SchoolTech Chicago

Steve Feld
title: Computer Graphics Instructor
school: John F. Kennedy High School
address: 99 Terrace View Avenue
city: Bronx
state: NY
zip: 10463
email: sjfeld@erols.com
fax: 718 562 5132
wphone: 718 562 5500 x 464
v_street: Post Office Box 91
v_city: New York
v_state: NY
v_zip: 10034
copresenter: Sokallyn In, Ronald Odoki, Daniel Mena
title: Students
copresenter_school: 
leading_typeA: hands_on
PC: pc

presentation: Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling? - International ThinkQuest Collaboratve Web Site Design

summary: John F. Kennedy High School students collaborate with partners in Sweden to investigate the centuries old enigma, "Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling?" As their medium of communication the students created a compelling , engaging and resource-rich web site - using 15 year old computers! The web site explores key issues on this topic in a variety of subject areas.

Through their communication with students throughout the world, are also enhancing their understanding of other cultures. Students create and send musical postcards to other students. Users hear original Da Vinci music, discover a dozen Da Vinci diversions or watch the morphing of Mona Lisa. They can even take an online interactive quiz.

The site has been chosen for exhibition at The Getty Museum of Art in Los Angeles, The Boston Museum of Science, The Vatican Museum, The Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum. of Science and Technology in London, Milan, Israel and Kyoto Japan.

The address is /13681/data/davin2.shtml approach: The session will be a hands-on participant centered interactive one. It will be jointly led bt Mr. Feld, the ThinkQuest project team coach, and by the students Ronald Idoko, Daniel Mena and Sokallyan In. Within the limited time frame participants will be introduced to inquiry driven Internet learning style techniques that have contributed to this widely used web site's ongoing evolution.

Objectives of Session

• To introduce participants to the ways in which a problem construct can be used as the pivital focus for web site evolution.
• To examine how Internet resources and learning style can be tapped by student monitoring collaboratively with distanced (Sweden, Japan) peers to develop captivating multisector web resource.
• To document how a single web based classroom inquiry can affect school community Internet teaching and learning.

  Methods:

• Students will initially present the key project construct "Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling?" to participants and elicit their response.
• They will then share the history of this Bronx High School / Borlange Sweden ThinkQuest project and introduce participants to online presentations of Lillian Schwartz's research and Rina de Firenze's perspective.
• Next, participants will hear original music composed by Leonardo da Vinci.
• Students and Mr. Feld will posit the issue of web equity and access for the physically challenged. Participants will offer ways these issues can be addressed through web site construction. Mr. Feld will explain how the web site is accessible to populations with special needs. .
• Participants will visit the guestbook and come up with the ways in which this component can develop and nurture a multisector audience. They will be able to sign the guestbook with their own response to the construct or other visitor's responses. Participants will also visit the site map, digital post cards, and sample curricula, so they can bookmark resources for future visits.
• Participants will share their initial understandings of how this classroom web site can permeate school and community culture.
• Mr. Feld and students will share their insights on the project.
• Participants will be alerted to site coach authored articles, research links and press coverage.

  target: tech_novice
  target: expert
  target: teacher
  target: admin
  grade: primary
  grade: elementary
  grade: Intermediate
  grade: high_school
  platform: all
  equipment: dos_windows
  other_equip: internet
  other_equip: projection_device_screen
  other_equip: vcr
  other_equip: tv
  

  qualifications:
  Steve Feld is a Grand Prize winner of the Computer Learning Foundation, and was part of the SchoolTech Expo Caroline McCullen's Web Publishing panel. His students presented at SchoolTech's Classroom of the Future Both presentations were well received. The students were written up in an article in ZD Net. He authored computer curriculum for the NYC Board of Education. He was the first President of the New York State Media Arts Teachers Association and led a Workshop at the city wide Make It Work Conference in New York City. This past summer he presented a similar program at the Siggraph'99 Conference in Los Angeles.

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  Form Description: CHICAGO Call For Presenters
  Date=12/30/99
   
  
  
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