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=__ Model Classroom @ High School __=

Two Projects are included in this page illustrating Model Classroom program at work in schools.

 * 1) **Museo del Barrio** | Advanced Spanish Class creating art interpretation videos and website for spanish speaking museum visitors.
 * 2) **Making an Impact** | Pre-Engineering class on a design challenge of exploring possible solutions to their local drought problem.

===Project : Museo del Barrio | Adventure into Abstract Art en español ===

**Educator**: Chris Poulos, Redding, CT - Joel Barlow High School | Connecticut Teacher of Year 2007

**Grade**: 12th Grade Advanced Spanish | 14 Students | 4 Teams

(In the beginning) Original Project Plan:
A tour guide is planning a tour for a visiting group of Spanish-speaking teenagers and requests your students’ assistance learning about Spanish and Latin American art. Students will explore the Museo del Barrio collection in order to make connections and analyze individual art objects. Throughout the unit students track their observations and create personal interpretations and tour materials in writing and on video. (In the beginning) Original Culminating Project Plan: To conclude, students write Spanish scripts and produce interpretive videos about their art object for the guide to use as part of a tour for foreign visitors.

Project Synopsis Report
Chris Poulos is Connecticut's 2007 CCSSO Teacher of the Year who partnered with the New Learning Institute's (NLI) Model Classroom program. As the Spanish teacher at Joel Barlow High School in Redding, CT, he worked with NLI's staff to design and implement a three-week digital media project during the month of April, 2011. A celebration was held on Wednesday, April 27th, 2012 where the students presented their finished project to the Assistant Principal, school curriculum developers, education technology staff, school administrators & educators.

Chris' Spanish class finished their multimedia Website (en Espanol), which involved [|El Museo del Barrio] in NYC. The student website includes 4 interpretive videos, all in Spanish, of a select group of abstract artworks from the Museo del Barrio's collection. The website served as a prototype for the museum to share with other educators on how technology can be used to leverage their collection and be used to enhance teaching and learning. Along with the interpretive videos, the website includes a video introduction to the museum (a museum staff was interviewed) and a visitor guide page for visitors to print and take with them to the museum. This visitor guide includes images and a description of each art object, plus a QR code that links to each video using a smartphone. NLI’s private social network was used throughout the project for collaboration, discussions, blogging, sharing media and providing feedback between students, NLI staff, educators and museum staff. All student work (videos, website, social network use) was done in Spanish. The museum was enthusiastic and very involved on this project throughout this project. In addition, the museum staff used their social network accounts to engage with the students.

Chris was invited to participate in the first Model Classroom program at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. during the 2010 summer. The workshop explore 21st century learning and inspiring teachers to seek challenge-based learning approaches utilizing technology and digital media to give students real-world experiences. The students involved in this project were enthusiastically engaged in illustrating their ability to interpret art and authentically use technology in a real and relevant way.

Partnering with Museo del Barrio provided an exciting opportunity to illustrate how partnering with museums can open up new and exciting opportunities in adapting existing museum curriculum, employ digital media, and with this project, put student’s own technology into action. The museum staff were open-minded, excited, and committed during the entire project.

Chris continues to build on top of this experience, reaching out to NLI Model Classroom staff for conceptual and technical support. The relationship didn't stop at the Museo del Barrio project; he continues to push himself, his students, and his school.


 * Tools Used **
 * Student-owned Flip cameras and smartphones - BYOT
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Student Macs and iMovie - BYOT
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Weebly - Website development
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">YouTube and YouTube video Editor
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Delivr.com QR Code generator and usage metric tracker
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">GoogleDocs Form for student feedback survey
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Polleverywhere live poll for "Barrio Video Opinion Poll" of the 4 interpretive videos during the celebration
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">New Learning Institute Social Network - Collaboration platform

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 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Website **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">: []
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Website Artifacts **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Museo del Barrio Introduction: []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Art Object 1 | Virus Americanus XIII: Un Interpretación Visual -- []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Art Object 2 | Dactilares: Un Interpretación Visual -- []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Art Object 3 | Sin Titulo: Un Interpretacion Visual -- []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Art Object 3 | Friends and Enemies: Un Interpretación Visual -- []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Museo del Barrio QR Coded Visitor Experience Guide --

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Chris Poulos explains the Museo del Barrio Project at the Museum** []

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Student Reflections** | Culminating Project Presentations to school administrative and educator staff.

