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Giving Students a Voice: Tech Tip

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 No comments
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Hello everyone! As I work throughout the district I have had a bunch of questions about helping our students get more practice recording their voices. Since so many students take the ACCESS test, practicing recording their voices not only helps with preparing them for the test, but also enhances their speaking skills.



If you work with littles, one easy way to get them speaking is Chatterpix. Chatterpix can be used on the iPads and Chromebooks. Students take or upload a picture and then use their finger to cut a "mouth" into their picture. They then can record their voices!





This is awesome for describing a character, retelling a story with beginning, middle, and end, or even explaining their thinking on a math problem. The videos can be saved to the device and then imported into their Google drive accounts!

Live Webcams

Friday, June 21, 2019 No comments

One of my favorite ways to transform a classroom is to add a live webcam! Live webcams can immerse your students into content like nothing else.

Reading an informational text about the ocean or ocean animals? Have students put on their scientist hats and make some observations about this:






Learning about space? Have this on while the students do group work:


If you go to YouTube, you can literally search any topic and and the words "live feed" or "live cameras" to it and you may hit the jackpot!

My favorite website, for live cams, is Explore.org. The host cams of animals and habitats and there is always something new to explore.

Live cams are fabulous to:

  • Create understanding on the setting of a novel
  • Study the geography of an area
  • Support informational text
Adding live webcams is such a low prep thing to do and really adds a sense of excitement to the class!




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