Personalized Learning Resources for Mobile Educators. I have a 45-minute commute to Knapp Elementary School each morning. Aside from sipping on my coffee, I'll tune into Philly sports radio, some Mumford & Sons or maybe even some local news. However, in December, my commute took a more reflective turn when I discovered an edu-podcast called #EdChat Radio that is now helping me think deeper in a quiet space away from the presence of students, teachers, parents and community members. As an educator and learner, making time to reflect on where your learning community is hitting or missing the mark is invaluable. At the time of this post, there are nine 10-to-15-minute #EdChat Radio posted on the BAM Radio Network's site, the hub of these and other podcast channels produced especially for parents, educators and leaders. Recent #EdChat Radio Topics These podcasts are all available free on iTunes: EdCamp: Flipping the Approach to Professional DevelopmentOutdated Teaching Methods and the Teachers Who Love ThemWhy EdChat?
Logistics for Your Car. Create infographics & online charts | infogr.am. Best content in Literacy with ICT. 10 Ideas for Classroom Video Projects. “… ten years ago, not one student in a hundred, nay, one in a thousand, could have produced videos like this. It’s a whole new skill, a vital and important skill, and one utterly necessary not simply from the perspective of creating but also of comprehending video communication today.” (Stephen Downes) If you follow my Twitter-stream, you know that I spend a lot of time viewing, collecting & sharing videos.
In this post, I share ideas on certain types of videos that I’ve gathered and how educators might use related methods or styles to engage students in constructing and deconstructing media while becoming critical consumers and producers of digital media. 1) Conversation with Future Me/You: “A Conversation with My 12 Year Old Self: 20th Anniversary Edition” is a recently popular video by Jeremiah McDonald. Another angle for this activity could be to create a video or a dialogue with a literary, historical or popular media character. 2) Genre Shifting Movie Trailers: 5) Stop Motion: Playdoh planet earth and some babbling too. Hello my fabulous readers!
Sorry for my long hiatus. I wanted to take some time off to get some Spring cleaning done and start myself on a workout routine. I’m happy to report that I got both done. Since I started this blog I haven’t taken more than a couple days off at a time and it really felt good. Truth be told, I even contemplated giving up the blog all together. A lot of people who read this blog don’t know that I actually work full-time, Monday to Friday, outside the home.
Okay, enough babbling, now onto the craft. What you’ll need: play doh – blue, green, black, yellow, orange, red What the earth layers are: RED – inner core ORANGE – outer core YELLOW – mantle BLACK – crust BLUE AND GREEN – land and water They thought it looked cool enough when I just showed them the blue and green planet earth. I actually did get this idea from somewhere on the web, but for the life of me I can’t find where to give proper credit.