Hugh C Williams High School has received an HP award package valued at more than $35,000, which includes five HP Tablet PCs, five HP multimedia projectors, five HP digital cameras, five HP all-in-one printer/scanner/copiers, software and accessories, a cash stipend for each teacher and a professional development program that includes customized learning opportunities, expert mentoring and participation in an online learning community to support teachers’ use of technology.

Using this technology, students in participating science and math classes at Canton Central are collaborating on analyzing complex, real activities captured on video. Science topics to be addressed are projectile motion, force and momentum in sports; biological growth; rates of change; and analysis of chain of events. Students are using technology to extract the data from the video, support the data analysis, share the evolving information, and produce the final report.

Here are the projects my students are doing: