The interface is designed as a wiki, so anyone can add or edit content.... I don't know if this is an open source tool, but if it is, it is something that I'm going to work to put up on our school server so that so we can have a student sandbox and have our students play with this.
Read MoreAt Lewis Elementary, our music/technology teacher Tony Jamesbarry has been introducing his students to Comic Life. The students are using Comic Life to create how to guides for school routines and procedures.
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Read MoreThe Lewis Elementary PTA is putting on a spring carnival this coming Saturday, May 27. I wanted to note that the poster for the event was created by Lewis parent Shannon Wheeler, author of the Too Much Coffee Man comic and web site.
Read MoreThis year the VBC will be working with Lewis to help build an outdoor classroom structure in the Lewis Outdoor Center.... As part of our participation in the Village Building Convergence, natural builder James Thomson will be working with students and staff during the VBC to construct a cob bench in the outdoor center.
Read MoreThe Spectator Online - Spring Art Show 2006
“My motive and intention is to allow for all who come into contact with these posters to do the same and have a true dialogue about what is being presented,”
The rap on recess: Elementary schools in lower income areas offer less recess and less overall time for exercise than other schools. USA Today reports that, according to the report, "Public schools with more wealthy children get, on average, about 50 percent more recess a day than those with the most low-income students."
Read MoreIn my day, we thought calculators were neat: The Maine Learning Technology Initiative is an innovative program that equips every one of the state's public middle-school students with a laptop computer.... They accepted, and now it looks like Maine will be the first state in the US to have Google Earth, SketchUp Pro, and the 3D Warehouse available to every student, teacher, librarian, and administrator who wants it.
Read MoreMy site has been down for about a week with a DNS issue.... Not that anyone missed anything while I was gone...
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Parent Car Wash,
originally uploaded by lewiselementary.
As part of Staff Appreciation Week at Lewis Elementary, parents and students put on a car wash for staff members...