Introducing Mystery Skype: A Global Game that Makes Learning Fun! Are you keen to bring new activities into your children’s classroom?
The highly popular game of Mystery Skype is the new educational game that you’re looking for. What’s the aim of the game? It’s simple – two classrooms arrange to call each other on Skype with the goal of guessing the location of the other classroom by asking strategic questions. It’s a great way to learn geography, languages, history, science – even mathematics! If you think that sounds like fun, head over to our special new Mystery Skype page for teachers to get started in no time. Katy Gartside, a 5th grade teacher at The School at Columbia University, is a true Mystery Skype pro, having completed 30 Skype video calls in less than six months! You and your students are Mystery Skype champs, could you tell us about some of the best Mystery Skype moments in your classroom? 5th Graders Skype with UA Delaware Students. Mr P's ICT blog - Tech to raise standards!: The power of Skype in the Classroom. A few weeks before Christmas, I started a project of Christmas Around the World.
Our project of Christmas around the world was put together to try and connect classes from around the world to learn about Christmas in different countries. We have had an overwhelming number of schools sign up and I know that there were many classes skyping with each other. Classes throughout the school had a chance to Skype and you can read about it here. The project was linked with the Global Classroom project which had a voicethread that ran parallel with all the skyping for schools who couldn't connect due to time zones. With some of the older classes we had an extra element to our skype as we first had to use our geography knowledge to ask questions to find out the location of the class. Do you live in the Northern Hemisphere? Martinsville Teacher Uses Skype to Take Her Students Overseas WSET.com - ABC13.
Boyer's 5th Graders (@boyersclass) Learning and Sharing with Ms. Lirenman: Using Twitter in a Primary Classroom. It's funny, I've been using twitter a fair bit with my students this past year but as I went to find a post about it to share with a colleague on twitter I discovered I've never actually blogged about it.
It's time to fix that. My class and I have used twitter as an incredible connecting, sharing, and learning tool. We've used it for many different purposes and the reality is there is always another way we could be using it. The great thing about Twitter is that it's one of the easiest ways to bring the world into your classroom. It's available for access from almost every where in the world.
Nerdy, Nerdy, Nerdy!: Using Instagram as a Classroom Tool. Have you ever heard that phrase, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em?
" Well, that's what led me to create a class account on Instagram. So the kids are technology pros. We get that. They know all kinds of Internet-y type stuff before I do, and I'm pretty tech-savvy myself. The kids have a billion different types of online accounts and are on them ALL. Three Reasons Students Should Own Your Classroom’s Twitter and Instagram Accounts. It is quickly becoming a non-negotiable for all classrooms to leverage social media in order to communicate with families and other classrooms—thus engaging others in the daily lives of students.
While simply posting “fun” photos is a start, this novelty wears off quickly, and as a result, we must think more critically about how we communicate via social media. As a second grade teacher who facilitates a student-centered classroom, I now believe our use of social media is an opportunity for students to partake in the type of learning in which they can thrive and shout their story to the world. 1. Genuine Digital Citizenship Opportunities In fall 2012, I liked the idea of Twitter, but the thought of social media infiltrating my classroom was still a bit scary. California Middle School. Mr. L's Classroom Page.