Here are five ideas and tools for video projects that you can try with your students
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Our world is a complex network of people, places and things. Here are 32 maps will teach you something new about our diverse and interconnected planet. 
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July 19, 2015 8:56 AM
Another thin is to identify different cultures for resources.
What are the trends in financial ups and downs.
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What is The Conversation Prism? Developed in 2008 by Brian Solis, The Conversation Prism is a visual map of the social media landscape. It’s an ongoing study in digital ethnography that tracks dominant and promising social networks and organizes them by how they’re used in everyday life.
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June 10, 2015 9:41 AM
Given the role of conversation in the wider world, do we pay enough attention to oral communication skills in school?
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Based on the work of Stanford University psychologist, Carol Dweck, the idea of mindset is related to our understanding of where ability comes from. It has recently been seized upon by educators as a tool to explore our knowledge of student achievement, and ways that such achievement might be improved.
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How does a person fall in love with math? For too many, math class conjures up anxious worksheets filled with rows of unanswered problems. Students go along, seeming to perform the steps required -- plug in the formulas, solve for x -- without ever understanding what they’re doing, or why.
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Introduce students to the world of etymology and morphemes as they become linguistic detectives solving the mysteries of those puzzling "sight words."
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A worldwide portal devoted to the fullest sharing of academic resources and practical tools on Appreciative Inquiry and the rapidly growing discipline of positive change.
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100 Titles for Reading and Sharing from the New York Public Library~2014
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Practicing kindness has proven health and psychological benefits, and teaching kindness contributes to behaviour patterns that counteract the impulse toward bullying.
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Even as the emphasis shifts to the keyboard, experts say that learning to write by hand improves motor skills, memory and creativity.
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December 7, 2014 4:01 PM
What do we gain and lose as our brains rewire with the changing patterns of our culture?
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Google Keep is an excellent tool to use for creating digital sticky notes. You can use both text and images to capture and share your notes. You can also use it to create to-do lists and bookmark content from the web.It has an intuitive and user friendly interface that makes it way simpler to navigate and control than is the case with several other note-taking apps out there.
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Their mission is to promote inquiry based learning as the stance that is foundational for all aspects of life of a school community. It is based on the belief that understanding is constructed in the process of people working together to solve the problems that arise in the course of shared activity.
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"Whether you’re practicing flipped or blended learning in your classroom, set the occasional video assignment, or have just observed that your students are part of the Netflix generation, you’ve likely seen what a powerful tool video can be for teaching and learning. And, while there’s certainly a wealth of great educational content available online, sometimes you — and your students — will want to create your own. "Terrific news: It’s never been easier to create great video content! We know that quality matters; viewers rarely find shaky, inaudible and poorly lit video terribly engaging. But, an understanding of commonly available software, tools and basic production techniques is all you (and your students) need to create great quality video content. Best of all, you probably have most of the tools you need sitting on your desk right now. In this guide we’ll cover everything you need to know to produce educational and instructional videos using your PC and webcam. Why create your own video content?" 02 What you need to get started 03 Webcam and screen recording software 04 Upgrading your microphone 05 Upgrading your camera 05 Recording video on a smartphone or tablet 06 Production 06 Planning your video 07 Recording crystal–clear sound 08 Getting the most out of your webcam 09 Post–production 10 Adding titles 10 Adjusting volume levels 1 10 Removing background noise and fine–tuning your voiceover 11 Adding closed captions for accessibility Jim Lerman's insight: Free with registration. Very comprehensive, especially for such a short and user-friendly document. Via Jim Lerman
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July 2, 2015 5:09 AM
Le besoin de créer des vidéos augmente de jour en jour. Voici un bon guide simple qui montre l'essentiel.
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As with most education jargon, the phrase isn’t fixed, but it usually connects to the idea that not all students need the same thing at the same time. It implies choice, multiple pathways to learning, many ways to demonstrate competency and resists the notion that all students learn the same way.
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These channels feature a treasure trove of educational videos covering various scientific phenomena. The content is student friendly and you will definitely find things to incorporate in your classroom teaching.
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Aging affects all of us, but just because our appearance has changed, doesn't mean our identities have. That's exactly what Czech photographer Jan Langer wanted to capture with his collection, "Faces Of Century."
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Educators have been talking about changing the traditional way of teaching math for a long time, but nothing seems to change. Elizabeth Green’s New York Times Magazine article digs into why it has been so hard for schools to effectively implement changes to math pedagogy.
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Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a way of looking at oorganizational change which focuses on doing more of what is already working, rather than focusing on fixing problems. It mobilises strategic change by focusing on the core strengths of an organization, then using those strengths to reshape the future.
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A growing body of research suggests that teaching really young kids how to recognize and express their feelings can help them into their adult lives.
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In a rapidly changing world, today's students will need a whole new set of skills to solve tomorrow's problems. Computational thinking gives them the ability to recognize when and how technology can boost their own critical-thinking, creative and problem-solving skills in order to find innovative solutions to real-world problems.
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The phrase “personalized learning” gets tossed around a lot in education circles. As with most education jargon, the phrase isn’t fixed, but it usually connects to the idea that not all students need the same thing at the same time. It implies choice, multiple pathways to learning, many ways to demonstrate competency and resists the notion that all students learn the same way.
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