You really need to watch this excellent video…
It is amazing what can be done these days. As Ashley says…
What do you get when you combine biology with music, art and digital story telling?
This video…
Students will learn more and remember more when they get to put facts into their own generation’s style.
How do you allow your students to show their own learning styles along with their knowledge and understanding of the facts? Leave a comment.
I am SO LUCKY!
I have a great PLN (Personal Learning Network).
I have a huge list of blogs that I read.
Sometimes I read every single word; sometimes I scan the posts; sometimes, I feel like I am way behind in reading all the posts and so I (Gasp!) say I have read them (and click them READ) just to get my number of unread posts lower!
There, I have admitted it. It feels so good!
Dean Shareski,of Ideas and Thoughts blog, is someone who I have followed his blog posts for some time, and even followed him on Twitter (although I have to admit – Gasp! – that I am NOT a twitter guru or complete convert!)
Today I was catching up on some blog posts from those many blogs on my blogroll, and suddenly, I saw this post: The Kahn Academy.
I wasn’t sure I was going to watch the video, but something in the blog post piqued my curiosity. So I watched. And if you try it, you, too, should be glad you did.
Sal has such an unassuming quality to his manner of speaking that you immediately feel you know him, you like him, and you want to listen to him. These are the reasons his Kahn Academy is so successful and so valuable!
Thank you Sal!
(You see, I can call you by your first name because I feel like you are already my friend, even though we have never met, talked, or seen each other!)
Watch the video and then go on to attend the Kahn Academy and learn things you never thought you would ever understand!
Sal Khan at Gel 2010 (founder, the Khan Academy) from Gel Conference on Vimeo.
If you read yesterday’s post, PowerPoint into AuthorSTREAM, you will know what I am doing here… trying the competition’s way to insert a video into your blog.
I think that this video might be too big for a blog. The file is certainly much larger than the AuthorSTREAM file was and certainly bigger than the original PowerPoint File was. This file is 6 min 41 seconds long.
It is the same file that I used yesterday, but I made it into a MP4 file at 640 x 480 with 30 frames per second. Those are the recommended statistics or parameters to make the best video.
When I inserted it into Windows Live Writer, where I have been composing my blog posts lately, it seemed to take a VERY long time, but perhaps it was being converted into UTube video style. We will see how long it takes and if it is able to be posted to my blog, or if it will be too large. I think it took about 10 minutes or so to get it formatted into the Live Writer blog composer.
So, if you see a video, it is OK. If you do not see a video, go through to my actual blog if you are in a reader. Sometimes videos, etc. don’t show up in the reader.
I think it is working right, but I wonder when you look at my blog how long it will take to start.
This is so much fun! You’d think I was a kid in a toy store! I AM!
Lifelong Learner! – that’s me!
Awesome video to introduce
the Scientific Method.
Hey did you know that when you embed a UTube video you can change certain things?
On the right side of the box where you copy the embed code, there is a button called customize. You can change the size, and the colors of the “control panel” at the bottom of the video. There’s a couple of other options as well.
I never knew this until I watched the video I just posted previous to this post. I found a comment by teacher Sean Nash from Saint Joseph High School at the website where I found that video. A student had been enthralled by the pink “control panel” at the bottom of the video and wondered how to do it. Sean replied. At first I didn’t know what Sean was talking about, but then when I saw this video, I tried it before I copied the embed code and “Voila!”
This video on Scientific Method might be a great INTRO to the school before an assembly on the topic of Science Fair Projects.
This is a a charming video about Copyright and Fair Use. The authors took little tiny snippets of characters from various Disney films to get the words into sentences that told what they wanted to tell about copyright.
Sometimes it is a little hard to understand due to that method, but if you listen carefully you will understand. You might have to listen to it more than once.
While I was listening/watching, I wanted to type out the words (text) and wished it was shown underneath or off to the side like a closed captioning.
Have fun and TURN UP THE VOLUME!
This would be interesting and appealing to students of certain ages to demonstrate what fair use is and what copyright is.
What ages do you think would best understand these concepts via this video?
Let me know what you think.
I first saw this video on Wesley Fryer’s blog, Moving at the Speed of Creativity.
What a wonderful start to the beginning of a school year.
TRY IT with your teachers, parents, students, school shareholders…
Also, while watching it, I thought about how students each year could make a video somewhat similar that is inspirational to each of them, and would help improve the self-esteem of all of our students.
Thinking about making this inspirational video reminded me of a story I had heard about a long time ago…there may be many variations on it…
…a teacher asked each student to take out a piece of notebook paper and neatly write their own name at the top in CAPITAL LETTERS and underline their name. Then each paper was passed around the classroom for every other student in the class to write a one sentence or a one word POSITIVE description of that student listed at the top of the page. At the end of the lesson, the papers were passed out to each particular student on the last day of school to remember that year of school.
The story goes on to say that one of these students went on to serve in the military and died in service to his country. At the funeral, the parents spoke with this teacher from their child’s life about how their child carried that paper with him in his wallet to the day he died – how it kept him going every single day of his life!
Now I don’t know if this is an urban legend or a nicely crafted story, but nevertheless, it is an excellent concept and could be extended into this type of a video production.
If you follow the video, you see that certain “questions” are asked of a variety of people. Then the short answers from most of the people interviewed are grouped into an “answer” to a question. The questions flow throughout the video.
When you have BIG QUESTIONS, you will receive BIG ANSWERS. It will be very effective.
This concept can also be applied to the general curriculum in many ways as well. If you just take a few minutes to think of the lessons that you want to teach your students, both those in the curriculum and for life…
What questions will you ask your students this year?
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