Tellagami for News Reports

Tellagami is a movie making app using an animated avatar. Students created news reports telling about the Boston Massacre. First they wrote out their script. Then they uploaded a picture to use as the background, and finally recorded their script.

Mystery Skype

Fourth-grade students are always excited for mystery Skype! During a mystery Skype the objective is to try to guess the location of the other class. Some classes participate with other classes from around the world; in Winchester, we focus on the United States which follows along with our curriculum. We start off with an introduction class, and then a practice class. When it is time for the real Skype, every student has a role/job. The students need to work as a team to ask yes/no questions in order to narrow down the other class' state. Once we guess each other's locations there is usually time to tell some interesting facts about Massachusetts and learn facts about the other state by asking questions. Communicating with other students from a particular state is a favorite way of learning about different regions and states in the US. Check out the iMovie trailer below:

Using Padlet for Internet Safety

Today students did a review of Internet safety. To brainstorm and share safety tips, we created a Padlet to post tips for eachother. A Padlet is an online platform that allows students to attach "sticky notes" in real time. The sticky notes can be texts, pictures, links, a file, slideshow, and just about anything! Because this was our first time using Padlet, we just typed in text. Here is what we came up with so far!

Created with Padlet