Master Student Participates with her Students in the AT&T/MACUL Student Technology Showcase

Students from elementary, middle and high schools throughout Michigan gathered to participate in the eighth annual AT&T/MACUL Student Technology Showcase on November 12, 2008 at the Capitol Building. The showcase was designed to keep legislators apprised of how technology is being used by schools to enhance the education process and help youth successfully transition from the classroom to a career.

Heather Janik, a student in our Master’s of Educational Technology program and a teacher at Mancelona Middle School, participated with her students.  Her students demonstrated their projects which they created using ToonDoo.  Each student created a page to contribute to a grade level comic book on a topic of his/her choice.

Heather explains,

I tried to come up with a project that is engaging and uses digital media.  For the end of the 2007-2008 school year I put together a comic book unit.  This unit was designed, not to focus on the art, as much as it was designed to focus on what makes a comic; the terminology, the parts of a comic, free comic creating resources online, and finally having the kids create their own full page comic.  I found that this was enjoyed by ALL students; not just boys and not just comic readers.

To learn more about Heather’s project please visit http://hmjanik.googlepages.com/finalproject.

To learn more about the event and to see a complete list of participating schools and projects, visit the MACUL Web site at www.macul.org.