Dear Kaia: Voice thread and Video

In this blog, Mr. Chamberlain and his class at Noel Elementary School discussed a comments4kids blog they came across. The blog they found is written mainly by a dad for his kids as a digital scrapbook in the voice of his oldest daughter Kaia. His children Kaia and Skyelar are the focus of the blog and it follows them on their journey growing up. The post that Mr. Chamberlain's class read was about some pictures that Kaia and her dad took. After they took the pictures they made a video where Kaia talked about each picture she took.

Mr. Chamberlain and his sent a video with voice thread as a response back to Kaia because she is three and cannot read yet. The video had pictures of the class and each child said something about her pictures in the voice thread. First of all I think it is amazing that Kaia is able to do such amazing things on the computer. It is so cool that this class is able to see someone from so far away in the nation and read about their experiences. The way that the class responded was awesome because Kaia will be able to appreciate the class's thoughts even though she cannot read. The communication across the Internet is so incredible and interesting to experience.

Kaia's father also has a blog in which he shared the whole story about his daughter and about Mr. Chamberlain's class's comments. He talks about how this communication through classrooms is what is needed today in order for students to thrive and grow. He encourages the use of technologies in the classroom and hopes that everyone can be connected through education and media. He is sharing the life of his daughter to teach himself, Kaia and others that the world can be completely connected through the Internet.

This so important for teachers because class from all over the world can communicate and learn from each other. It expands the borders of education and the many tools used to teach. I think this form of learning will allow students to learn more at all ages without limits and possibly on their own. This is such a huge step for educators and once this educational tool is applied to all classrooms I think that education will be revolutionized.

To read Mr. Chamberlain's blog click here

For Kaia's blog click here

For Kaia's father's blog click here

Comments4Kids

This week's comments4kids was a blog entitled "Team One Rock stars" which is a class blog of 5 year olds from England. The post I commented on was by Henry titled "Pop, pop, pop!" He drew a picture of a fish and the subtitle said a fish blowing bubbles. I told him that it was a great picture with cool colors.