As we finish the first quarter of school, the teachers I work with are preparing for parent teacher conferences. We talked about the role of tech in the conferences up to this point and their hopes and reams for the parent conferences. The teachers agreed that it would be great to invlove more student voice in the conferences in a way that helped students become ready for joining the conferences in 6th grade.
I suggested we have the students use Explain Everything, an IWB app that they had already used successfully once this year, to create a short reflective video. The idea is to create a student voice foundation that the conference uses as a touchstone. The teachers made up a great script sheet for the students to complete before they began filming.
Since we are not sharing these video publically this is the last step in the process. The teachers will save these videos in case we want to use them as part of a end of year reflection.
I suggested we have the students use Explain Everything, an IWB app that they had already used successfully once this year, to create a short reflective video. The idea is to create a student voice foundation that the conference uses as a touchstone. The teachers made up a great script sheet for the students to complete before they began filming.
When I arrived with the cart of iPads I did a very quick review of how Explain Everything worked (how to add a slide, how to import a picture, how to re-record something) and then we talked briefly about how they could use pictures to support their statements. We talked about what kind of picture would show "I pay attention" or "I am helpful."
Although we only had about 40 minutes to create this film, most of the students finished during this block. We have another hour reserved and I will have to bring in some "Next step" ideas for the early finishers.
Logistics/ workflow:
We made a spreadsheet of whose videos are on which iPads. As the kids finish their videos we are exporting them to the camera role.
One the videos are on the camera role we will be using the BOX app in order to upload them all to a folder shared by the teachers of 4th grade and myslef. In the conference the teachers will play the movie from the box app or from their desktop computer.Since we are not sharing these video publically this is the last step in the process. The teachers will save these videos in case we want to use them as part of a end of year reflection.
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