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Teaching Techniques for classroom management (video from NYT)

via nytimes.com – Head of the Class
Some good technique videos of class management: reading aloud, setting high expectations, calling on students, correcting behavior with and signals, and mixing joy and structure.

Funny or Die’s SNL Presidential Reunion, advocating Consumer Financial Protection Agency

Thanks to @mrdistek for the video. This is pretty good. It’s good to see all of the past Presidents (SNL-style) together. Some carry it off better than others, but it’s good none-the-less.

Make no mistake, though. This is a political ad and that point is driven forward to a point that really kills the comedic effect. They are advocating for a Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

Tom Brokaw Explains Canada To Americans

This is a good video that briefly shows our close relationship. It is nice to see it, as brief as it is, on national TV. However, I can’t imagine that anything there was particularly surprising to Americans (yes, US Americans).

The comments section drives me nuts, though. I’m not sure why I read the comments section ever. It’s like that inner need to watch a tragedy. The best comments are people expressing pride for Canada and both groups expression appreciation for one another. At worst is it a mixture of outright trolls and left-handed complements (directed at both nations), ugh!

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BubblePLY & Screenr

[EDIT 10/3/2012 – I removed the links to BubblePLY. After trying it out again, I got virus warnings. My old video links directly to the download page now. Overall, I just have bad vibes about it and I don’t want anyone going there off of my recommendation.   However, Screenr is still wonderful.]

BubblePLY is a very cool annotation tool for online videos.  It accepts more than just YouTube, but it makes no guarantees about those it will accept.  I suppose you’ll just have to try it out and see.

 

BubblePLY enables you to put text annotations, subtitles, and even images and video on top of the video.  This is a great tool for teachers.  Imagine the benefits of being able to annotate instructional videos.

 

Here is a sample (though, not good one) from my personal video collection:

 

[edit – The embed doesn’t seem to work, which is unfortunate. I hope that they fix this. Here is the link to the video.]

 

 

Here is a screencast of the process done with Screenr.  You’ll notice the audio isn’t very good.  I think that’s my microphone (and/or audio card).  Both BubblePLY and Screenr is a great job, though.

 

TubeChop

TubeChop is a great YouTube editing tool.  No need to register or log in.

As a teacher, I often just want to show a piece, or a series of pieces of a video to a class.  TubeChop makes this easy.  Just grab the URL for the YouTube video you want to edit (or do a keyword search from the YouChop site) and paste it into the text box on the YouChop homepage.  YouChop with then load it into the editor and you can choose a range of time (the portion of the video you want to watch) using a slider for start and finish.  Then “Chop It”.

The site will them give you a link and embed code that you can use to disseminate the finished product.  Very easy and very convenient.

Give it a try.  Here is the resulting 10 second piece that I cut from a 5 minute video

YouTube – The Time Machine: START HERE!

YouTube – The Time Machine: START HERE!

This is great. I’ve often thought about choose your own adventure types of videos and how they would be great. Someone finally did the work to do it, using YouTubes annotation feature. This just blows me away (the idea, not necessarily the video 🙂

Hat tip to Alec at Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy for the find.

Just imagine doing one of these with your students. It would be great. They could all take a branch of the story. Maybe the class could determine a few endings and set a goal to reach those endings within a number of steps (depending on the scope of the project). This could be a sizable undertaking, but one that could be a LOT of fun. I have flashbacks of high school when students would do projects for variety shows and pep rallies. Some of these included pre-recorded video that students, teachers, administrators, and members of the public participated in. They were great. Take this to another level and take the adventures through multiple threads. Incredible potential here for a fun, educational activity.

Check out the start here and wait until the end to make your choice.

Totlol – Video for Kids. Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers, Grade School, Tweens and Parents

Totlol – Video for Kids. Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers, Grade School, Tweens and Parents

Looking for child-safe videos, this may be the place. It’s tough to know just how well this will work, but if the community grows and becomes active, it could be great. The site pulls content from YouTube and the community moderates it. In addition, no questionable Google Ads along the side advertising “Go Get Your Date On.”

The only problem that I see so far is that they stripped the ability to embed. Ning was able to do it, so I think that it’s doable. They will see adoption lag (maybe deadly lag) unless they do this. It’s all about sharing these days. Mommy and Daddy blogs want to sharing this content. They don’t want to send people off their pages.

Here’s a good example of videos on the site

At this point, there is no advertising. This is good, because who likes ads. It’s bad because without ads they’ll never be able to pay the bills and this will float away. I just hope they don’t ruin everything and throw up Google Ads.

Mathmaticious – Sumersetinc


This is really good. I don’t know if he did it as part of a school project or on his own, but it really rocks. I would like to thank fletcher3836 for the link.

I’m not showing you this just because I think it’s fun. I’m showing you because this is the quality that our students can produce. It’s not that difficult. With the editing software available today, mixing your own music videos is easy. I’m not going to say that the whole process is an afternoon affair, it’s surely not. However, it is reasonable to expect teams of students to produce works of this nature.

Next term, for the first time, I am going to try to have my conversation class (intermediate) put together a video. I’ve been looking for ways to get them more involved and I think that this would be a good method. I’ll give them examples of scripts, complete with stage directions, and then have them write ones of their own. I’ll put together teams based on who is willing to be an actor/actress (not many will volunteer). I’ll also make it clear that we will upload these to UCC (user-created content) sites like YouTube, Cyworld, Naver, and the like. I hope this become more of a motivation tool than a source of anxiety. We’ll seel.

Dan

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