It has been an exciting and awesome afternoon for our Prekindergarten and Kindergarten Class at Grosse Ile School.
At 1:15pm Atlantic time we were contacted by the kindergarten class at Forestburg to do some activities together by videoconferencing equipment.
As part of a project with LEARN-CEFRIO I have been doing many collaborative technology projects during the last two years. Late last year Joanne McMahon expressed interest in doing a project with our school and we agreed to get started this past fall. Since the fall we set up a community wiki along with another school in St. Jean sur Richelieu. (The link is found on the right side of the blog.) In December Joanne and I spoke about doing some winter activities by videoconferencing. We were excited that the classes could meet this way. It wasn’t easy. We both had to learn how the equipment worked and see how we could test and if we could hook up. We also prepared the children for the experience and practised songs. Today’s activity consisted of introductions to each other. We did several winter songs and poems and the ABC song. Joanne and I took turns reading Sadie and the Snowman. The children also told one thing they liked about winter. We also had informal discussions about the weather differences, vocabulary differences, and time differences between the two communities. Congratulations to all the children. They were very well behaved and did a fantastic job. Thanks to Forestburg for a wonderful opportunity.
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