Thursday, May 15, 2008
Adobe Posts Case Study on Ferryway Waterwheels
Waterwheels are an important aspect of the Saugus Iron Works project. Understanding that water powered early colonial industry is a critical learning objective of the unit of study called the Saugus Iron Works Great Adventure. 
If you've been following the SIW blog you know that our focus is to leverage the web to promote an integrated, multi-modal learning experience for fifth graders. You need to be able to merge best teaching practices with new instructional technologies in order to make it happen. Adobe Education Leader (AEL), Robert Simpson, collaborated on an Adobe case study to help explain how an Adobe software program know as Presenter (formerly Breeze) made a major contribution to teaching the engineering concepts that describe waterwheels. As an AEL, Simpson has access to Adobe software solutions experimenting on their use in K-12 classrooms. As the case study clearly points out, the knowledge of content experts can be effectively captured using multimedia solutions such as Presenter. I look forward to implementing this powerful learning strategy in more classrooms.
If you've been following the SIW blog you know that our focus is to leverage the web to promote an integrated, multi-modal learning experience for fifth graders. You need to be able to merge best teaching practices with new instructional technologies in order to make it happen. Adobe Education Leader (AEL), Robert Simpson, collaborated on an Adobe case study to help explain how an Adobe software program know as Presenter (formerly Breeze) made a major contribution to teaching the engineering concepts that describe waterwheels. As an AEL, Simpson has access to Adobe software solutions experimenting on their use in K-12 classrooms. As the case study clearly points out, the knowledge of content experts can be effectively captured using multimedia solutions such as Presenter. I look forward to implementing this powerful learning strategy in more classrooms.Labels: "Adobe Education Leader", Adobe, Adobe+presenter, waterwheel
