Videos Showing Class Introductions To Their Epals

Videos showing class introductions to their ePals What do you think of this video technique of introducing your school and your students to their epals? One of these is particularly bad, as you will quickly figure out. #7 below shows some video from a videoconference session. 1. March/April 2009 exchange between Peck School in NJ and Island School in Hawaii, both elementary private school classrooms: http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php? video_id=90695&title=EPals_Greeting_from_NJ Greetings from lower school gr. 2 class in Morristown, NJ, at Peck School, all student voices to tour the school, and the last 2 minutes are each student saying his/her first name to the camera, ends in snow 6:47 minutes 2. Peck school (above) is paired with: Island School, Hawaii, PK-12 http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=94813&title=iSchool_Aloha Note this has teacher voiceover, not students. Introduces gr. 3 class. Individual students introduce themselves starting about 1:21. First a group shot and then each child on video with first name and some other info At 3:11 gives tour of island At 3:50 more ePals introduce themselves, age 7 6:46 minutes 3. Iowa grade 4 class introduces their community and fall farming http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php? video_id=60154&title=Farming_In_Iowa__Meyer_4A 5:34 minutes 4. Middle School French teacher, Madame Thomas, documenting student work with ePals, videoconference, videos from France http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3zpJi_6aaM “My students get to see video footage of the village they are about to write and make videos for.” Argenton-sur-Creuse, with student assignment for French class to use in video for ePals 2:35 minutes 5. ePals Letter and Video Prep gr. 7 French students working on video, in French and English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSnLsAv-1lA&NR=1 Students use Word with spell check in French to write letter first. 6. Thanksgiving video from France to middle school French class in US http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3lVXSBoLsA Teacher shows relationship chart with French class and her class

She has some photos of French students. 1:15 and ends abruptly 7. Students at R A Mitchell Elementary School in Gadsden, Alabama, meet their e-pals from New Zealand via videoconference. (Camera is shaky; needed to use a tripod!) http://www.schooltube.com/video/31217/Videoconference-with-New-Zealand 10:02 minutes 8. Students in Mrs. Rogers' First Grade class at R A Mitchell Elementary School in Gadsden, Alabama, made this school tour movie to show their building and teachers to their ePals in New Zealand. http://www.schooltube.com/video/2961/R-A--Mitchell-School-Tour or http://www1.gcs.k12.al.us/~podcast/media/mes_tour.mov 2:49 minutes 9. J4 e-Pals Video Message (ELL students in Asia introduce themselves on video) This video demonstrates some worst examples of student video, audio etc. and is painful to watch! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCS3dkd9Iok 7:12 minutes 10. Tour of James Buchanan Elementary School 2008 with Hershey Bear (travel buddy) “Our pen pals for the Hershey Bear project wanted a tour of our school in Bethlehem, PA. Students from the third grade class took Hershey Bear around our school to see what was happening.” http://www.schooltube.com/video/14896/Tour-of-James-Buchanan-2008 1:21 minutes Note: this list does NOT include student projects submitted for competitions, which are linked from the main ePals site: www.epals.com