Writing with Webcams

Writing with Webcams

This session is a fourth grade teachers that uses the webcam to enhane the writing in her classrrom. Using the webcam to video their writing engages them and gives them an audience to share their writing. Using the webcam can create voice within their writing .

Shannon Britton
Texaekana ISD
shanon.britton@txkisd.net

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1. Letter to parents from students.Have students write a letter and then video them reading the letter . Send to parent through email. Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, Father's Day.
2. Sharing composition with other classes
3. Writing as if they were a certain character - Use avatars
4. Chapter summaries from novels . Students write summaries and then get to create a video to teach other about summaries.
5. Presentation summaries
6. Use the avatars to leave messages for your students when you have to be out. For Halloween safety have older students in school create video using avatars telling younger students how to be safe on Halloween. Students pick an avatar from collection and then they write a composition pretending to be that avatar. Record and post on website.

I am sitting by a librarian and she creates short videos for her students on good picks on books in the library and post them to

Science - Instead of doing a PowerPoint to show reseach , have student get the information and then write a story about their research and then choose an avatar and create a video about their research.

The audience started sharing how to they used Skype an webcams in the classroom.

Using skype and your webcam connect with another class. Have student at both sites create clues for other class and then the connected sites have to guess.