Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Let's get there

TeacherTube boasts 15,000 student-and teacher-made instructional videos.

When students create instructional videos they are creating meaning for themselves and their audience. It is a powerful way to demonstrate understanding. It is an engaging way to motivate students.

The results are an increasingly fundamental resource for teaching in the classroom and at home.

And I'm agonizing that at ACS, with our tech resources and expertise, that we are not filling up our shared folder with dozens of student-made videos to help us understand fractions and the water cycle, pincer movements and cold fronts, Greek mythology and cell structure - all to be used as instructional aids in our K-12 building at a click of the mouse.

We can build 'em at the library. Send us the kids.


A sample video from TeacherTube.

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