Sample GenYES Student Projects and Tasks

No matter if the GenYES students meet as a class or as a club, the GenYES Advisor prepares and coaches the students and provides adult leadership for the tasks the students take on at the school. During GenYES meetings, students learn technology, collaboration skills, and how technology can improve learning. Only after that foundation is established do GenYES students partner with teachers or provide tech support.

What do GenYES students do?
Technology integration - Help a teacher with a project that integrates technology into that teacher’s classroom.
  • Create a multimedia presentation for a teacher to use in a lesson
  • Teach a class how to use video equipment and video production software for a class assignment
  • Teach a teacher how to create customized active whiteboard activities
  • Build a website with links to lesson resources
  • Learn to use district classroom management software and help a teacher put lessons online
  • Maintain a school podcast channel and offer to record teacher lessons to put online
Teach Technology - Help teachers and other adults by teaching them how to use technology applications
  • Show a teacher how to synchronize an interactive white board
  • Train a teacher how to use a video/multimedia subscription service to find educational resources
  • Explain to teachers how they can keep their website updated
Technology Infrastructure support - Fix and prevent technology problems found on school campus Be on call to fix problems with classroom technology
  • Refurbish, maintain, and repair computers
  • Create help guides or training resources related the school’s hardware, software, or network infrastructure
  • Attend vendor training for new hardware or software
  • Assist IT staff with technology support tasks as needed

GenYES Projects

View GenYES projects from students in real elementary, middle, and high schools across the country.

GenYES Projects on the Apple Learning Interchange (ALI)

Arizona Schools ALI Exhibit - Our GenYES Implementation
Two Arizona elementary schools offer an in-depth view on how they implemented the GenYES program. Complete with videos and thorough explanations of student work, teacher work, assessment, and reflections this page offers a wonderful look into the program. This documentary was provided by a partnership between Apple Learning Exchange and the two elementary schools.

Living History - A GenYES Project on ALI (High School)
GenYES student Sean Connolly created a project that was not only selected for the GenYES Student Projects DVD, but was also featured on the Apple Learning Interchange, an online showcase of technology integrated lessons.

At the time, Sean Connolly was a tenth grade student at Hudson Falls High School in Hudson Falls, NY and had participated in a GenYES class taught by Ms. Layden. He partnered with history teacher Mr. Matthew Rozell to create a project: WWII Living History: Using Digital Video to Appreciate Veterans. Read more about this fascinating project on the ALI website.

GenYES Student Project Sites on the GenYES Blog

Blog entries. Read about current GenYES projects.

Links to school GenYES and TechYES sites. Scroll down on right side to see "Generation YES Schools"

Other questions about what GenYES projects look like?

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