Creative Communicator
April's ISTE Standard is Creative Communicator. We will focus on tools this month that help communicate a message clearly and effectively to one's audience.
1. Chatterpix
Have you heard of Chatterpix? Maybe you have, but you aren't sure how great it can be in your classroom! Chatterpix provides a (FREE) quick and easy way to informally assess your students' learning that is fun for them! Chatterpix allows students to take any photo saved on the device and make it "talk". They draw a line where the mouth is to be and they have 30 seconds to record themselves. This can be a good lesson in 1st person and 3rd person point of view! Students can share their work in Google Drive, or even easier- through Seesaw! Chatterpix is already on every elementary iPad!
Here are a few ways we have seen Chatterpix as a presentation tool for research, creative writing, and more!
- Creative writing and poetry- Perhaps your students have been working on an opinion piece, or a piece of poetry in April (Poetry month).
- Students research in PebbleGo (or a variety of other resources), and share their new knowledge with Chatterpix. This can be used for ANY topic and ANY grade.
- End of marking period reflections- Students can take a selfie, or they can take a picture of a reflection sheet and record their proud moments and their goals for the next marking period.
- Teachers can easily make a Chatterpix to share directions for small group work using their own voice!
- Geography- use a photo from a travel destination and students are the reporters
- Explorer Research- Click here for an example for Henry Hudson OR scan the QR code to hear about Jackie Robinson
Use this Chatterpix check-off to keep track of students who have completed their projects!
2. 21st Century Learning Night
It's not too late to sign-up to join us at our 5th annual 21st Century Learning Night. Any and all exhibits are welcome and appreciated! We hope this will be our biggest year yet. So far, we are over 60 exhibits, and our goal is 85! If you have any questions, please let Erin or Chris know!
Click here for the form!3. PSD Key Libraries
PSD Key allows for you and your students to download apps and add your password information to them, so that it truly becomes a homepage for everything digital at Pennridge. This can be accomplished by choosing the "+" button in the upper left hand corner of the screen near the PSD Key logo. When the screen appears, notice that there is an "Elementary Library" and a "Teaching Library." The Elementary Library is for students, but the Teaching Library is for teachers to find specially designed apps for their own needs.As always, if there is an app that you would like to add that is not present please send the name of the app and the web url to helpdesk@pennridge.org, and we will do our best to see that it is included in the teaching library.
A huge thank you to Chris Brockman and Mrs. Diane Miller and her team for their successful launch of this amazing, time-saving resource!
