Link to the Annual Student Technology Conference Members of the Skowhegan Area Middle School Tech Team organized lessons to teach other students from across the state of Maine. The sessions were very well attended and our students were very well prepared to give most informative sessions on the topics listed below. At the end of the day, all students gathered in the auditorium for a session on Google Earth. Commissioner Gendron was captured on video chat as students posed the question to her....Why couldn't middle level students attend school at a reasonable hour (later in the AM)? Sweet Home 3D (Laura Richter & Students - Skowhegan Middle School)
Have you ever designed a house before? We will show you how to design
a 3D model of a room, entire house, or business using a program called
Sweet Home 3D. You will be able to 'paint' your walls, add and import
furniture, and do some landscaping to your dream home. As you create
your building you will be able to 'walk' through it using the virtual
visitor. We'll give you an introduction to Sweet Home 3D and give you
time to create your very own Sweet Home! Block 1, from 9:20 - 10:20 -
Little Hall 140 Steven Ek, Brian LaPointe and Brandon Wilson Gimp & Comic Strip Design (Scott Bosworth & Students - Skowhegan Middle School) Have you ever dreamed of being a comic book artist or an illustrator? Well, now there is a program called Gimp that can help you do just that. Gimp is a program for editing pictures thats uses layers to help organize your image. You can create special effects to add artistic pizazz to your photos. You can design name tags, create characters or just experiment. You can then put your new image creations into Comic Life to create your own personal comic book. Shelby Watson, Alana Wacome and Dallas Hutchinson.Offered twice: Block 1 & Block 2, from 9:20 - 10:20 & 10:40 - 11:40 - Jenness 100 The Past Meets The Future! Help Your Town's History Come to Life! (Laura Richter & Students - Skowhegan Middle School) Have you ever wanted to get involved with helping out your town by providing visitors and residents with a lively, informative and interesting podcast about the history of the area? Well, we can show you how to access old photographs of your town, import them into iPhoto and make a nice podcast in Garage Band. Your whole town will thank you over and over! Block 2 from 10:40 - 11:40 - Little Hall 140 Logan Summers and Aly Coombs |
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