b a r n e t t g u i d e

The Barnett Guide 95 is a classroom project put together by the 125 students taking Computer Literacy under Mr. Garton. The Guide is an interactive application that describes alot of Barnett Junior High School to outside readers. Sort of an electronic yearbook. The target audience for the Barnett Guide was the 5th and 6th graders in our cluster, to give them some idea about was to expect as they made the transistion from elementary to junior high. After the HyperCard stack was compiled into a self-running application, the Guide was delivered to our nearby elementary schools to be installed in their labs.
The sections of the Barnett Guide 95 are made up of individual writing assignments given my one hundred thirty plus students. They were written in ClarisWorks on Macintosh LCIIIs. The assignments were 'handed-in' over the network AppleShare server.
Students from each class were broken up into separate groups to prepare the Barnett Guide 95. These groups were Editors, Artists, Interviewers, Writers, and Typists. Artists scanned in artwork with an Apple OneColor scanner, or took photos directly with an Apple QuickTake 100 digital camera. Interviewers met with many of our teachers and asked in-depth questions about their teaching style and background. The Typists listened to these audio tapes and typed what they heard into ClarisWorks. We had one student, Blake Brigham, play the guitar for some musical interludes, that were digitalized and inserted. All this work was done by the students!
From the base of articles written by all the students, the Editors selected which ones best represented Barnett and its students. At this point, spelling and grammar mistakes were left in, to make sure we represented our student's work, and not our editor's. The overall design and content was approved by a consensus between the five Editors. Scripting of the actual HyperCard was done by the teacher (this last summer we trained 12 students in object oriented programming at the Code Warrior Computer Programming Camp, so the even this job can be given to students).
The photos in the Barnett Guide were taken from two sources. First, we borrowed all the photos that were taken for the yearbook, and scanned them into HyperCard using HyperScan. Second, student photographers were given the Apple QuickTake 100 camera and allowed to roam the school. The scanned photos usually turned out better that the digital ones.