Today will be a relaxed day spent learning about opportunities for primary teachers using videoconferencing in the curriculum. We will begin by building our structure and how to best spend our time.

Introductions and K-W-L

• Who is in the room? Sit in groups that you will be working with.
• As a group, come up with a team name and a spokesperson.
• Each group will write down as many things as they KNOW about videoconferencing for grades K-3.
• Then write what you want to learn today.
• Submit via online form.

Best of the Best Projects and Collaborations

Link to BCISD Kid2Kid Projects compiled by Janine Lim at BCISD.

• PreK-K:
  • See You, See Me ~ classes will meet point to point and practice poems, familiar stories, following directions, read aloud, Who Am I?
  • Holiday Extravaganza
  • Monster Match
  • Read Around the Planet
• Kindergarten
  • Sing-along ~ partner with another class and teach a favorite song to each other
  • What sound do I make? Show animals, letters, etc to the partner class and they can make the sound.
  • Down in the Deep~ collaboration between Kindergarten classes in Texas and Michigan.
  • Monster Match
  • Holiday Extravaganza
  • Read Around the Planet
• 1st Grade
  • 100th Day of School
  • Seuss-a-palooza
  • My School
  • Monster Match (and follow-up comments)
  • Holiday Extravaganza
  • Read Around the Planet
  • Weather With Rusty
• 2nd Grade
  • Landmark Challenge (use MysteryQuest format with landmarks...limit 3 sites)
  • Community Exchange
  • Snowman Match (use Monster Match format, but with snowmen in January)
  • Math Marvels
  • Presidential Who Am I? (Students research and present presidential clues to 3 connecting schools.)
  • Monster Match
  • Holiday Extravaganza
  • Read Around the Planet
  • Weather With Rusty
• 3rd Grade
  • RegionQuest (read comments)
  • ASK: Stellaluna
  • Monster Match
  • Holiday Extravaganza

     

  • Read Around the Planet
  • Weather With Rusty

Planning for Next Year

If the idea is not an existing project, enter the idea online in our Mini-JAZZ idea database.