Sunday, March 27, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Great TeacherTube Video
I am not sure this is my favorite, but wow! I said to my wife, 'I can't do that!' She responded, 'Who can?'
This guy is incredible!
http://www1.teachertube.com/members/viewVideo.php?video_id=24266&title=Mr_Duey___Fractions_Official_Video
This guy is incredible!
http://www1.teachertube.com/members/viewVideo.php?video_id=24266&title=Mr_Duey___Fractions_Official_Video
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Rocket Launch Video
This summer I introduced my son, Harrison, to the joys of model rocketry. We had a blast. Buzz, the lil skinny rocket flew about 1200' up and we had to chase him quite a ways. Stinger, the stubby blue rocket, flew only about 800' up, but we had to get a long pole and stand on the van one time to get him out of the tree.
Podcast
I subscribed to TedTalks and the Video Math tutor. I have watched TedTalks many times, but have never been an iTunes user. I am not an Apple guy. iTunes drives me crazy. It is pretty easy just to go to the TedTalks site and watch the videos. On iTunes it takes forever to download one. I can see how iTunes can be useful for finding the podcasts, but I would just as soon find the URL and set the sites as favorites and download them from there.
TedTalks is a site which has speeches on just about any subject. I find the site very interesting. They have people talk about how to change the face of education, motivation, how to teach math, the economy, the environment, etc. It is a great site. I watched one by Bill Gates about state budgets and their affect on education.
Another site I really like is Khanacademy. There are videos on just about any subject, but these are more focused and will teach you how to do specific things. I already use this site in my classes. Kids can go here for extra help, or for ideas on topics to make videos for in class projects. I did find these podcasts on iTunes.
The Video Math tutor has 3 great podcasts on iTunes and gives a URL where he has placed many more podcasts about doing math at many different levels. After watching the one about measurement, I had a student in my class watch it on his site, as I couldn't upload iTunes at school, and then go work on the measuring problems they had in their assignments.
TedTalks is a site which has speeches on just about any subject. I find the site very interesting. They have people talk about how to change the face of education, motivation, how to teach math, the economy, the environment, etc. It is a great site. I watched one by Bill Gates about state budgets and their affect on education.
Another site I really like is Khanacademy. There are videos on just about any subject, but these are more focused and will teach you how to do specific things. I already use this site in my classes. Kids can go here for extra help, or for ideas on topics to make videos for in class projects. I did find these podcasts on iTunes.
The Video Math tutor has 3 great podcasts on iTunes and gives a URL where he has placed many more podcasts about doing math at many different levels. After watching the one about measurement, I had a student in my class watch it on his site, as I couldn't upload iTunes at school, and then go work on the measuring problems they had in their assignments.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
About me and this blog
Hello and welcome to my blog!
I hope to use this a bit more in the future. I used it sparingly last fall, as a way to get to my forum. I will have to decide which type of site I want to be my homebase. Currently I have a forum, a blog, a webpage on the school site, an Angel site and a google docs site. To me, this is a bit redundant.
I hope to use this a bit more in the future. I used it sparingly last fall, as a way to get to my forum. I will have to decide which type of site I want to be my homebase. Currently I have a forum, a blog, a webpage on the school site, an Angel site and a google docs site. To me, this is a bit redundant.
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