Lipdub Completed
It took us just over an hour to video 3 full length ‘takes’ and then a further hour or so to convert the files, edit the titles, add the soundtrack before uploading to Youtube. The students were amazingly patient as we waited …
Teaching
Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
Year 3000
Back in November I first wrote about my aspirations to create a secondary school class lip dub. I am not sure a Year 9 class is the best place to start, but they are a great bunch of hard working …
Very Important Letter
Talking of behaviour management strategies. We tried the Very Important Letter a few times in ICT and I hope to re-introduce it next year. Simply, prepare some postcards with the following message. ‘Please thank this student sincerely for delivering this postcard. …
Magic Pocket Name
Over at ‘The Teaching Palette.’ I read an appealing article titled Magic Pocket Name. Its a simple behaviour management strategy, one worth sharing with you. You can of course read the full article but here is my abbreviated version. Idenitify …
Bait
E-Learning Proverb – The bait must suit the fish, not the angler. It was a RT (re-tweet) that passed through my Twitter feed over the weekend that struck a cord. Thinking over the Moodle teachmeet presenations and looking through my …
Search Stories Video Creator
Google recently launched a new feature called the Search Stories Video Creator. This new feature prompts you to input up to seven search queries from acroos Google’s search features (including Images, Maps, and of cause web search), throw on a song …
Freedom to Make Mistakes
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Mahatma Gandhi How do we as teachers respond to incorrect answers? I like the % method, but there are others…. Well, that is 70% correct …
Security
A very simple, fun no-frills password checker. Think Yr 7 – think how to login and the importance of simple safe passwords. Just a thought, don’t test your actual password! Get your students to test fake passwords and ask them which changes had …