Overpass

Build Your Arguments to Safely Cross

Y2 Design Cycle I: 2012 – < 3 months

 

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Linky

Collecting Images, Making Connections

Y2 Design Cycle I: 2012 < 3 months

 

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QueryUs

Making Sense Out of BIG Data

Y2 Design Cycle I: 2012 – < 3 months

 

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Reading Robot

An Active Reading Strategy App

Y1 Design Cycle II: 2012 – 3.5 months

 

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Evident.ly

A Community for the Curious

Y1 Design Cycle II: 2012 – 3.5 months

 

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Discussion Spawn

Rethinking Discussion Boards & Debate Spaces

Y1 Design Cycle I: 2011 – 3 months

  • Flexible drag and drop graphic interface
  • Engage in organized and visualized discussion
  • Multi-media discussion prompts and response types
  • Be able to follow macro and micro conversations
  • Dynamic data on learner participation and word choices

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My Learning Story

Interactive Narrative Visualization of Progress

Y1 Design Cycle I: 2011 – 3 months

  • Daily collection of meaningful learning actions
  • Visualized personal learning process trends
  • Support learner reflections and goal setting
  • Facilitate teacher and learner conversations
  • Transform into sharable, printed books

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Time Traveling Tech Support

Exploring Electronics Missions

Y1 Design Cycle I: 2011 – 3 months

  • Introduced through a comic narrative
  • Web-based series of inter-linked electronics missions
  • Sandbox-like space for self-directed exploration in building electronics

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Real ‘Em In

Connecting to “Hooks” in Popular Media

Y1 Design Cycle I: 2011 – 3 months

  • Popular culture as rich source of effective “hooks” to understand academic concepts
  • Riff off the appeal of shows like Mythbusters and tools like Delicious
  • Support teachers in finding and organizing hooks

Read Rap Rock

Reading Through Karaoke Style Game

Y1 Design Cycle I: 2011 – 3 months

  • Practice enhanced through musical rhythms and images
  • Turn mundane phonics word lists, sentences and stories into an interactive karaoke style game
  • Students grouped and “battle” by singing along to a part of a word, a full word, or sentence
  • Teacher, along with the other students, provide feedback to the student that makes a mistake
  • Inspired from “rap battles” where two rappers go head to head with the crowd making judgments on who “won”