At my school we have different committees of teachers that focus in various things. I am part of our technology committee. We have been trying to develop our committee and focus on new ways to use technology to improve our school.
Over the summer I attended a class. The keynote speaker was a technology and teacher librarian. She has done so many innovative things at her school. One of which was getting her students connected to a Mercer Mayer via Skype. I kept this in my head and knew it was something our committee had to at least try to make happen.
As the year started and went on we began planning events and activities for Digital Learning Day. In early December we decided to give it a try and reached out to a Mercer Mayer. Within days he got back to us and we set up a Skype session for our whole school to participate in on Digital Learning Day. This past Wednesday was Digital a Learning Day and at 10:00 on the nose we sat in our lunch room and the greatest thing happened... We got to Skype with him. He answered student's questions, read us a story and taught is how to draw Little Critters. It was remarkable. I am still amazed at how welcoming and warm he was with our school.
Following this we used Scribble Press to write wordless books, inspired by is first book. We also watched a recording of how to draw the Little Critters and gave it our best shot. The students tweeted him thanking and he tweeted back. Digital Learning Day was successful. We built relationships with well known authors, learned a bit about social media and got to connect with Mercer Mayer.
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