ROAM Teaching Enhancement Website – Prototype
Ohio Arts Council Arts Innovation Grant

You can see an early prototype website at:
http://ffrmedia.tripod.com/roam/empiretest/index.html
Click on the left side button that says: “School Project Websites”
Select Empire Computech by clicking on their name
Select the Third Grade by clicking on it’s icon
Here you will see an overview of the project. At the bottom of this screen will be links to songs, lyrics, lesson plans and pictures.l

Concept: ROAM is creating a website that will document our ongoing residencies; provide leave-behind lessons, assignments and examples for teachers; and serve as an archive of American history, experiences and memories. This website will contain documentation and more from each of our residencies but also contain additional resources, histories, documentaries, interviews and documents from a vast array of sources including our own field recording teams, historians and teaching-artists.

This is a 3-phase project.

Phase I (7/1/2006 – 6/30/2007)
The first phase of this project will enhance an ongoing residency for 3rd 5th and 8th grade students at Cleveland Municipal School Districts Empire Computech. Our Empire Computech Residency with 3rd graders was created to augment the school's teachings on communities, specifically the Glenville Community in which Empire is located. Our goal, over a 6 week period, was to help the 3rd graders learn about the people and places in their own community. To this effect we spent all or part of 5 classes talking about the different street names, restaurants, stores, schools, and modes of transportation in the area, and approximately all or part of 3 classes learning about some of the occupations of people living in the Glenville neighborhood. During each classroom session the information discussed was put into lyrical form. This netted two original Glenville Neighborhood songs. Additionally, as part of out program, 3rd Graders interviewed "First Voices" in their community. The class was visited by two neighborhood leaders: Officer Butler from the police force and Pastor Toby from a local church. Officer Butler talked about his role in protecting the neighborhood and Pastor Toby spoke of her role in building a local

You can see an early prototype website at:
http://ffrmedia.tripod.com/roam/empiretest/index.html
Click on the left side button that says: “School Project Websites”
Select Empire Computech by clicking on their name
Select the Third Grade by clicking on it’s icon
Here you will see an overview of the project. At the bottom of this screen will be links to songs, lyrics, lesson plans and pictures.

Phase II (7/1/2007 – 6/30/2008)
The second phase of this project will contain information from all our school residencies including residencies that are specific to the state of Ohio as well as many other historical archives and information that we have collected. This enhanced website will be made available on a state wide basis.

Phase III (7/1/2008 – 6/30/2009)
The third phase of this project will include all ROAM residencies and will be available on a national basis.