Why Use LIVE Video on the Internet?
Classroom-to-Classroom Learning 

We are continuing to experiment with live video on the Internet.

ESL video - we had a non-English speaking student in class last year, so we connected with Spanish speakers in Los Angeles.

Ongoing Contacts: Mrs. Wain's class at Rowsley Primary in Derbyshire, England, and Mr. Greenberg's kids at Columbia Elementary in Bridgeport, CT  and Mrs. Black's 4th grade in Naches, Washington, and more.

As this page develops, will show you some of the learning we are sharing with students who are a VERY long way from Hannibal, Missouri.


Are those rubber bands?

 

 
This is a short group of clips showing some of the ways we use video.

 

 
Students chat with teacher Ms. Namata in Kampala, Uganda. We are using WizIQ for this session. The Ugandan kids are sending crafts that they made. We have big plans for projects!



Emily's video mail to Rowsley in England.


A quick call from the Rowsley students in England.

 

 

 
Our main video partner has been Mrs. Black's class in Naches, WA. In the last three years we have had many conferences playing with topics such as geography, wildlife, math, and just generally letting the kids learn to have conversations through a video camera. Sessions have been as short as 20 minutes and as long as 90 minutes depending on the lesson plans.

 

One of our most challenging projects so far was a video conference on Mark Twain with 4th grade students from Horseheads, New York. We presented information on the early years of Mark Twain's life, while the Horseheads students discussed the later years. We both had Mark Twain impersonators at our conferences! Prep: research, writing, cue cards, practicing, then....actually presenting the whole thing!

Photos of the Horseheads, New York Video Conference

 

 

 
Here are some clips of the project, showing us collaborating with students in Horseheads, New York. After lots of research and study about Mark Twain and the connections to the Mississippi River and Hannibal, we presented our part of the story: the early days of Samuel Clemens.  Students in NY presented the later years of Samuel Clemens so that we assembled a complete picture of the life and times of a great American author.


Paul shares with Josh in Washington.

Virginia Shares
a Math Game

 

Speaking Chinese
"zei jian"


Real time working with decomposing/expanding numbers, then multiplying
in a game called Multiplying Wrestling. -- Hannibal vs Naches!


Students are replying to questions from Virginia.


Connecting with Mrs. Black's class in Naches, Washington.
 

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