WEBSITE: www.teachertube.com Hillcrest Middle Schools Fall Fiasco 2009 promo video for the staff versus students volleyball game.
Tags: tube, Glendale, lesson, freeAn Arizona State University professor sees a bright future for video games in the learning process - in and out of school. See more about the future of education, including youth profiles, at our Digital Generation Project: www.edutopia.org
Tags: edutopia.org, public school, Child, video gamesTucson elementary schools find success by infusing art and music into every discipline. Learn more in our "Why Arts Education Must Be Saved: Special Report": www.edutopia.org
Tags: GLEF, Education, teaching, edutopiaWEBSITE: www.teachertube.com An interview with Mrs. Platts
Tags: lesson, University, tempe, tubeWEBSITE: www.teachertube.com Carol Harper and Pat Burdette of Bustoz Elementary School with Stretching Harcourt The Art of Literacy for Third Grade Extensions that Engage Students Stretching Harcourt is a group of activities that extend each story in the Harcourt reading series. These activities took the stories read in class a step further and gave thirdgraders necessary resources to connect what they read to other areas of study such as science math and social studies. The use of worksheets charts and graphs allowed the students to see how areas of study can parallel each other.
Tags: student, teachers, Resource, arizonaThis is the VOA Special English Education Report, from voaspecialenglish.com We received a question from a listener about how American schools use educational technology. There is not a simple answer. It depends on the subject and level of students, of course. But it also depends on the interest and training of the teachers, and the goals and budgets of the schools. Schools are almost all connected to the Internet. But some have more technology, and use it more, than others. For example, some schools use computers for activities like video conferencing, to bring the world into the classroom. And some classrooms are equipped with things like a Smart Board, a kind of interactive whiteboard. Interactive whiteboards are large displays for presentations. They connect to a computer and can operate by touch. They can be used for documents or writing or to project video. Some teachers are trying creative new ways to teach with devices like iPods and mobile phones. But educators say the most important thing, as always, is the content. Yet technology can have special importance in some cases. Cosmobot is a therapy robot. It stands about half a meter tall and has a blue body and a friendly face with big eyes. One child who works with it is six-year-old Kevin Fitzgerald. Kevin has developmental dyspraxia; he has difficulty moving his mouth and tongue. He works with Carole Semango-Sprouse as he uses a set of buttons attached to a computer. He can make the silent robot move forward ...
Tags: higher, voice, tertiary, HealthWEBSITE: www.teachertube.com Anna McWhirter of Evans Elementary School with Finding the Main Idea with Mac and PC This project uses sources of popular entertainment such as songs movies commercials and web pages to teach fifthgraders how to find the main idea within a text. As a result of the project many students improved their standardized test scores and their confidence. Prior to the project many students had difficulty restating information from what they heard viewed or read.
Tags: Elementary, writing, plans, tutorialWEBSITE: www.teachertube.com This short video was used for the introduction to the NETS Day event
Tags: Elementary, Resource, student, freeOur students tell us what they like best about kindergarten.
Tags: schools, kindergarten, School, EducationWEBSITE: www.teachertube.com Roosevelt School District in South Phoenix. Produced by Kevin Spidel bluedynamic LLC.
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