Jeannie C. Crowley

To help address students struggling with retention and comprehension of scientific concepts, Crowley proposes creating a "Digital Science Lab" on the Web to archive science projects and topics that students can access and review at any time from any place. Approximately 100 fourth through eighth grade students with emotional and learning disabilities will use digital camcorders to record science experiments and demonstrations. They will edit and narrate the videos in the computer lab, import the videos into a Web development software, add informational/procedural text and diagrams and upload the Web page to the school's hosting account. Crowley contends that there are no science Web sites that host videos created by students for students. She believes an added benefit to this program is that the vocabulary and explanations used by students of similar age will resonate more effectively with their peer group than traditional instructional science videos. Crowley lives in the Bronx.