SHS Teachers and Student Present Web Project at University of Southern California

Starkville High School English teacher Nancy Jacobs, recipient of one of three Corporation for Public Broadcasting grants awarded in Mississippi, eleventh grade English teacher Ann Smith, and student Chris Wade, an eleventh grader at SHS, just returned from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where they presented their Next-Step Grant project: Mississippi Writers and Musicians on the Web. The trio presented two sessions at the Ernest L. Boyer Technology Summit for Educators. Both sessions were filmed by KCET, the PBS station for southern and central California. The three discussed the process by which they have engaged students in reading books by Mississippi writers, in writing about Mississippi writers and Mississippi musicians , and in searching the internet for information about these people so that this information can by placed on the World Wide Web where everyone will have access to it.

The technology summit (held April 25, 26, 27, 1997 ) was sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, whose goal is to help educators who CPB believes have a substantial impact on critical issues facing our time, to use the new technology for sharing ideas, educating students, and shaping lives in new and exciting ways.

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