OK, now it's your turn to find videos that you feel that you could use either in your own K12 classroom or for reference in your own studies. Locate two videos... one from each site below. Both were highlighted in last's sessions work:
List the two sites in your comments... with the specific URL address for each one... and, also with each listing, mention briefly (100-150 words) why you believe that they might be useful to you.
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Academic Earth: “The basic principles of political geography”
http://academicearth.org/lectures/basic-principles-political-geography
I found this video to be very helpful for my 8th grade geography students. It was hard to find a video that would be appropriate for my age level, but I find this professor to be interesting and engaging. The reason that I really like this video is because of all of the images and maps. I think that for my junior high students, it is important to show them what you are referring to on maps and with graphs. I do find this entire video to be helpful, however, but I would have to break it up into ten or fifteen minute blocks at most. My students tend to lose attention after ten minutes of any single activity. I could try to use it in installments each Friday or every morning for a week.
YouTubeEDU: “Kansas Archaeological Field School”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wytctEZMLpU
I would love to show this video to my 6th grade world history class. I think this video would be appropriate for them as we do a unit on archaeology. I have a project in place that allows them to be an archaeologist for a day. Through this project, I have found that 6th graders often think archaeologists are all old and working in other countries. I think this video could compliment that project by showing the students that there are actual archeaologists today and that it is something that they could pursue as a career.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKPhtBIsyIY&feature=related
This was a tough call to make. Most of the videos for math were too high-level for my 8th grade students, but this one presents a lot of the information we talk about in class for choosing the best type of representation for a set of data. The video goes through several examples and the graphics used are beautiful. My students will find this man’s accent interesting too, which may have them pay closer attention to what he is saying. I find it interesting that this is college-level material but my 8th graders are asked to start thinking about best-representations for data now. I’m not sure that I could show the entire video at one time and keep the interest of a class. However, in smaller bits it would be great!
http://academicearth.org/lectures/designing-interactions-that-combine-pen-paper-and-pc
This is a professional development site for me. I am very curious about where technology is taking us in moving away from pencil and paper to more digital forms of recording information. This video takes me through some different technologies that are available to use in creating digital files for what I have written by hand for years. One issue parents have with math classes is the lack of access to notes and examples done in class, except from what students write down. Many of my students are not strong note-takers and do not get all of the information I try to share with them in class. I want to know more about digital pens and optical character recognition software to help me record what I am writing in class and put it out on the web for my students and their parents to access later. From what I kept hearing in the video, some of these tools are to augmented and enhance what is already being done instead of replacing all the tools being used. The collaboration shown using the digital pen is incredible. I really enjoyed learning about this tool!
Life Long Kindergarten: Design, Play, Share, Learn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7rlLml5ReQ
I chose to watch the video Life Long Kindergarten: Design, Play, and Share, Learn because I felt that I watched this video more for professional development for myself. I did not feel that my students would be able to watch any of the lecture videos. I felt that this was a good lecture because the whole idea of this lecture was for everyone to go back to the roots of Kindergarten and learn by discovering. Even in Kindergarten classes now self discovery is not encouraged as much as it used to. In the lecture they showed a couple of videos where the computer center gave students some materials and gave them the assignment to create something. In both situations the students were able to complete the assignment without being given step by step instructions.
How do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth, and Hands
http://academicearth.org/lectures/how-do-we-communicate-language
I chose to watch this lecture because language development is an important part of Kindergarten. Children are still developing their oral language when they enter Kindergarten. Knowing how children develop their language can help identify deviancies in students. By studying language it can also help to know how other languages are developed. Also by knowing how language is developed in children can help in teaching them the basic skills in phonemic awareness and phonics to help them become sufficient readers. I may not be able to share these videos with my students but I can share these videos with colleagues to help us further our knowledge about language development
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7ebETL1hxY learning with cockroaches!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8gZCTjAbVs&feature=related Billy Nye Cells
Both of the videos are excellent The first one about cockroaches is a great tool for teachers to show you how a hands on lesson can really enhance learning! I chose the video not because I think teachers should always bring in live bugs. I chose this video to show what can happen with kids who are taught with a little hands on. Being open to new things and the new ways that children learn can help the way these students experience new and creative things. The teachers in this video actually got people from an insect place to come in and teach the students about insects. If that is an option for you that is wonderful! Go for it! However, for some of us it is not. There are several places in which you can order things of that nature and do very cool hands on things. I recently ordered caterpillars for my students to observe as we discuss the life cycle of butterflies metamorphosis. My students are so excited every morning to come in and check our their butterflies. Eventually we will watch our butterflies hatch from their chrysalis. Making science and other things come alive!
The next video is none other than Bill Nye the science guy! These videos are great for teachers! These videos make science come alive! Especially today sometimes teachers need help teaching science and these videos do that. I use these videos especially when I review after we have already learned the concept. These videos are great for review and also for introduction of material!
YouTubeEdu:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7rlLml5ReQ
I would encourage our class to watch “Lifelong Kindergarten: Design, Play, Share, Learn.” In this lecture, MIT Media Research Professor Mitch Resnic explores the utility and benefits of technology. Even the first few minutes correspond directly with questions I have studied in my professional development. Do new technologies encourage the ability to create and design? Do they promote creative thinking, or do they hinder it? Does technology “reveal ideas,” or does it, instead, support the development of ideas? My experience with the technology in my school has certainly invited me into creative ways of teaching and presenting information to my students.
Academic Earth:
http://academicearth.org/lectures/intro-literary-theory-1
It was difficult to find a lecture that I could translate to my second grade classroom that would be “kid-friendly.” This lecture on Literary Theory from Paul Fry at Yale is primarily for my own professional development. In the lecture, Professor Fry reminds that reading is a “limitless activity,” which I translate to mean that I can do many things through reading. I can perceive, write about, and discuss a text in various ways. I enjoyed the lecture because it broadened my knowledge of theory. Fry advocates that your “interpretive community” persuades what you believe about literacy. Overall, the lecture reminded me to pursue other perspectives different from my own in light of reading. I would recommend listening to minutes 9 through 11.
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