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“Lucidpress allows students and teachers to incorporate visual literacy into any subject, which encourages students to develop higher-order thinking and greater personal investment in class content." "I love Lucidpress for its ease of use, with all of the design elements you would need to teach desktop publishing. Students use Lucidpress to publish the school newspaper, the yearbook, and to create smaller projects like trifolds for science class. The administrative team has used it to create a curriculum handbook for the whole district. There's something for everyone in Lucidpress.” Joseph Martin Technology Integration Coach East Stroudsburg Area School District
Dealing with a variety of operating systems: With a mix of Macbooks and PCs across the district's schools and a new Chromebook initiative, East Stroudsburg needed a one-size-fits-all design software that was online and that required little to no maintenance. Meeting a variety of technology needs: While the administration needed a design solution robust enough to create a curriculum handbook, elementary students needed a solution that was simple enough for them to use. Accessing assignments outside of class: When teachers assigned design projects in Publisher or Pages, students often didn't have access to projects at home. Class time had to be spent completing designs. Assigning cross-curricular projects: The district was trying to promote cross-curriculuar learning, but the logistics of working on the same project in two different subject areas digitally meant it was a nightmare to send documents back and forth.
ABOUT THE SCHOOL STATE: Pennsylvania SCHOOL DISTRICT: East Stroudsburg Area GRADE LEVELS: K-12 USE CASES: Brochures, newspapers, curriculum handbooks, and other visuals Joseph Martin is a Technology Integration Coach who helps teachers bring technology to the classroom that helps students become more accountable and engaged during the learning process.
Bringing collaborative design to East Stroudsburg Area School District
Using web-based technology: Students can easily access the web-based Lucidpress on any operating system or device. The web-based platform meant no downloads, no updates, and little to no maintenance for IT staff. Discovering intuitive, collaborative design: Students, teachers and administrators from a variety of age groups have no trouble familiarizing themselves with Lucidpress due to its intuitive user experience. It was robust enough to create a school newspaper, curriculular handbooks, brochures, and more. Storing projects in the cloud: Because their designs were stored in the cloud, students, teachers and administrators could easily access and work on projects at home and at school. Shared platform: With Lucidpress EDU premium, it was easy to set up collaboration between classes, even between schools. Cross-curriculuar projects helped students to create deeper connections with the subject matter and collaborate with their classmates on a variety of projects.
