Okay, so I have been going crazy researching the Whole Brain Teaching concepts and I am including them into my teaching this year! I'm going to use my expectations/rules but use movements and the same method to teach them. I wish we could get this guy to come to Beverly!
Podcasting was so fun! I've actually never really understood them. I signed up to a few but I want more! I am obsessed with some HBO/Showtime shows so I signed up to those. I also found a children's story one but I don't know if the stories are too wordy. I think that might become a new obsession!
The online libraries are interesting... but my mind drew blanks when asked to search for books. I checked out top 100s and downloaded a few classics. I have an iphone so I have an app called ibooks which I can download free and paid books to read on my phone. They give you Winnie-the-Pooh for free! Soo cute! There are colored pictures and it's like a smaller ipad, which I can magnify the text.
Jillian--I love how you've put your all into these assignments this summer. I wish you were still at my school so you could tutor me with your expertise. I can't figure out how to post my You Tube link onto my blog like Kennan did with hers. Barb said to do the following (using the copy and paste code for the for "Embeddable Player.” Note: you'll need to use Blogger's Edit HTML tab when pasting this code) I have deleted my first post to try and figure it out. Your brain video that you posted reminded me of a grad class I took with Dr. Grossi from Cambridge College. Maybe I'll look him up on You tube.
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ReplyDeleteWhen you are writing a post there are two tabs one says Edit HTML and the other says compose....
When you find a video you like on YouTube... Copy the embedded code...
Go to your blog and paste it in the edit HTML then choose the compose tab and you should be able to see it there! Hope that helps!
I'll have to check out Dr. Grossi!
PS On the subject of YouTube... I am really upset that it is blocked from our computers at school now. I showed videos that related to our science topics and social studies topics. I think they should let it be available for the teachers. If teachers are smart and watch the videos before showing them then they should be okay to view by the children. What can we do?
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the videos on the whole brain teaching concepts. They were really great! Nice job:)
ReplyDeleteThe blocking of YouTube is not really a content issue but a bandwidth issue. If several people are streaming at once it turns the entire internet very slow. I don't know how likely that would be a the elementary level. But at the high school it is a huge issue.
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