Webcam and Research projects

Flixn

My first WebCam production from my home.

I am looking forward to using this resource in my classroom. However, this maybe blocked so I hope you will look at the video and also check out Flixn.com

Brookfield Zoo Video

As I walked around the Brookfield Zoo with my digital camera and students, I began wondering if I would be able to post this video on my blog. After successfully posting the video, I went to school and noticed the video is blocked. It cannot be seen by my students and/or is completely gone, vanished. The aggressive blocking is harming many learning moments for our students. Isn't there another way???? What about all the websites that are full of valuable information?



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Aggressive Blocking

Research, reading, and the Internet

It is interesting to talk with adults and students about researching on the Internet and how they consider the Internet as not reading. Many students will spend hours researching, reading, and collecting resources for their reports only to say that they haven’t been reading. Students mention that the day goes by faster on days they are working on computers and notice that they quite often do not tire of reading Internet Websites. It always amazes me that my students and acquaintances do not consider that they are spending hours reading when taking care of emails, IMing, and visiting various Websites.


The Internet is full of remarkable resources that require reading.
We can learn about many things while surfing the web; for example, here is an Website on elephants.

Backchannels and Wikis

Here is an awesome teaching video of information on Wikis and The Flat classroom.



http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/QLox8kSjp,x9MygcHOnnqw


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Backchannels

Windy Day!

It was a very windy day at Brookfield Zoo!
The students enjoyed watching the animals and walking around in the awesome open areas around the Zoo.

This was a day full of fun and excitement. The animals were visible, active, and interesting to watch. As we were walking by the lions' den, we heard a lion roaring. We also captured on video spider monkeys, elephants, giraffes, bison, and camels.

Dont' Give up! Keep Trying!

This is an outstanding video clip from YouTube that I first viewed on the Cool Cat Teacher's Blogspot

Do you very best in everything you do and try! Great motivational video.





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October

What an exciting month for teaching and learning about wikis, blogs, and podcasting. This month the class goal is to podcast. We want to record Reader's Theater productions. This will be new to our school and the students are very excited about preparing something for an audience.

I feel I have seen an increase in participation in writing because the students have an audience when they write and their work is publihsed.

Check out what they have been writing at http://pritchardspress.blogspot.com



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