Thing # 12-13

Discovery Exercise 1: 

I have been very interested in a few topics lately so I went on youtube and started searching under some of the topics.  I came across this one after about 45 minutes and watched it.  I found it very heartwarming and so important.  Basically it is about play and the importance of play in not only children's lives but also in adults.  That is why I chose this blog post.  It is over 15 minutes and it kept my attention the whole time so i felt it was good enough to share.
I liked how he was dressed all goofy so that might be one fun thing to do in my post if I decide to have it geared to my kids but that might be to silly.  It might be cool to do a post of experiments for the students.  Then we could do some of the fun experiments at school.  Melissa and I saw Steve the science guy and that was really fun so maybe something like that would be fun to create.  Another one of my favorite videos from YouTube that I always use is class is Jack Hartman and learning the teen numbers.  The guy is definitely goofy for my taste but he does have some great songs that the kids love.  Here it is:

This video is great.  I would love to figure out how they make all the slides come in and then move to video.  I love singing but again I don't want to look like a dork.  LOL  Jack Hartman is looking too goofy but the kids love....love this song.

Discovery Exercise 2:  Making this video is a bit awkward because I would rather not see myself.  LOL  It was a fun activity but I will start brainstorming ways to create videos and screencasts to use in teaching without showing myself.  This is great practice to start implementing for my website I am creating for parents to refer to in the summer.

Discovery Exercise 3:
There are some definite advantages of having learning videos available online using sites like YouTube.  First, videos can show a more fun side to learning something, a teacher can create playlists to use with lessons to jazz it up, class lessons could be recorded and used later for a flipped classroom or regular classroom and students are more engaged in visually stimulating videos.   Student-created work would also be very helpful if uploaded as long as the student work is protected and remains anonymous. A teacher could use student work videos to show examples to classes and the students would love seeing what they have done on a video. I love how using SchoolTube and / or TeacherTube are safe and protected.  You can also view tremendous amount of videos to refer to for your lessons.