• Grand prize winner Carla Hockenbury's Whole Language with PowerPoint lesson plan for grades 6 to 8 guides the use of student-created PowerPoint presentations to use Internet resources on the whole language theme. Check out what students have created on:
  • Entertainment options during colonial times
  • Stereotypes about women during the American Revolution
  • Discussion of the X-files
  • History of Llansteffan castle
• Kim Reeves presents first-graders planning a garden using Neighborhood Map Machine software.
• Maureen Guenther's project involves PowerPoint creations in Grades 3 to 5, including a sample of student work on the Bottlenose Dolphin.
• Mary Rydzewski encourages students to discuss bias and disinformation on the Internet and in the print media.
• Lyndya Kozicz Leahey's entry features Tessellations created in Microsoft Paint

Highlights from other entries:

• Debbie Sterling has created a complete digital portfolio template for grades five through eight
• Georgeann Schenker's entry teaches students how to market flowers
• Judy Caratlo's entry features some heartwarming Mother's Day cards including "Are you a favorite mom"?!
• Kathleen Gomes' entry features students tracking the Iditarod race
• Diane Avrin's guessing game on the planets
• Michael Crowell guides discussion about the development of the atomic bomb
• Jeffery Forney's students write family histories in Spanish
• Ron Lane discusses the use of e-mail in short story writing
• Roy Law has created a website to teach about Washington DC
• Miriam Martin's entry examines tadpoles with digital cameras
• Mark Gresham's entry discusses salary searches on the Internet