Attention all educators!! Our class just received two iSight cameras as a gift from a great on-line donation program for inner city schools called Donor Choose. If your class would be interested in doing some web camera collaboration, let us know. We will be doing some work with another school this year and would love to consider working with your class. We have several Spanish speaking students in our class, so if you have Spanish speakers too, well...you get the idea.


Hi,
Tom Layton just shared your blog with me. I'm a third grade teacher in Eugene, Or & have had my kids blog for a few years. I have an iSight camera & would love to share class projects or poetry recitals or have 2 of my Spanish speaking students share with your students..... hmmm, the possibilities!
I took my iSight home from the summer & it hasn't returned to school yet, but I'll bring it in.
Our class website is: http://www.4j.lane.edu/~siporin Let's get in touch!
Posted by: Julia Siporin | Thursday, October 06, 2005 at 05:32 PM
Julia,
I'd love to get our kids together. We actually just got our iSight cameras today so we are set up for video conferencing and the kids are excited about this form of collaboration. It may be a week or two before we can really get going because our computer lab is down at the moment...we are being patient.
I was looking around your class blog...very cool that your kids are doing it! And I saw your book sharing with the students from Scotland. I bet your students are so excited to be sharing with children half way around the world. Great stuff.
I'm very open to classroom collaboration. lets talk about what we want to do. Our own creativity is our own limit.
Posted by: Mr. Brandow | Thursday, October 06, 2005 at 09:02 PM
Greetings,
I share a comment in your Literature Circles link. I also created a category for your students to post to on our class blog. I emailed you directions how to post an entry using the username & password you sent me. This could be a lot of fun.
Are we 4 hours apart? Thinking about video chatting... we'd need to set it up before 10:00 a.m PST probably.. It could be a great lesson on time zones!
- Mrs. Siporin
Posted by: Mrs. Siporin | Sunday, October 09, 2005 at 07:02 PM