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=Build a Technology Day Project = = =  Carolyn Crosier Melissa Hartman Ian Thome Brent Villella


 * __Introduction__**

Do your students get excited about using technology in the classroom? Are you always looking for new ways to integrate technology into your lessons? This technology day project is designed for 7th Graders and is based on Ohio Academic Content Standards. Our hope is that our project will provide you with some motivating ideas.

These activities were created for classes of twenty to twenty-five students although the student to teacher ratio overall is around 17:1. Students with IEPs are fully integrated into the regular classroom. The entire middle school (Grades 7-8) consists of about 1200 students. The middle school is in an upper-middle class suburban neighborhood and was built in 1999. = = = = The teachers are organized into ten teaching teams. In the middle school each classroom has one to five desktop computers. A laptop cart of twenty computers is available. Students also have access to a computer lab in addition to those in the media center. Internet access is available for all computers and mobile devices. Other technologies available for use include digital cameras, digital voice recorders, headphones, microphones, scanners, printers and other subject specific equipment. Databases students may access include those through InfOhio and other subject specific sites as well as textbook specific sites. = = = = References: Image found at http://www.cli.nsw.edu.au/cli/media/images/Lea_73MVC_711S_students.jpg