Nearing the End

Finally finished 6th grade science podcasts! When the students finished, I asked them to join a discussion on our class wiki and to talk about if anything surprised them while doing this project, or if they think that they worked harder knowing that their Peru classmates would be viewing them. Check out their responses on our class wiki. We did get a chance to view a couple of our Peru classmates' podcasts, and they thought the Peru students' accents were neat to hear, and they enjoyed hearing about the same topic that we podcasted about. We've since started a voicethread project, as a way of saying goodbye to our Peru classmates who will be beginning their summer break. We decided to create a voicethread describing what we do in the summertime, and to invite our Peru epals to the voicethread as a way to tell them to have a good summer and to share with them our csummertime cultural experiences. The 6th graders are enjoying choosing summertime photos for their voicethread and recording themselves commenting on their summertime. The end of the semester and the end of the Peruvian school year is fast approaching, so we are doing one last push to complete our partnership.