World History
Believe it or not, but a fellow chair asked what we are doing for our end of the year project. Some of my students will be looking at an immigrant in their family and writing an original essay on that person, but they also need to have a narrated video on the person. So I am toying with them using YouTube to edit it since they now have access to accounts in it. Above is a video explaining how to use it.
- Zaption To Personalize Your Flipped Vidoes
Thanks to Scott Nichols for this tip. Zaption allows you to take any YouTube or Vimeo video, edit them, add questions, text and images and then share it with your students using a url. It is also free! Below is a video explaining how to do...
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After years of being an AP coordinator and department chair I still know if someone will generally make a great teacher in the first few minutes I meet them. But explaining it is a bit harder. Having said that I know while a number of teachers...
- World's Most Typical Human
We just finished our India unit and now are into China so I showed the bottom video to our students. It is a great clip from National Geographic showing that the most typical person in the world is a Han Chinese man. There is more to it...
- Smartphone As Your Computer
Sorry to be on such a smartphone kick, but I am trying to get used to my new phone quickly. As most of you know you can edit your Google Docs items from any mobile device. My students who have tried it get a kick out of working on their phone...
- Wevideo Editor
Ever since Jaycut was bought by Blackberry, I have been looking for a cloud based editor where one can edit videos in the cloud. Finally I have found it with WeVideo. Wevideo gives you two options (see video above) to either edit it in your...
World History
Editing in YouTube
Believe it or not, but a fellow chair asked what we are doing for our end of the year project. Some of my students will be looking at an immigrant in their family and writing an original essay on that person, but they also need to have a narrated video on the person. So I am toying with them using YouTube to edit it since they now have access to accounts in it. Above is a video explaining how to use it.
- Zaption To Personalize Your Flipped Vidoes
Thanks to Scott Nichols for this tip. Zaption allows you to take any YouTube or Vimeo video, edit them, add questions, text and images and then share it with your students using a url. It is also free! Below is a video explaining how to do...
- What Makes A Great Teacher?
After years of being an AP coordinator and department chair I still know if someone will generally make a great teacher in the first few minutes I meet them. But explaining it is a bit harder. Having said that I know while a number of teachers...
- World's Most Typical Human
We just finished our India unit and now are into China so I showed the bottom video to our students. It is a great clip from National Geographic showing that the most typical person in the world is a Han Chinese man. There is more to it...
- Smartphone As Your Computer
Sorry to be on such a smartphone kick, but I am trying to get used to my new phone quickly. As most of you know you can edit your Google Docs items from any mobile device. My students who have tried it get a kick out of working on their phone...
- Wevideo Editor
Ever since Jaycut was bought by Blackberry, I have been looking for a cloud based editor where one can edit videos in the cloud. Finally I have found it with WeVideo. Wevideo gives you two options (see video above) to either edit it in your...