Welcome to the first edition of the Digital Storytelling Carnival and for visiting the newly relaunched Video in the Classroom.com Thank you for visiting and a special thank you to everyone who submitted an article. There’s a lot here to enjoy and learn from. As long as interest keeps up I’d like to make this …
Category: Educational Technology
Design and Storytelling in Film
An interesting conversation began in Students 2.0, where Anthony, a high school student, wrote, “…like home movies, most…student videos are lacking a thesis and a design to support them. As technology allows us to integrate creative projects…we need to give students the tools to funnel their creative efforts into an effective and cohesive whole.” I …
The Concept/Question Board: Wikipedia on Your Wall
The Concept/Question Board, the second cousin twice removed, to the KWL chart, is a required component of the Open Court Reading program. Some teachers don’t use it at all. Others have gotten good at putting them up but then they just kind of hang there like wallpaper, barely touched until the end of the unit …
Why Integrate Video Production in the Classroom?
Excerpted from Video in the Classroom.com 1. Student engagement. Too many students in urban cities are dropping out. Engaging students early and providing positive experiences with school can help to hook these students before they leave. 2. Student achievement. Every classroom has a few students who are below grade level. Traditional teaching is not working …
My Favorite Interactive Advertising Sites of the Year
I hope you’re enjoying your vacation and a well deserved break. I expect to return to serious blogging in the new year but this is just for fun. I’ve learned in 2007 that I’m a sucker for interactive advertising. It doesn’t make me go out and see the movie but it does get me to …
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Energize Your Classroom: How Jim Cramer Made Me a Better Teacher of English Language Learners
I’ve become a better teacher of English Language Learners by watching one of my favorite TV Shows, Jim Cramer’s Mad Money. This is a show about buying stocks. If you’re not interested in stocks you might be turned off already, but Jim Cramer is an entertainer. He takes what could be boring and incomprehensible and …
Celebrate Seuss Day Collaboratively Across the World
I’ve been doing a lot of work at my new school with video conferencing as unit opener and culminating activity. We spoke with Cornell University’s bird scientists last month and we just spoke with another third grade class in LAUSD to share our new knowledge about City Wildlife. Here’s an opportunity to video conference for …
Gifted Education and Equity
Elona, a Canadian middle school special education teacher and author of Teachers At Risk, writes today about the inequity of excluding special education students from activities designated for gifted students.I’d like to think these things happen only in Canada but they don’t. I’ve written before about how technology tools like movie making are often saved …
Concerns Over Kids’ Safety Online is Overblown…
According to this study sponsored by Microsoft. While the sponsor of the study might reveal a possible bias, I do tend to agree that stories of the internet’s dangers are often exaggerated because of adults’ own fears of new technology. Whether fears are overblown or not I think we need to be educating students and …
How Not To Use Powerpoint
This movie has certainly made the rounds but you may not have seen it. This is a fantastic and funny illustration of everything that’s wrong with powerpoint presentations used for most professional development.