Who were Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan?
The students used wireless laptops to conduct a focused search for images of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan. They had already heard a brief account of Helen’s life and were directed to look for pictures that showed the pupil and teacher together. Before the lesson, the teacher identified a small number of suitable sites for students to use, for example:Picsearch, a picture search engine used by the school for its effective filtering functionthe website for the American Foundation for the Blind, which includes a special section on photographs of Helen Kellerthe Helen Keller Kids Museum Online, which includes videosIvy Green, the website of the Alabama birthplace of Helen Keller. The students saved their images in a folder and then pasted them into a movie-making program (which they had used before) to make a slide show.