The Collaboratory Symposium Video Archive

Click on an image from the scrolling page below to see the videos. Each video is approximately five to seven minutes long. The video is streaming in Windows Media format at 300 kbps, and will stream on both Macintosh and Windows computers. If you cannot see the video, visit Microsoft's website.

The Collaboratory in Your Classroom
Patsy Lindoerfer Mark Twain Elementary School	Dinosaurs Imagine discovering the bones of a dinosaur that lived millions of years ago! As a paleontologist, second graders discover information about dinosaurs.
Cathy Kush Healy Elementary School	Shape Up Third Grade Geometry Students will identify and describe plane and solid shapes by their attributes (number of sides, number of edges, corners/vertices).
Christina Korbakis Moises Guitierrez Inter-American Magnet School	The Daily Life of Mayan Citizens Students will research the daily life of Mayan citizens and present themselves in the role of that Mayan Citizen. Los estudiantes invesrigaran la vida diaria de un ciudadano Maya y la presentaran tomando el papel de esta ciudadano.
Doris Monti John Hay Community Academy	Unsung Heros of the Austin Community Our class is on a mission to discover unsung heroes of the Ausin community. These heroes may sit next to you in class, go to your church or live on your street. Keep your eyes open, in search of the next Austin hero.
Gloria Pogofsky Norwood Park Elementary Marge Rappe Jordan Community School	Steps to Success: Creating Great Science Fair Projects Choosing a meaningful topic that interested students, designing and completing an experiment using the scientific method is applicable to future work experiences. The students used higher order thinking skills to research, record and analyze data. Students became responsible for their work. They have a vested interest in being successful.
Ginger Lumpkin Daley Academy	Air Quality Chicago This project is designed to study and measure the air quality of Chicago and investigate the environmental laws that were mandated to curb air pollution due to environmental ills. The foundation of this project rests on the student's ability to research, analyze and investigate.
Matthew Tuttle Kennedy High School	Freedom Through Fables This collaborative, constructivist unit unites Freshman World Studies and Introduction to Literature (English I). The students will demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the social/cultural, economic, religious, and political injustices that exsisted and exsist today for Africans through a publication of Folk Tales and Fables.
Lunch Speakers Dr. Neil Shulman and Sharon Mnich
Dr. Neil Shulman Doc Hollywood Sharon Mnich WorldPlay	World Play Guest Speaker Neil Shulman, the original "Doc Hollywood," introduces WorldPlay, an international project celebrating the creativity of children through the toys they invent. Sharon Mnich displays one of the toys collected from children around the world. Students use bits and pieces of wire, scraps of cloth, bottle caps and other discarded items, as their imaginations come alive to form their own versions of playthings that uniquely express their culture.
Integrating the Collaboratory into the Student Teaching Experience
Christine Collins - Student Teacher Salt Creek Elementary School	Underwater Advertures: Exploring Ocean Life Students will learn about oceans and ocean life. After classroom activities and research, students will make ocean dioramas and a written presentation about the fish of their choice. This is the place to begin studying the underwater world of the ocean. Many different kinds of fish live in the ocean. You will learn about a wide variety of fish, as well as the different environments within the ocean itself. Take a deep breath and let's explore!
Susan Ambler - Student Teacher Forest View Elementary School Lois Hickey Forest View Elementary School	Ethnic Foods of our Classroom Each and every culture has a recipe that they enjoy during the holidays, birthdays, or any time during the year that may have become a family tradition! Learn about other cultures and share your recipes with your classmates to find out how the family tradition began. You will read the recipes from your classmates and the summary that they wrote concerning the origin of the recipe. You will be able to notice where the recipe came from and possibly their ethnic background.
Harriet Herrera Community Consolidated School District 59	Integrating the Collaboratory into the Student Teaching Experience Teacher mentors developed projects for the student teachers and clinical students using the Collaboratory. The Collaboratory goes beyond CD's and computer programs to provide a mechanism for applying best practices to the technology component. Our district plans to get more teachers involved and continue using the number of resources provided by the Collaboratory.
Lights! Camera! Action! The Ezine in the Classroom
Jay Wojick Lombard High School Tom Buller Lombard High School	Lights! Camera! Action! The Ezine in the Classroom The ability to combine Streaming Video Clips with on-line information highlighting district events has been an extremely valuable addition to our communication efforts. It expanded our reach beyond the printed newsletter and even surpassed the reach of our monthly cable show because the web is accessible 24/7. Streaming Video promotes community support and involvement. It provide a tool to give stakeholders, individuals both with and without children, a peek at how their tax dollars are being spent to provide opportunity for highest student achievement.
Linda Smentek Hayt Elementary School
Staff Development and the Collaboratory
Bill Chapin Warren Township High School	Staff Development and the Collaboratory Cole 2001 allows adminitrators responsible for staff development, to overcome obstacles of time, skill levels and substitute teachers. Teachers experienced the Collaboratory as students, learned to take an online course and learned to develop and teach an online project. The teachers, librarians and administrators worked in teams to support each other during the learning experience.
Carolyn Zachary Rosenwald Middle School
Minerva Garcia-Sanchez Chicago Public Schools

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