Monday, October 19, 2009

Within Months, More Impact than Imagined

CameraA 3-year-old named Kaia has become the talk of several tech-literate classrooms. Her father, Jabiz, in reading an inspiring book, was motivated to help his daughter become more acquainted with the outdoors. So, he took his daughter outside and allowed her to take pictures with his camera. He helped her create a video slideshow of her pictures with her comments added using a voicethread. You can visit Kaia and her dad's blog here.

Kaia's dad described his daughter's moderate fame as having started with that one video. He shared information about it to his Twitter followers, then within a few months, started receiving comments from students in a school in Missouri. Those students were in the class of William Chamberlain, a tech-literate teacher whose efforts have been noted by teachers and students of all ages and tech-literate-levels. The only thing, Kaia can't read yet, so her dad requested those Missouri students that they reply not in written comments, but in video or audio comments. They did so. It goes to show that there really is no limit as to whom can utilize and enjoy technology.

Now, we students at USA have learned of Kaia and her story is a lesson to us.

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