I’m getting ready to attend a Teacher Training Institute where teachers will received their own pocket Flip Video Camera. I thought it might be nice to share some of the great ways they can use it. Tom Barrett’s collection of ideas might be a great start! If you have any other ideas, please comment below or send the to Tom….or better yet…do both! :)
Fourth Graders at Clearbrook Elementary are participating in a cross-state Virginia Regions project on the Regions of VA Wiki. While Mrs. Schlosser’s Social Studies classes are participating in some of the projects on the wiki as a group, a few students decided to participate in the podcast project on their own. During their free time, they created a song about the Regions of Virginia. After practicing it, it’s been recorded and posted on the wiki. I’m so impressed that these kids worked on this song on their own, and think they did a great job! It’s a familiar tune…but after I listen to it, I walk around with their song in my head for hours. In case you’d like to listen, here it is:
Regions of VA from Tina Coffey on Vimeo.
You can also find it on the Regions of VA Wiki under podcasts. Nice job, ladies!
If you live in Virginia, there’s still time for your class to jump in an participate in SOME or ALL of the projects on the wiki. Please join us!!
I love this concept. People will do harder things if you make it FUN! I just love to see that principle working in classrooms…and I often do!!!
Thanks to Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod for this latest version of “Did You Know?” It definitely gives you food for thought! What does this mean for our schools?
Thom Ryder sent this video out to the staff at Oak Grove, and it’s really good. Just had to share:
To see a list of the statistics quoted (and their sources), you can check out this blog post from Socialnomics.
Take a look at a new resource that allows you to learn more about the soliders that have given their lives for our country. It’s called Map the Fallen, and it’s an interactive file you can view in Google Earth. Here’s a video from CNN about it:
Thanks to Kevin Jarrett for sharing this tool!
Laura Sadler posted this great video on her blog. Since we are getting close to the end of they year, I thought I’d share. The singer is Kevin Honeycutt with ESSDACK.
I love the way this video pulls together people from around the world…and I love the message!
Playing For Change | Song Around The World “Stand By Me” from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.
Last year I promised to re-post this video on the 100th Day of School…so here it is!
Also, if you haven’t seen the 100th Day activities on the ITRT site, check them out here! If you are using IE 6, you may need to refresh the page once (we haven’t quite fixed that problem yet).
