Course+Needs

The use of individual Netbooks to augment computer resources in classrooms will maintain student-led, interactive learning environments, while still allowing teachers to direct a traditional classroom when it benefits the educational initiative.
 * Netbooks: **

Email is crucial to the success of students in this class and beyond high school. A school gmail account with access to google docs, forms, calendars, etc would be ideal.
 * Email: **

Access to web content and networking will increase the transfer to life beyond high school.
 * Web:**
 * Twitter - Students can read current thoughts and articles that relate to individual projects. Students can connect to people who are already out of high school and are working, studying, or criticizing related topics. Students can report/document their process and experiences.
 * LinkedIn - Students can find people local and abroad who are professionals in fields related to their project. Students can begin to represent themselves as professionals and share their project.
 * Diigo - Students can collect and organize their research and connections. Students can annotate articles, websites, and networking experiences.
 * More...

While students will be responsible for locating texts that are relevant to their unique projects, there will also be some texts that all students will read. These will be connected to practical and thematic threads.
 * Texts**:
 * A writing resource?
 * Subscriptions
 * Into the Wild
 * Everything's an Argument
 * More...

Grants to Improve Teaching and Learning
 * Grants:**

Donors Digital Wish Adopt a Classroom Donors Choose

In order to be successful, there will be occasions where students will need to break some of the constitutional barriers and interact with the school and the community as adults.
 * Permissions:**
 * Contracts - Students' project proposals could include a contract that states the conditions of their permission to access the web, to use the school building as their classroom, to go out into the community, and more.