ejourney with technokids

 

Grade 6 students have been busy making their cards over the last few weeksto send to 24 schools situated in Perth, USA, Canada, Italy, Hawaii and the Arab Emirates as part of the From Me To You project. Emails  have been sent back and forth to organizing staff generating enthausiasm and a little knowledge about the countries these cards are going to. One of our cards was sent to a Ronald McDonald house in UK. Each one of our cards contained a personalized note from a student and outlined a little about the student, where they live including Victoria and Australia.

Google search revealed the identity of the strange area abbreviations and the world map had to be consulted to find the actual locations. Then we set about making our cards. Below is a photo of our class.

Global projects are a wonderful project to get involved in. Social networks are established, natural student curiousity arising from comments made in emails, cards etc activiate learning and there is an authentic recipient of their work. Please enjoy the following movie by a grade 6 boy using MS Photostory to show some of what we did.

Download Video: Posted by murch at TeacherTube.com.