Chatterpix Kids App

Coming to a Workstation Near You!

Click here for a short ChatterPix Kids tutorial

This week's blog begins our journey into workstations in your classroom. Teachers across BISD have been designing workstations in multiple ways that include both hands-on as well as technology rich activities meant to deepen students' understanding of the standards being taught.  iDevices are a simple way for students to show what they know.  ChatterPix Kids is an excellent creation app that allows students to make a drawing or photograph 'talk'.  They can create a drawing in another app  such as DoodleBuddy, and then import it into ChatterPix to make it speak.  Or they can import pictures that they have gathered from the internet or taken themselves using the Camera app.  Once the image is in ChatterPix, students have up to 30 seconds to narrate. Finished videos can be downloaded to a computer for later display or posting to a website.

ChatterPix Kids fits nicely in multiple content areas.  Lisa Holder, 2nd grade teacher at Foster Village, had her students use the app to explain what plants needed to survive.  Students used DoodleBuddy to draw a plant, then imported the drawing into ChatterPix.  Once there students made their plant 'tell' what it needed to survive.  The videos were then shared with the rest of the class and the students' parents.

If you would like to know more about ChatterPix Kids, please contact your DLS. We would love to show you this app and many more that can be incorporated in workstations!