The ChatterPix Kids creation app helps make content come to life in creative ways!

How I Use It

As a technology integrator at the elementary level, I have used the ChatterPix Kids app with students from kindergarten through fifth grade. With younger students, we have completed simple activities where the students took pictures of objects they were learning about (trees in fall, George Washington, a liquid or solid, etc) and, using the audio recording feature, digitally recorded themselves explaining something they know, or facts they’d learned about that object. This was not only used as a formative assessment of content knowledge, but in some cases also used as a practice in fluency when reading a ‘script’ or rate and volume and/or delivery of their oral speaking skills. In upper elementary grades, students have used ChatterPix Kids in a variety of engaging ways: As book reviews and persuasive ‘speeches’ on why classmates should read a particular book; as part of a presentation of research of specific historical topics (for example, a picture of Pocahontas ‘talking’ about her life as a Powhatan Indian); and even as a way to create a ‘time capsule about me’ at the beginning of school – by taking a selfie and stating their yearly academic goals, and then revisiting them at the end of the school year to evaluate which of their goals were met. ChatterPix Kids is simple and versatile, engaging students on every level to make creative products.