Schools these days are exciting places to work in, for teachers and pupils alike. Multi-media software and Internet tools offer endless possibilities to
promote and foster
learning right across the curriculum. The pupils of the "Special Class" here in
Edmund Rice Primary School,Tramore worked with a Third Grade class in Galesburg, Illinois.
Initially, we were to work with a higher grade class , but due to circumstances beyond our
control, this did not work out. The project has proved very beneficial to both sets of
students and teachers, and has introduced them to such areas as --: editing text and
graphics,scanning and image editing,sound files, problems encountered when working with
cross platforms, and the structure and layout of a website.The project is laid out as follows:
- Introduction to Project
- Profile of Schools
- Meet the Groups
- Meet the Teachers
- Our School Day
- Life Outside School
- Schools of the Future
- Joint Story
- Link to Main School Site
I would like to say a special thanks to Mrs. Sally Nelson from Raymond Marquith Elementary School for all her support, hard work and enthusiasm which she and her pupils showed in working through this project. A special word of thanks to my own class, who worked under severe pressure to see the project through to its conclusion. We hope you enjoy our project as much as we enjoyed putting it together. I would also like to thank the Battye family for their support.
Liam O'Neachtain
Class Teacher
Sources of the project.
The main sources of the project has been the children's own experience. For a number of
the images we searched the Internet for animated gifs, pictures of computer related
items, and information about Jamaica and Galesburg.. The pupils put their text work on to
disc, which was transfered to a main folder on the teacher's machine..
Most of the photographs were taken by the pupils themselves using a
digital camera. All information including text and graphics were e-mailed from Galesburg
to Tramore, where it was edited and assembled using Microsoft Frontpage 98. This proved
hard work initiallly but after a few dry runs most of the pupils managed to work on their
own pages.