All Blog Posts Tagged 'videos' (10)

Teacher webpages: Everyone's getting one, so you want to join the fun, right? 

Fantastic! But -- just like all best practice -- you have to have a plan when you start building your page.

Webpages are a great tool for communicating with students and their parents, but must be treated with careful thought, not just as a last-minute add-on accessory if…

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As a fun activity in the short time we had between the end of PSSA's and the beginning of Marking Period 4, I challenged my 7th grade Mechanicsburg Middle School Pre-Algebra kids to research and create paperslide videos relating to a topic they had ALREADY learned during the year.  Prior to beginning, I showed the students what a paperslide video was, how it was made and what it should look like by USING paperslide examples. 

I allowed the students to create their own groups of 2 or 3…

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The last few years, I've been very focused on the role and possibility of video in the classroom. Thus, my recent work developing EnglishCentral and my focus on the potential of a "Flipped Classroom".

 

I had an interesting skype…

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It's never too early in the year to begin thinking about Parent Night.

 

The thought of talking for an hour to a group of adults seems daunting. Even with children, I try to speak no more than five minutes before directing them to an activity that synthesizes what was shared.

 

I have parents and students do the talking. Here are some suggestions if you want to get parents and students more active in the process:

 

1. Have parents active from the…

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Hey!Today was one of the busiest and tiring days in my life.But you

know, the most important thing is that you shouldn't make your students

realize your situation.I did the same.Actually, when I start teaching ,I

forget all about my problems as I focus on my job.Anyway,I will

introduce you a few listening and esl video websites.I am so impatient

to share them with you:) Whatever.Let's start.Here is the first one… Continue

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Click here to view show notes, including the best part - the links.

Click here to view the shownotes.

Hi, my name is Grace Oh, and I head the education program for a company called Musicshake. Musicshake is a super-easy, user-friendly music making program that students can use to create their own music. We have over 550,000 different music blocks, and each block is an individual instrument sound, or sound effect, that is then mixed, matched, and layered to create your own original music.



We own all the copyrights to our music so we can grant our users the peace of mind of using… Continue

Animoto provides a free Web 2.0 video service for educators.



Videos can be made from images and music can be added as a sound track.



Student videos can be as short as 30 seconds or longer.



Students can make videos of their class projects and embed them in a class Wiki, blog, or in a multimedia presentation.



The flexibility and ease of this service adds a new dimension for teachers and their… Continue