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Michelle Dowell'sAdvanced Physics students are using an electronic textbook, //Principles of Physics//, which integrates simulations into the text. Simulations come in two basic types. One is a simulation that students simply view. The other type of simulation requires the student to vary parameters to observe physical phenomena or to achieve a specific goal. Whereas traditional printed textbooks are static in their presentation of Physics, the power of simulations in the electronic textbook is the ability to view physical phenomena in motion and to manipulate variables to observe effects. || ||  Will Jennings’ and David Webb’s Latin students rebuilt Roman Villas through recreating 2,000-year-old blueprints. With the use of Google Sketchup, they were able to extrude their two dimensional models into three-dimensional realizations of what it might have been like to live in these domiciles. The Latin students cataloged each significant room and its purpose through bitmap decoration, animation, and digital labels. In this project, our Latin students took on the role of modern architects.
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|| “Romeo and Juliet is a timeless tale of forbidden love and feuding families. Audiences since the 15th century have enjoyed and learned lessons from the numerous performances that have been staged.” //
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This is the introduction Annie Delehanty’s students read as they were empowered to design a movie product that included; designing a layered digital poster, justifying casting selection, selecting and pitching scenes, writing out stage directions, and constructing a digital or physical stage design. This immersive project promoted effective problem-based uses of technology and meaningfully connected this “timeless tale” to current figures and cultural concerns.

|| || Have you ever imagined flying through our solar system, or designing your own solar system? Well. . . for Mr. Rogers’ 3D Animation Studio students, this is a reality. They are responsible for building scaled planets and attaching them to orbit paths that imitate actual revolution speeds of all nine of our planets (that is if you consider Pluto a planet). These students are then placed into the role of a movie director as they rig cameras and fly them on a path through their animated solar system. Through the design and development of a virtual solar system, these students obtain an intimate understanding of complex systems and their constituent applications.
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