GENERATION YES

Students from Ingram Middle and Pleasanton Intermediate schools impressed hundreds of educators with their projects and GenYES spirit. Many thanks to GenYES teachers Ms. Pamela Hailey and Ms. Denise Petter, for sharing their time and students with us. Ms. Hailey reports that the students were honored at a school board meeting and they are still on cloud nine.

In addition, Laura Davidson from Hondo High School was invited to the pre-conference Technology Applications Teacher Network event to present as a master technology teacher. She wowed the audience with a DVD of her GenYES class demonstrating their confidence and technological fluency as they support teachers throughout Hondo High.

GenYES super-alum Ryan Powell, whom many of you know from GenYES videos, stopped by to show his support for Generation YES and interact with the next generation of GenYES students. We love meeting GenYES students from all over the country!

Pictures from TCEA are here: https://genyes.org/programs/supplemental/tceaphoto

Forward,
Dennis Harper

What's New at Generation YES
Student Tech Support Gets Noticed
The February issue of District Administration Magazine has quotes from Dennis Harper and New York GenYES guru Greg Partch about how students can provide valuable assistance in maintaining hardware, software, and networks. Generation TECH (https://www.genyes.org/programs/gentech) provides curriculum, assessment, and management tools to schools to help establish a student tech support program.
https://www.districtadministration.com/page.cfm?p=638

Maryland GenYES Student Project CD-ROM
During the 2002-2003 school year, 52 Maryland schools delivered the GenYES model as part of a State Department of Education Initiative as part of their No Child Left Behind implementation. The Maryland GenYES Partnership has produced a CD highlighting more than 50 of the hundreds of projects produced by students and teachers. The CD will be distributed widely throughout the state by host district Prince George's County Public Schools.

Student Showcase
La Point, Wisconsin Elementary School Students Make History Come Alive
The GenYES students in this tiny Lake Superior island school are making a large impact on both their school and community. As they prepared for a visit to the Smithsonian Exhibit entitled: Barn Again, these GenYES students decided to investigate the mostly abandoned barns on their own Madeline Island. Combining technology with old fashioned investigative reporting, these students produced videos, a web site, and a presentation comprised of interviews with local residents and research on the history of farming on the island. Congratulations to these students for making history come alive in their own community!
https://genyes.org/news/

Veteran GenYES School Hosts Japanese Education Technology Team
GenYES students from Washington Middle School in Olympia, WA provided a Japanese delegation a glimpse of what a mature GenYES school looks like. As a result of the visit, eight-year veteran GenYES teacher Marilyn Piper, has been invited to share her experiences with teachers from all over Japan at a prestigious educational conference later this year. Go Marilyn!

Tech Tips Plus
PowerPoint Producer - Free!
This free plug-in for PowerPoint lets you capture, synchronize, and publish audio, video, slides, and images to create rich-media presentations viewable in a browser. You have to have PowerPoint 2002 or higher to use this, and the Producer software only runs in Windows. However, the presentations you make will be viewable in any browser on any operating system.
https://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/producer/prodinfo/default.mspx

Inspriational Book for Teachers
Teaching Day by Day: 180 Stories to Help You Along the Way. "In Teaching Day by Day, Graves exhibits the same uncommon insight, unwavering support, and unbounded hope for the future that made his best-selling book The Energy to Teach such an inspiration to teachers." Funny or tragic, but always heartfelt, these stories capture what it is to be a teacher, day by day, child by child.
https://heinemann.com/shared/products/E00598.asp

Multimedia Resources for Creative Classrooms
This website has a great collection of tips, help guides, tools and ideas for classroom media production. From web radio to DVDs, educator Gary Stager provides a voice of experience for those with Hollywood dreams and shoestring budgets.
https://www.stager.org/multimedia

From the "Things You Didn't Know You Wanted" Department
Trans Lucy is a Mac DVD player that allows you to work on other applications while also viewing a DVD at the same time. You can "see through" the DVD image, allowing you to watch an instructional DVD at the same time you are working on the program. Just one example of the things you can do, you'll think of others! From CE Software at
https://www.cesoft.com/products/translucy.html

News You Can Use
Creator of Ctrl-Alt-Del Reboots Career
David Bradley is retiring from IBM after 28 years. In 1980 he programmed Ctrl-Alt-Del as the special key combination to restart a computer. He says he chose those keys specifically because it's not a key sequence that can be struck by accident. Not expecting to become famous, he has been mentioned as a clue on Jeopardy, been featured at conferences, and rescued thousands of computer users from frozen computers.
https://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/01/29/ctrlaltdelete.man.ap/

Online Lab To Connect Young Student Scientists Around the World
Students in grades 6-8 will perform experiments using Digital Blue's QX3+ Computer Microscope, and post and analyze the digital images on a "virtual lab" Web site.
https://www.centerdigitaled.com/converge/?pg=magstory&id;=83021

Culture Quest Takes Off
Our good friend, Dr. Sheila Gersch of the City College of the City University of New York, helps direct the Culture Quest project which seeks to promote better understanding and appreciation of other cultures, strengthen inquiry, research and literacy skills and provide students with technology skills for the 21st century.
https://www.culturequest.us/