Community for Rural Education Stewardship and Technology
The
St. George School
has been involved with the CREST program for four years now. The
program
is all about kids learning new technologies to use in their school and
community. Each summer,
a group of students and teachers go to the CREST summer training
program where they learn to use the three different kinds of
technologies.
The technologies are: GIS/GPS which is taking the data from a GPS to
make maps, Ethnography which is interviewing and movie making, and web
design which is designing web pages. Throughout the course of the four
years, the middle level students at the St. George School have done a number
of
projects relating to the different technologies. Kids have made
maps, web pages, and movies.
Georges Valley is actually part of the CREST program, too. So when the CREST members from St. George move on to the high school, they can still be part of CREST.
By being involved with CREST, the St. George School has gotten a number of different pieces of equipment. The school got four GPS units, a Toshiba laptop with GIS software, and two video cameras. Last year at the summer camp, the CREST team won $200 to use for new equipment. We bought a converter to change our old VHS formatted tapes of interviews with community members to DVD, and lots of DVDs.
The people at the Island Institute who have helped us with our many projects are Shay Conover, Ruth Kermish-Allen, Kristin Collins, and Hope Rowan. They have put many hours into teaching us how to use the equipment.
Georges Valley is actually part of the CREST program, too. So when the CREST members from St. George move on to the high school, they can still be part of CREST.
By being involved with CREST, the St. George School has gotten a number of different pieces of equipment. The school got four GPS units, a Toshiba laptop with GIS software, and two video cameras. Last year at the summer camp, the CREST team won $200 to use for new equipment. We bought a converter to change our old VHS formatted tapes of interviews with community members to DVD, and lots of DVDs.
The people at the Island Institute who have helped us with our many projects are Shay Conover, Ruth Kermish-Allen, Kristin Collins, and Hope Rowan. They have put many hours into teaching us how to use the equipment.