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Staff Interviews | Staff Reflections ** (Museo del Barrio Project Presentation April 27,2011) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">[]

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Project : Making an Impact (on society)
====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Educator**: Bryan Coburn, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Rock Hill, SC | <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">2010 South Carolina Teacher of the Year ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Grade**: 9th to 12th Grade Pre- <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Engineering

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Background**: The state has been experiencing serious drought conditions for the last 3 years. Climatologists predict inadequate rainfall for the next 5 to 10 years. They are not alone. Approximately 1/3 of the US is at high risk for water shortage. With the recent milestone of 7 billion people in the world raises the need to address this issue.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**Project Mission** (fictitious): South Carolina Water Conservation Committee is providing a $500,000 small business start-up grant to develop an innovative, cost effective and feasibly solution to increase water conservation. A panel of experts has been selected for the grant review committee. The panel consists of 3 engineers from the community and the principal. There were three pre-engineering classes participating. A total of 24 teams with 2 to 4 kids per team.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The proposal included documentation of each step of the design process, a design brief, decision matrix, a model or prototype of your solution, CAD modeling of you solution, and a final presentation to be presented to the grant review committee.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Initial Activity Requirements: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Research and document environmental issues in their community.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Select an issue for which they will design a solution.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Identify community resources related to the designated issue.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Research and design a solution for the environmental issue.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Produce a CAD prototype
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Student will develop a community action plan


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Resulting Project Taks/Products/Tools used: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Weebly Website/Blog for project development and aggregating proposal presentation
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Prototype design using Autodesk Inventor 3D professional modeling tool. Inventor generates a video assemblage of prototype
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Scribd to embed design documents into Website
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Design and produce sales pitch video and Prezi for panel presentations
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Some used GoAnimate for video sales pitch
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Flickr and YouTube to embed images, prototype video and sales video into website and Prezi
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Polleverywhere used for daily polling activities and to illustrate to school administrators what can be done with cells in the classroom.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">NOTE <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">: Issue of ethical behavior came up: An inappropriate post were submitted during class paving the way to address and satisfy a behavioral common core standard.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Bryn Coburn's Pre-Engineering Website. To see the project teams websites for the 3 periods, go to Introduction to Engineering Design: []


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Press Coverage - Feb 6, 2012 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">eSchool News []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Technology "hooks" students at Northwestern High, The Herald Online (Rock Hill, SC)[]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">"Model Classroom" has students cheering, Charlotte Observer | Education (Charlotte, NC)[]


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Impact from the Press coverage: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The article made the front page and was above the fold on Super Bowl Sunday with color photos was a big plus. (Charlotte, NC)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The article was posted on the bulletin board at school that Shawn (the reporter) brought in to Bryan’s superintendent. Shawn is pursuing another editorial on Facebook in schools, which he is collaborating with the school district. Brian(Burnett) provided Facebook-in-the-classroom resources for Shawn’s research.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">BryanC had follow up meetings at the district office regarding his project and for removing YouTube restrictions and other filters. Most importantly, teachers are now being given the power to turn filters on and off now. Before they could not. This project and press coverage started the ball rolling.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Teachers at his school have requested BryanC to hold an in-service training session on this challenge-based learning project in the fall.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">In addition, the University of South Carolina has contacted BryanC about the article.

** Videos **

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Interview with Bryan Coburn discussing his Model Classroom inspired project:

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Bryan Coburn reflecting on how the Model Classroom Summer Institute impacted his teaching:

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