Thursday, January 17, 2019

Congratulations to 2019 NETA Contest Winners from ESU 8!

NETA recently announced their 2019 Contest results and several winners reigned from ESU 8.

Congratulations to the following:

Ashley Pischel, O'Neill High School
Teacher: Kevin Morrow

Jiya Chaudhari, O'Neill High School
Teacher: Kevin Morrow

Julia Emme, O'Neill High School
Teacher: Mike Peterson

Award winners will be recognized at NETA's Spring Conference, held March 28-29, 2019 in Omaha, NE. A complete list of the 2019 NETA Contest Winners can be found here


Third Grade Authors publish book about their community's history

The ABCs of Our Community, O'Neill on Apple Books Store
O'Neill Elementary's 3rd Grade Reading class, under the direction of Mrs. Julie Pistulka along with help from Katie Morrow, ESU 8, recently published their latest version of an annual community history research project. This year, the creative student authors compiled and shared their information in the form of an alphabet book.

Using a Pages template, each "letter" consists of 3 pages:
1) a stanza of poetry and photo gallery on the topic
2) written report from student research
3) student-created artwork
template created in Pages and distributed to student iPads via Apple Classroom

Students added audio narration for all the text with the newest feature of Pages books - Audio Recordings.

Learn more about the community of O'Neill, Nebraska as well as student creation of digital books with Pages on iPad by downloading the book from the Apple Books Store.