March 22, 2002

IMMEX Student Authors Shine in Sacramento

On March 11, The IMMEX Project hosted a booth at the annual Student Techology Showcase, sponsored by the California State Department of Education.  For the second year in a row, IMMEX was invited to Sacramento to share with over a thousand people members of the learning community its unique professional development and assesment system.  Highlighting the authoring component of IMMEX software, four students from Esperanza High School and their science teacher, Elise Simpson, walked teachers, students, project directors, and policy makers throught the nuts and bolts of IMMEX using paper prototypes and online examples of problem-sets that they created last summer.  Jessica Eng, Jeff Salumbides, Jena Desai, and Mark Lin all participated in last year's round of ETPDP workshops which are funded by the state of California and which are administered through the California State University System.  These workshops pair teams of teachers with students to design web-delivered, curriculum-oriented learning assesments across many disciplines and grade levels.  As IMMEX users and authors, these four dynamos, armed with post-its and brochures, fielded a variety of questions from interested attendees with the enthusiasm of their personal experiences.  Check out Solar System Settlers for a sample of the outstanding work that has been created by IMMEX and these teams of students and teachers that was displayed at this year's showcase.