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MS Works, QuickCam Camera, LabPop - Video Conferencing - SP-I, II, III.1.3 & SP-III.2.5

Language Arts
ON

Math
Yes

Technology
Yes

Description
Grade three students from two Winnipeg School Division Schools (Montrose and Weston) participated in a data gathering activity involving the use of video conferencing interviews.  The data collected was used to create spreadsheets and graphs.  The video conference was also used as a prelude to e-mail communication between the two schools.

UnitPlan
Yes

Tech Skills
QuickCam usage, creating spreadsheets/charts, e-mail

Software
QuickCam software, Microsoft Works 3.0, POPmail

EarlyYears
Yes

MiddleYears
Yes

SubmittedBy
Steve Broda-Milian

Collaborators
MaryLouise Lisi

Acknowledgments
J. Innes, S. Kuehl, G. Popowich, L. Treyturik, J. Villafana (grade three classroom teachers)

E-mail: sbrodamilian@wsd1.org

Details

Included with these notes are one Microsoft Publisher 2.0 file, VIDCON1.PUB and one Microsoft Works 3.0 file, VCQU_1.WKS.  An e-mail template is available elsewhere is this website. To download this template, click on this link EMMESS1.PUB. To download the files noted above, click on these links VIDCON1.PUB and VCQU_1.WKS.

This unit involves several separate components - each an entity in and of  itself.  The components, in order of occurrence, are: gathering personal information about oneself , the actual video conference, gathering information about another student, organizing information that is gathered, creating spreadsheets/charts, and utilizing e-mail.

Before the actual video conference, students used the interview question sheets to record information about themselves so that they would be prepared to answer the student who was interviewing them.  During the video conference, interview answers were recorded for later use. 

After all the video conferences were complete, the data sheets were attached to wall of the computer lab at each school.  Pairs of students were then assigned to tally data regarding a particular interview question.  The student pairs then sat at a computer workstation to, under direct instruction, prepare a simple spreadsheet incorporating the tallied data.  The spreadsheet was then used to generate a bar graph.  Two dimensional bar graphs were chosen because the students were familiar with them.  Time permitted student pairs to create another type of chart - of their own choosing.

Subsequent to this, students from one school (Weston) used a hard copy (paper) e-mail template to compose a short e-mail message to a grade three student at the other school (Montrose).  Upon reception of their e-mail messages, a reply was made.