Less than a semester after getting their Chromebooks, Stanly County middle-schoolers tackled a new level of technological collaboration.
Using Google applications and Skype, an online video conferencing tool, Michelle Reasso’s media class at West Stanly Middle School jointly worked on research papers and presentations with students from a completely different school system.
“One person from our class paired up with one of theirs,” Rylee Linnell, one of Reasso’s dozen or so students, said as she prepared to Skype with her partner, a fifth-grade student at Coltrane-Webb Elementary School in Cabarrus County.
“We share our notes and stuff through Google Docs (an online word processor),” Linnell said.
They wrapped up the project with a field trip to Coltrane-Webb where, after meeting their partners face-to-face for the first time, they delivered joint presentations to both classes and teachers.
“We wanted them to be able to use the technology in a way it is being used today,” Reasso said.
