One thing I do agree with, and will definitely use in my classroom, is incorporating videos into students' projects. I would like to teach ESL and Spanish, and I remember in my high school Spanish classes we made many videos. Videos are a fun way to learn and get students engaged.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Week #9 - "Caught on Video"
This article was very interesting and gave me a lot of ideas to think about and consider. Bob Spankle presents many ways to use video in the classroom. I think he presents many good points but also brings up ideas that I am not sure I would do myself. For a teacher who is very tech savy, I suppose they could use video successfully in just about every way and context within the classroom. But for myself, some of the ideas presented here, would be much more well done if I was to communicate the ideas myself, and not through video. One aspect that I have never considered that he emphasized was video taping the students so that you can actually show the parents footage of their students in action. This is a good idea but I am not sure if I would do it.
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Alice! I agree video is both amazing and terrifying for me as a teacher! I love the idea of video but I also am not super comfortable with it and would probably be more effective staying away from it. However, I agree with you in that video is an excellent aspect of projects. I remember doing Bible video projects in Jr. High and loving it :). I also think that for English Language Learners video is excellent because it is very visual :).
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