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"Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves and be free." - Cesar Chavez

Winter 2006 - Conexiones Leadership Academy
The goals of the leadership academy were to prepare for Conexiones participation in the MEC conference, learn some exciting new applications, and have fun. By looking at the blog from this week it is clear that all three goals were met.

Fall 2005 - Mi Vida • Nuestra Vida
This fall students built on their knowledge of digital storytelling to develop content for the march debut of the interactive exhibit - Mi Vida • Nuestra Vida - a look at the complex lives of migrants in Arizona.

Summer 2005 - Literacy through Photography
Writing is a critical skill for student success, but getting today's "digital" students emersed in the writing process is often difficult. This summer we used the fields of photography/videography and storytelling to capture student interest in writing.

Winter 2005, Digital Storytelling - Student Portfolios
Digital storytelling meshes the age old art of storytelling with technology. Video and audio allows students to explore their life, and the lives of their family. This session introduced students to the concepts and provided training in the tools of the trade

Summer 2003 Student Work

Summer 2001 Student Work

Summer:2000 Videos
In the summer 2000 program, students learned to convey information effectively, to interpret situations insightfully, and to express their ideas through the application of advanced digital video production and post-production techniques. Approaches of the traditional broadcast and cable medium as well as the emerging field of internet video distribution are explored. A major emphasis of this course was student participation in writing, producing, directing, and electronically editing a video production, along with meaningful criticism and analysis of a variety of video products.

• Arizona State University
• Center for Academic Precocity
• Willis Jr. High

Summer 1999
This summer students from around Arizona were given the opportunity to participate in the Conexiones Lego Engineers, Inc. program. Lego Engineers, Inc. is a technology based training program, developed at ASU, which provides students with the practical real life experience of working with a variety of electronic media resources to research, develop, program, evalutate, market and synthesize information pertaining to the development of an autonomous Lego robot.

Spring 1998- The Mesa Program
This spring students from the Mathematics-Engineering-Science-Achievement (MESA) Program took part in a one hour LEGO Robotics workshop. Take a look at some video from this session.

Fall 1998
This fall students had the chance to design, build and program Lego Programmable Robots. There were two groups of students this year from various parts of the Phoenix Metropolitan area. If you would like to view their work click on one of the links below.

• Willis Junior High
• Arizona State University

Spring 1998
Our goal is to help students develop critical thinking and bilingual literacy skills through the deconstruction of verbal, visual and auditory messages in the media.

Fall 1997
We continue on the success of this past summers newspaper teaching. View some of the students artwork and feedback from this session.

Summer 1997
Students created their first on-line newspaper. The students also developed a print version of the newspaper using Pagemaker. We also participated in a variety of exciting activities and tours ranging from the Mars Thermal Emissions Project to the Nelson Fine Arts Museum. We have posted a day by day explanation of what we did.