Sharing
our HyperBook with Others
After
each student finished his or her page of the HyperBook, I wrote the
entire project onto a c.d., including the "About the Authors" page
where readers can hear the authors tell about themselves. As a class,
we spent time in the computer lab so that the students could learn to
navigate through the HyperBook themselves, reading each other's
stories and hearing their classmates tell about themselves.
We then planned a
night for the parents to come to school and view
our
HyperBook about our holiday traditions. Before the Parent's Night,
students practiced for the special event by teaching classmates how
to navigate through the book as though they were teaching their
parents.
Bringing parents to
school was a wonderful way to strengthen the home-school connection.
It was also a great way to show off the 
incredible
ways that students are using technology in school. I briefly thanked
the parents for coming, explained to them the hard work the students
had put into the HyperBook, and then I allowed the students to take
over and show off their HyperStudio project to their parents. In a
letter
to the parents,
I included a purchase form so that parents could buy the
c.d.
for themselves or as Christmas gifts for friends and family. The
Parent Night was a huge success as the parents became students and
the students became teachers. This awesome use of technology made
their authorship all the more exciting.
MCOATT/Standard C/Standard D/Standard E/HyperStudio Project/PIViT Projects