DANG IT!

It won't upload to youtube, it says it is waiting for acknowlegdement. I'm gonna try again later

Media Project Update

The main difficulty we have been having with out media project is finding a time that we can get together to film the project. The good thing is that we have a very solid idea of what we are going to do so when we do get started it will be very efficient. We are going to be creating a sample student project. For the assignment the students will demonstrate how to effectively communicate and interact with people who are different from them. It is going to be sweet!

Multimedia ideas

For the mutlimedia project I will be working with David Ames. We are going to be creating a sample student project. The students will be learning about how to deal with others who they have differences with and demonstrating the appropriate behavior. In our specific video we will be having an interview between a white man and a black-mexican, pregnant women. We will be demonstrating how to bad the situation could turn and how to appropriately handle the situation. This is done on a video so that the students will really take the time to think about how to handle the situation. Also, it will help the students who have reservations about getting up in front of the class feel more comfortable participating.

Video

I think that video is a great resource in a classroom, especially in a history classroom. It is a great way to supplement and reinforce the understanding of the students. Video from the time period that students are studying can be a great way for the students to relate to the past and to get a better sense of what the people were like. Even though video is a great tool, it can also be overused. In my classroom I will try to make it to that a video is a treat not naptime.

New Idea

I decided not to work with Google Earth. The reason I changed my mind is because Google Earth is too ugly to work with (I know that sound lame, but it was just hard for me to look at). So I decided to figure something else out. I got an idea off of the wikispaces site you showed us last tuesday. I ended up with a project that using the website ToonDoo. ToonDoo is a site were you can make cartoons. I used it to create a lesson about propaganda. It was way fun and much more pretty :)