauren Coffey’s
first graders used KidPix to create their
own maps and map legends. Using
different shapes, colors and patterns,
children depicted how their bedroom
would look from above. First graders also
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Season of Senses.” Fourth graders freused Kidspiration for various projects
such as creating their own webs about the quently used aaamath.com to improve
planets, sea animals and even their famitheir mathematical skills and used
Kidspiration to make character webs
lies. Mrs. Serota’s first graders used
about the novel, Shiloh. Students in the
KidPix icons to stamp out different
objects and then created their own
fourth grade physical education classes
mathematical
created a page for their
equations to
memory book reflectillustrate their
ing on the experience
work. Jeri
they had at a Nassau
Stark’s class
Coliseum Islanders’
visited Fort
presentation.
Salonga’s Apple
Stephanie
Orchard. The
Nemiroff’s fifth grade
children then
class, under the direcwordprocessed
tion of student teacher
the highlights of
Marie Conti, read the
their second
novel Tuck Everlasting
Rob Jarmel helps a student refine her project and used laptops to
grade field trip,
incorporating the
create a writing piece
digital photos they had taken at the
titled “If I Drank From The Magic
orchard. Third graders created their own Spring...”. This year, one entire bulletin
acrostic poems about the month of
board at Paumanok was devoted to the
October using clip art to personalize their display of technology infused projects. In
work. Third graders also explored the
September “A Bushel Full of AppleWorks”
web to learn all about the rain forest.
displayed work produced across all grade
They also created their own acrostic
levels. In November “Going Nuts Over
poem about the animals they researched. Computers” was the theme. Subsequent
A bulletin board of computer generated
bulletin boards announced “It's Snowing
artwork was displayed in the third grade
Great Computer Work”, “Earth Shattering
hallway with the theme of “Spring,: A
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Computer Works”, and “Spring Has
Sprung Great Computer Works”.
that they have adapted to the environment. The use of the web allowed students to explore and analyze information
Signal Hill
that they then organized and presented
through a “Guess My Animal” project. For
The 5th grade students and teachers this project, students were asked to
at Signal Hill were thrilled to have half
design graphs that showed their animal’s
class sets of laptops available to them
decline over the years. Using the
during the past school year. They used
AppleWorks spreadsheet program, stuthem throughout the day as a tool in all
dents created line graphs depicting their
subject areas. Students often utilized
findings. Art students at Signal Hill had
different web search engines when
the opportunity to utilize computer
researching historical information. They resources to enrich many art experiences.
created newspapers through the use of
Virtual field trips on the internet enabled
AppleWorks wordprocessing, drawing and students to travel to art museums and
painting environments. They wrote
explore artifacts from different cultures.
editorials, created headlines and captions, Students were able to respond to and
and chose appropriate clip art for their
articles. They also researched different
forms of advertisements, classified ads,
recipes, political cartoons and comics for
their publications. Fifth graders also
developed a 5th grade book list database
using the AppleWorks database module.
Each student added titles, authors,
genres, and their own critiques to this
database. All students were then able to
choose books based on the recommendation of their peers. Fourth graders
Signal Hill students in Luci Bradley’s class find
have done extensive internet research
their laptops essential for their research
projects
about endangered species and the way
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analyze representational art pieces.
Fourth graders also sharpened their math
skills through the use of websites such as
Multiplication.com, Cool Math.com,
and Funbrain.com. Second grade
teachers reported greater use of technology this year, also. The second grade
team writes: “We used the internet to
research and write reports on the solar
system. We watched streaming videos
from unitedstreaming.com of whales
and listened to actual whale songs. The
students researched various types of
whales and tracked their migration habits
over the internet. We compared weather
and climate variations throughout the
United States and Mexico. The students
then researched the weather at different
geographical locations and made comparison graphs and charts in the AppleWorks
spreadsheet and graphing modules. We
tracked the migration of butterflies from
various locations in the United States to
Mexico. We made word searches using
spelling words, created our own books
using pictures from AppleWorks clip art,
made semantic webs in Inspiration, and
wrote pen pal letters using the computer
as our main tool. We also used digital
cameras extensively to create picture
books and displays of class trips and field
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trip activities and created webs in
Kidspiration and used the program to
make comparisons and brainstorm ideas
before writing stories”.
First grade teachers at Signal Hill
were also very busy this year. Moira
Haltigan’s and Kathleen McDonald's
classes were busy making memory books
to capture the highlights of the 2003-2004
school year. The students learned to copy
pictures which had been posted on their
class eBoard and then paste them into an
AppleWorks document, where they
created captions describing their memories.
High School East
There was a great deal of video
creation at High School East this year.
Cindy Yantz’s classes broke into groups
and performed skits on various topics in
Global Studies. These skits were taped
and then edited in iMovie. Cindy then
used the edited movies as a multimedia
component to teach the rest of her
classes the various topics. Anthony
Scorcia’s American History classes visited
the Sunrise Assisted Living Home in Dix
Hills to interview the residents. The class
documented many fascinating stories
about life during the Depression, World
War II, and beyond. Students used digital
camcorders and edited the interviews
using iMovie software. The resulting
video was then placed on the District’s
Social Studies website. Sophie Sirlnick
had her students create, perform and
tape commercials advertising a product
in French. She then had her students
edit these commercials using iMovie.
Rick Volpe’s U.S. History class filmed
Lucy Macchia, a monitor at East, as she
shared documents and stories about her
husband when he served during World
War II. This was also edited in iMovie,
and will be used as a lesson for future
classes.
Software For Faculty
“At-home” Use
Impressed with what your colleagues are doing with technology?
Need time to practice honing your skills
in the programs used in the District?
Through special licensing agreements,
the District is able to distribute certain
software titles for teacher home use.
See your school’s computer liaison to
borrow copies of the following software
programs for use on one home computer (all are available for PC and Mac
systems):
AppleWorks
Inspiration
Kidspiration (elementary only)
Adobe PhotoShop Elements
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
(secondary only)
• Microsoft Office XP for
Windows (secondary only)
• New! MediaBlender
(replaces HyperStudio)
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HS East students use the internet to research
their Social Studies projects
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TEAM Graduates, cont’d...
The next TEAM (Technology, Education, and Multimedia) cohort is scheduled
to begin this September and there are
several openings still available. If you are
interested in this unique masters program, which will count towards permaThursday, June 17th, 2004, marked
nent certification, please call Ellen Robthe ending of a two year journey in
mastering educational technologies for 19 ertson or Corinne Carriero in Instrucof our colleagues. The graduation of this tional Computing at ex.3083. You may
group of teachers underscores the incred- also view more information about the
program at:
ible fact that nearly 10% of our present
http://edt.liu.edu/TEAM/
faculty now possess a masters degree in
Educational Technology through the
graduate department at Long Island
University. This unique cohort program,
which is given within our District, is a
collaboration between the University and
our District.
Congratulations...
Sarah Baptiste
Bill Breuer
Mary Byrnes
Joe Caliguri
Darlene Curcio
Paul Doxsee
Maryann Fasciana
Krisen Ferreira
Matt Gribbin
Pat Kane
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Kristen Leo
Jessica Lockwood
Mary McGovern
Alysha Mohammed
Jim Nolan
Christina Papachristou
Sophie Sirulnick
Paul Travaglianti
Bill Ulrich
As part of their work to give back to the
community, 2004 TEAM members “clone”
computers for use by District residents