Class 6 Feb. 4 2010

Today in class we used a conferencing application to talk to 5th graders in Oakland, CA. These fifth graders asked questions about autobiographies. I had the question about putting opinions in an autobiography. I answered that since the auto biography is mostly about you so you could put some opinions but moslty not. This task met INSTE Standard 3c. This standard states "communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital-age media and formats." This we met because we answered questions the students asked through the Skype. This is communicating with peers. In my classroom I would talk to a teacher from another school in the county that teaches a higher grade than me. I would think of some sort of project that the older kids could help the younger ones with like answering questions. Then with that teacher I would talk to them about connecting to Skype and then the children could ask the questions to the older students.