My third graders recently participated in a travel buddy project with
Rowland Norment Elementary School in North Carolina. This was our first travel buddy and I think the students really enjoyed the activity.
Students took Dino, their travel buddy, home each evening along with a school camera. Students were asked to take pictures and journal about their evening with Dino. We shared our Dino adventures on our blog, "
Dino Visits Burrton".
I did try to use a variety of slide show applications to share the photographs that students took of Dino to expose myself to some apps and to give teachers an idea of what each had to offer.
Animoto is still one of my favorites.
Magtoo has many options to choose from when creating a slideshop. It unfortunately may have content on the website that is not child friendly.
Voicethread would be a terrific option for a project like this. Easy to use and highly recommend. I struggle using
VT in my district. There is something with our firewall that is not allowing my mic to connect to
VT.
If you are unfamilar with Travel Buddies. Make sure and check out this informative post on
travel buddies by
Dyane Smokorowski (Smoke). Mrs. Smoke even included websites to look for travel buddy partners.
Places to find partner schools...
Global School NetePalsCAPSpace (for those with Polycoms)
Skype in SchoolsDistance Collaboration on Classroom 2.0
If you are looking for Earth Day Games here are a few that might work well during centers in your classroom this week. Within this list, you will find a variety of games for various elementary ages. Most of these games would also work well on your interactive whiteboard. Please let me know what else you are using with your students, so I can add to this list.
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