Netia Elam

Elam's winning project, "Flipping For Foreign Language: A Tour of Latin America," will allow Spanish students at Bull Run Middle School to work in collaborative groups to create a virtual tour of a Latin American country using camcorders and audio recording devices. As a culminating project, students will act as travel agents to create a multimedia presentation to advertise their country to potential tourists. The students will also be required to include spoken language in both English and Spanish. One of the library computers will display each final project, and at the end of the project, students will take a virtual "Tour of Latin America." The project gives the students the opportunity to practice writing and speaking Spanish as well as increase their technology literacy by utilizing cameras. They also get to learn important editing software. Elam resides in Gainesville.