Meeting at the Crossroads: 
    Enhancing Cross-Curricular Projects with Technology
    National Educational Computing Conference Workshop
    June 27, 2000
    Presenters: Dr. Serena Roberts and Erin Thaler

    This workshop explored instructional strategies that draw on students' multiple intelligences and promote interdisciplinary thinking through project-based activities. Participants used the Internet to collaboratively organize Web-based resources and generate authentic assessment instruments. They were to bring an idea for a unit and potentially related Web resources.

    Agenda

    • Anticipatory Set
    • Interdisciplinary Activities
    • Multiple Intelligence Activities
    • Assessment Instruments


    Participants' Listserv

    • http://www.egroups.com/group/NECCCrossroads


    Selected Participants' Preliminary Unit Tracks
    Name
    Educational Organization
    Grade level/
    Content Area
    Track Title
    Track ID
    Katie Creamer Ola Elementary School 2nd / All Australia 16541
    Vicki Uebele Ola Elementary School 4th / All U.S. Constitution 16549
    Maxine Allen Ola Elementary School 5th / All Immigration 16547
    Mary Bouck Battle Creek Schools Middle school / Math Area and Perimeter 16568
    John Harmon Holy Innocents' Episcopal 7th / Social Studies Oregon Trail 16526
    Valerie Hardy Horace Mann, Math, Science, & Technology 7th / Science and Reading Solar System 16530
    Melissa Bohmer Wyoming High School 9-12 / Social Studies An Expedition to a New Land 16545
    Jodi Fauver Idaho Falls School District 9-12 / Science and Technology Cool, Clear Water 16524
    Jalynn McDonald Lee County Senior High 10 / Biology Metamorphosis 16543
    Philip van Tienhoven C.P.S. 10-12 / Modern Languages Une semaine à Paris 16546
    Mike Rapatan Info Warehouse Tertiary / Communication and Media Literacy Mediamorphosis 16528
    Mike Oswalt Battle Creek Schools Administrative Life of a Water Droplet 16527