Digital Leaders

We have student leadership teams in our elementary buildings.  Each team is designed to help promote digital citizenship and 21st century ISTE standards.  Unique. Individual.  Student centered.
​
In Mrs. Notton's sixth grade classroom at Cody Elementary School in LeClaire, students are meeting over lunch to help them determine how to keep digital citizenship principles moving forward in the building. They are putting together a survey for students in grades 3-6 to identify how digital citizenship concepts that were discussed in early fall are impacting current behaviors and habits. Stay tuned!
Students in Mrs. Reyes' room at Pleasant View Elementary School helped host a Tech Ed Camp for two sixth grade rooms to teach iMovie, Adobe Spark Video, Adobe Pages and Padlet to their peers.  However, their work is not for students alone.  They are sharing their knowledge of how to utilize Google Drive efficiently during an after school informational session with teachers.  Most recently, they have sent out a survey to teachers to determine their next after school tech training.  In November, they held a "How to organize your Google Drive folders" class for staff. This spring, they have prepared a tutorial class for teachers on using the app Flipgrid.
 Picture
Picture
 #PVProductions is the hashtag for Pleasant Valley student created work. Episode #1  of This I Believe is now posted below. The students wrote and created this podcast completely on their own.  They believe strongly in the power of  being a positive digital citizen.  We learned a great deal from this first episode regarding the 'tech' end and will definitely make some changes for episode #2.  But, we also believe in the power of embracing our mistakes and failures so that we can improve and work to make the next episode better.  So please excuse any of the technical imperfections that are part of this first episode. 
​
(update: While this group has now moved on to junior high, they created three different podcasts and were a catalyst for initiating podcasts in the Pleasant Valley School District.  Digital Leader teams are being formed in various buildings and updates on their work will be featured soon.