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Project Overview
The "Year One" digital history project will record the events and activities of our first exciting year at Eden Hall Upper Elementary School. Teachers and students will be asked to take digital photos of classroom and school related activites throughout the school year. The photos will be uploaded to the [|VoiceThread]website and stored as a private voice thread. Students from each class will then be asked to reflect on the photos and add their comments. At the end of the school year the voice thread will be downloaded to CD and made available to students and teachers.

ISTE-NETS Standards
1. Creativity and Innovation: a,b 2. Communication and Collaboration: a,b,c,d 4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making: a, b,c 5. Digital Citizenship: a,b,c,d 6. Technology Operations and Concepts: a,b,c,d

Participants
T. Beam, Grade 4 D. Conner, Grade 4 Dayton D. Faux,Grade 6 A. Fetterman, Grade 4 D. King, Grade 5 D. Kunes, Grade 5 D. Newcomer, Reading B. Shenefiel, Library Media Specialist B. Vanderkolk, Grade 4 C. Turner, Computer

Getting Started
There will need to be quite a bit of preplanning to get this project organized. Participating classes will need to sign up in advance. **The deadline for signing up your class is September 19, 2008.** Once your class has signed up you should begin learning about [|VoiceThread] through their tutorials. If you don't have a free account you can create one. I'm hoping to purchase school licensing so that our "Year One" voice thread is on a secure server. (If you'd like more information about the K-12 version of Voice Thread click [|here].) I will be applying for a PROF grant to fund this.

Students will need to have permission slips signed to participate in the project. The permission slip will include permission for both photo and voice to appear on the website. Students who do not have permission will not be able to participate. A link to the permission slip will be available here shortly. Feel free to share the web address of this planning page with parents.

Teachers are asked to begin collecting digital pictures as soon as possible. You can collect still photos, video, and documents. You may want to assign a job of photographer or historian to one or more students in your class. Until we get the voice thread set up you may also want to have students reflect on the photos or activities in writing.

For those teachers who do not have a digital camera, you may sign out either my digital camera or a camcorder for 2 days at a time. If you choose to sign out one of my cameras you do so with the understanding that should the either piece of equipment break or get lost you will be responsible for the repair or replacement of the equipment. I also ask that you return it with the battery charged.