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Brookside Studio - The Brookside Studio is in full operation, allowing students the opportunity to produce and broadcast morning announcements. Morning announcements are viewed in every classroom on Channel 54. Thanks to the efforts of our parents and students during a Spellathon, 27" televisions were installed in all classes. Every student has the opportunity to sit at the anchor desk before school ends in June. Students in Grades 5 and 6 share many duties behind the scenes including: operating the cameras, lights and microphones and acting as stage managers and directors.

Staff and students are exploring many ways to incorporate video as a way of communicating the learning that is going on in the various subject areas. Special projects and events are being documented and shared with parents and other grade levels. It is exciting to see what is happening in other classes. When grade 3 had eggs in an incubator, the camera captured the eggs hatching for everyone. Our Science Quest event will be recorded so that everyone can view the displays and presentations. We thank the Edmonton Lotteries Board and the Brookside School Council for the funding that brought our studio to life!


• Character Education - Brookside is a caring and supportive community. In order to enhance good citizenship, we will focus on guiding students to know and encourage them to pursue what is good and worthwhile through Character Education. Our school will continue to follow-up on Michele Borba’s work in her book Building Moral Intelligence. The seven virtues are empathy, conscience, self-control, respect, kindness, tolerance and fairness. Our current Character Education focus can be found on the What's New page.
• Fine Arts -
  • We bring in three to four performing artist groups throughout the year. Each child pays $10 to participate in this wonderful program. This years performances will be posted on the What’s New page as they are arranged.
    
    
  • Artist in Residence Program - We have received funding from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts for an Artist in Residence who will come work with Brookside Students in the fall. The specifics of this years project are to be announced.






• Electronic Bulletin Board - We have a television monitor installed in our front entrance. This has enabled us to air morning announcements (see Brookside Studio), showcase student work and events, increase our home and school communication, and continue to deliver the ICT Curriculum (Information and Communication Technology) in integrated ways. Mrs. Picard, our curriculum co-ordinator and French teacher, single-handedly accrued funding for this project through the Edmonton Lotteries Foundation. In the spring of 2001 she wrote a grant proposal for the purchase of this equipment, which now belongs to the Brookside School community.




• Learning with Computers - Grades 1-6 have a 30 minute computer class each week. Students are enthusiastic and they are making every minute count during their scheduled time. Classes usually have at least one other scheduled period of time with their own teacher each week. There is rarely a moment in the day that our computer lab is not humming with activity.

  SmartBoard's are now used in most classrooms. A Smart Board is an interactive whiteboard with a touch-sensitive screen that connects to a computer. A digital projector displays the computer image onto the screen and you simply touch the surface to control applications and write notes. Your finger or handheld stylus is the mouse. A Smart Board supports the integration of technology across all the subject areas of the entire curriculum and across the full spectrum of grades at our school, from Kindergarten to Grade 6.

  Brookside also has access to the Online Reference Center, which consists of references newly-licensed by Alberta Learning, and provided free to all Alberta students, their families, and school staff, to use at school or at home. This is a powerful new tool for teachers. Containing full-text magazines, over six encyclopedias, and the Canadian Encyclopedia, this site is a perfect resource when searching for information. These resources offer excellent support for the new English Language Arts, the Social Studies and the Information and Communications Programs of Study. Alberta Learning has licensed these resources for three years. There is a counter on the site, so that Alberta Learning will be able to evaluate the extent to which the resources are used. The online Reference Center includes:
  

  • Electric Library (includes World Book and Canadian Encyclopedia (not multimedia) and magazine articles for older students)
  • Sirs Discoverer (magazine articles for younger students)
  • Grolier (includes Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, New Book of Knowledge, Encyclopedia Americana, Lands and Peoples, and the New Book of Popular Science, also a Spanish Encyclopedia)
  • Canadian Encyclopedia (multimedia version, also in French)
  
  This site can be accessed from home by staff, students and parents. To do so, contact the school for our user ID and password then go to
  http://www.learnalberta.ca/onlinereferencecenter.aspx

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