VT 8th grade class receives EduCast Pioneer award

April 3, 2014April 3, 2014 Audrey Homan 5 Comments Peoples Academy Middle Level, STEM, Touchcast

"An alien named Athena lives on Mars, and goes to school. Athena's house is a spaceship. When she left to go to school, she realized she left something about half way...." — “An alien named Athena lives on Mars, and goes to school. Athena’s house is a spaceship. When she left to go to school, she realized she left something about half way….”

Rachel Goodale’s 8th grade science class at Peoples Academy Middle Level was honored yesterday for their series of speed graph Touchcasts by the makers of the app. The EduCast Pioneer award honors outstanding implementations of the Touchcast iOS app in the classroom.

How They Did It

Goodale’s students worked in partner-teams, and were given 10 different graphs depicting relative speeds, and 10 different stories explaining them. The students had to figure out which graph went with which story. They were then assigned a graph-and-story combo to act out and, using Touchcast on iPads, one half of the pair filmed while the other acted.

Goodale blogged about how she put the speed graph lesson together here, where you can download a .pdf of the speed graph lesson plan and also find links to the students’ finished works.

Touchcast has created the EduCast channel and award specifically for educators to post Touchcasts they and their students create as part of a classroom curriculum. They’ve also released an exhaustive guide to ways the app can be integrated in education, with lesson plans arranged by content area, tips for getting started, and using iPads in groups.

A huge congratulations to Rachel Goodale and her 8th graders at PAML for being so willing to share their work!

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Audrey Homan

Audrey Homan is a Vermont-based digital media producer, and producer of The 21st Century Classroom podcast. She's worked in non-profit communications for more than a decade, and in her spare time writes tiny video games and mucks about with augmented reality and arduinos, ably assisted by five dogs. Interviewing students and yelling in PHP are the best parts of her job.

5 thoughts on “VT 8th grade class receives EduCast Pioneer award”

innovativeEd
April 3, 2014 at 5:37 pm
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VT 8th grade STEM class receives EduCast Pioneer award #vted http://t.co/eIbCARPUvw
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dave_baroody
April 3, 2014 at 5:41 pm
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Awesome! Congrats to the T/Ss at Peoples! http://t.co/ETvta2FZb8
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hennesss
April 3, 2014 at 5:56 pm
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Congrats! VT 8th grade receive EduCast Pioneer award http://t.co/edCPAGYoyz
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Jes Wills
April 4, 2014 at 2:10 pm
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Great work Rachel! The 8th grade students were eager to share with me what they were doing, which is usually like pulling teeth to hear about what they do in other classes.
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