Port Jefferson students exhibited their technological abilities
alongside hundreds of Long Island school districts at the eighth
annual Celebration of Technology in Education at Stony Brook
University, hosted by the Eastern Suffolk BOCES Model Schools
Program. For weeks, the students worked with their teachers to
develop a computer presentation for the event, and the results
were both exciting and ones that can be easily utilized in
classroom instruction. Using SMART Board technology, Monica
Consalvo and Christine Austen worked with seventh graders to
create a Scene It style game board with questions linked to New
York State learning standards. The students redesigned the
original game board to mimic the floor plan of a school building
equipped with desks that are linked to curriculum-based question
cards. The game is won when a player answers the questions
correctly and exits the school building to the awaiting school
bus. Teacher Carla Greco and her students demonstrated the use
of SMART Board technology to