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4th Grade DENVoices Agents of Change Students Skype with Partner School

1/8/2015

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Our 4th grade students are part of a global collaboration project called DENVoices-"Agents of Change" This is a "passion project" of Discovery Education STAR educators who want to connect their classrooms through music. The final product will be a video with smaller videos of all 42 schools singing the same song at the same time--It will be super awesome!

To make it more fun, each participating class was  partnered up with another school to learn about the passions of other students. Mr Arrington hosted the introductory Skype meeting with the awesome 6th grade students in Denver, Colorado. All of the students introduced themselves and came up to the microphone to say one thing that they are "passionate" about. This was a great way for students to connect on things they have in common, even though they live so far away!  


The high point of our meeting was when this amazing class sang Jingle Bells with us! And, our principal walked in during the song so everyone started over and did it again to include Ms Limoncelli, who had no problem getting into a festive spirit thanks to our friends from Ms 
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Hawthorne Starts on the Mystery Skype Journey!

1/8/2015

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Khari served as our ambassador today!
While today was not our first Skype in Education meet-up with another class, it was our first official Mystery Skype. This educational game was designed by teachers to encourage kids to learn about the world by trying to guess where the other class is located. This is not as easy as it sounds and requires a good deal of thinking and geographic reference material. We met up with a great class from Connecticut! They were sharp and looked for clues on our clothes--one of our students was wearing an Atlanta sweatshirt and that might have been a clue b/c they guessed GA pretty quickly! Our students feel that they should have used the larger map that was put on the wall by Dalila because they missed the fact that CT was just off the border of one of the important clues, and therefore it was not considered as a possibility by the students!
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Example of a Class Training for Mystery Skype posted by Slivia Rosenthal Tolisiono 
Check out her awesome blog: http://langwitches.org/blog/

The Mystery Skype Call from langwitches on Vimeo.

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