Innovative technology will be helping first graders learn from their work and other work. A visual presenter is a color video camera mounted on a moveable arm that is positioned over a large base on which objects can be placed. The teacher and students can look together at student work, text and illustrations immediately. For example, it will be used to share examples of descriptive language in a picture book, and to share and compare the illustrations in picture books. This can be done in real time, as the lesson occurs and ideas are bouncing from one child to another.

Grant requested by Shawn Knapp, Center Elementary School