This has to be the best video ever. Beating your head against the educational wall at it's best! Thanks for the share. Your site is filled with some great stuff.
OMG, I think that I just had this exact same conversation with my principal 2 weeks ago. That's what makes it so funny, I think this is something that we all deal with.
I had tears running down my face after watching the first video! I can relate to the poor box teacher...which is very sad and disheartening at the same time. I enjoyed watching the other videos that followed and a few things entered my mind, for example how these videos really do capture differentiated instruction from several points; the teacher, the parent (in a later video) and administration (not a very nice representation in the first video!) I also was stuck as to the technology that was used to create some of these videos...I will be researching later. I also shared this video with several of the teachers that I work with...all had the same response; LOL!
I know I left one comment here already but it is definetly worth a second. I forwarded this to a fellow teacher and then he showed it to his wife. We all laughed until we cried but even better. We looked into the site to see how the video was made and we are going to have our students make instructional videos of some sort this next trimester. Thanks for the sharing.
This video is quite cute. It seems to be the "now" thing in technology to use. Our school does video presentations for course scheduling, and our social studies used website this to create their presentation. We then broadcasted it on the morning announcements. The kids found it enjoyable. The only thing I thought was missing from the presentation was the "dog". I mean you had the "pony". Aren't all class room presentations supposed to be "dog and pony" shows? I think it is harder than ever to teach (not counting the political atmosphere), I have been teaching 15 years and my kids are great. But, they don't like to read from a book and generally groan when I have to do a presentation, though I do make it fun, so they say. I have it easier, because I teach technology classes. I know the struggles of some of friends who have some traditional classes to teach. They really don't have much time for technology because of all the "state standards" they have to get through. My friend said he was a better teacher when he had flexibility to teach and he liked using project and technology. But there is little to no time because he is required to meet all the state content. So which is more important, the state content or the implementation technology or differentiated learning???
I love these videos you can create skits with for learning purposes or even to create humor as in this situation. I think we could use this in class (the video creation tool).
It's different for us in the business sector. We don't deal with the same issues as what was represented here. Although we do ask that our trainers make their curriculum fun and differentiated, we're able to do root cause if scores drop by observing behaviors in the workplace so it's easier to pinpoint where the breakdown is occurring. I can see where this is much more difficult in K-12.
Very entertaining! I've used Xtranomal before, mine though are not as entertaining. Purposeful for educational use, especially for online courses and very easy to use!
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This is great. It reminds me of some of our inservice meetings which is sad but funny. funny because I told you so
This has to be the best video ever. Beating your head against the educational wall at it's best! Thanks for the share. Your site is filled with some great stuff.
OMG, I think that I just had this exact same conversation with my principal 2 weeks ago. That's what makes it so funny, I think this is something that we all deal with.
I had tears running down my face after watching the first video! I can relate to the poor box teacher...which is very sad and disheartening at the same time. I enjoyed watching the other videos that followed and a few things entered my mind, for example how these videos really do capture differentiated instruction from several points; the teacher, the parent (in a later video) and administration (not a very nice representation in the first video!) I also was stuck as to the technology that was used to create some of these videos...I will be researching later. I also shared this video with several of the teachers that I work with...all had the same response; LOL!
I know I left one comment here already but it is definetly worth a second. I forwarded this to a fellow teacher and then he showed it to his wife. We all laughed until we cried but even better. We looked into the site to see how the video was made and we are going to have our students make instructional videos of some sort this next trimester. Thanks for the sharing.
This video is quite cute. It seems to be the "now" thing in technology to use. Our school does video presentations for course scheduling, and our social studies used website this to create their presentation. We then broadcasted it on the morning announcements. The kids found it enjoyable.
The only thing I thought was missing from the presentation was the "dog". I mean you had the "pony". Aren't all class room presentations supposed to be "dog and pony" shows? I think it is harder than ever to teach (not counting the political atmosphere), I have been teaching 15 years and my kids are great. But, they don't like to read from a book and generally groan when I have to do a presentation, though I do make it fun, so they say. I have it easier, because I teach technology classes. I know the struggles of some of friends who have some traditional classes to teach. They really don't have much time for technology because of all the "state standards" they have to get through. My friend said he was a better teacher when he had flexibility to teach and he liked using project and technology. But there is little to no time because he is required to meet all the state content. So which is more important, the state content or the implementation technology or differentiated learning???
I love these videos you can create skits with for learning purposes or even to create humor as in this situation. I think we could use this in class (the video creation tool).
It's different for us in the business sector. We don't deal with the same issues as what was represented here. Although we do ask that our trainers make their curriculum fun and differentiated, we're able to do root cause if scores drop by observing behaviors in the workplace so it's easier to pinpoint where the breakdown is occurring. I can see where this is much more difficult in K-12.
Very entertaining! I've used Xtranomal before, mine though are not as entertaining. Purposeful for educational use, especially for online courses and very easy to use!
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