This fantastic video, Technology in Elementary Spanish, provides a great peek into an elementary Spanish classroom and includes real student opinions on their classroom technology. It was posted on TeacherTube and demonstrates the technology used in their Spanish classroom: individual response systems (eInstruction Classroom Performance System), Promethean interactive white board, 2-to-1 laptops, Internet resources, and educational software. Their equipment was provided by grants from Qwest Foundation for Education, Tanque Verde Educational Foundation, and tax credit donations. This teacher is to be commended for teaching from a kids’ perspective and obviously makes motivating her students to learn a high priority in her classroom.
This video actually shows CPS in action, and the teacher makes use of CPS in her learning time and uses both the random student picker and the jeopardy game. The student excitement is so high during the CPS time…it is great to watch! And, of course, you won’t get more honest opinions than you do from the kids! Their comments get even better the longer you watch!
Are you dealing with an administration or IT staff that blocks links to so many useful sites for fear they will be misused? The site TeacherTube may (or may not) give you a workaround. Hey, it’s worth a try. Take a look and you might find –
KISS…We all know that means Keep It Simple, Silly…right? Well Kiss YouTube does just that.
If you are like many public school teachers, your access to YouTube movies may be denied. So Kiss YouTube allows you to quickly and easily download your YouTube video so you can save it to your personal computer or flashdrive.
So…how is it so easily done?
1) Go the page on YouTube where the video you want to download is located, e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNVFuPJyN1Y
2) Change the address line by inserting ‘kiss’ in front of youtube.com, e.g. http://www.kissyoutube.com/watch?v=CNVFuPJyN1Y
3) Follow the instructions on that page to download the video, share the video, or download a link to the video.
This is a great video giving you an idea of what Web 2.0 really is. I was just amazed after watching it. It is insanity to think that kids growing up in our society today can be taught with all of the same methods that were used 50 years ago…or even 10 years ago for that matter!
Posted by Cathy 
Posted by Cathy 
Posted by Cathy 