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January 13, 2011

Students use Google Earth to explore the history of West

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By ABBIE TUMBLESON West Yellowstone News

West Yellowstone eleventh-grade American Literature students took storytelling to the next level with the help of technology. West Yellowstone School librarian and technology teacher Jo Stevens and English teacher Sherrie Williams worked together to create a digital collaborative learning project for the American Lit class. The class has been reading letters, journals and diaries about the lives of different people including John Smith and texts from the Salem Witch Trials. The texts are rich with information on how people lived their lives in different environments. “It wasn’t leisurely reading. It was informative. They read nonfiction materials,” Williams said.

http://www.westyellowstonenews.com/news/article_478521de-167c-11e0-afa2-001cc4c03286.html

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