This was a very energetic vidcast that I enjoyed watching with my class team. We brainstormed ideas for our pod and vidcasts and thought of ways we could recreate something like this for other class projects and our future classrooms. The chorus: "Every person you can know, every place you can go, and anything you can show" was very catchy and even could work more effectively than that average 'person, place, or thing' memorization tool that is most often used in defining nouns. I also learned that music is an extremely effective tool to use in vidcasts.
Why Let Our Students Blog:
In this music slide video presentation, I learned a few reasons why blogging can be a useful learning tool for students. They can feel the same way I do when they get a comment on their post... basically like the coolest person alive. I have gotten several prompts and advice to become a writer as people have commented compliments on my blog. That has been an effective motivating tool in my writing career to have an encouraging audience. My nephew, who is in the 3rd grade was given a blog of his very own for Christmas from my sister. He constantly hears all of his aunts and his grandma talking about how great blogs are, so he caught on to their 'coolness.' He was very excited to receive his very own football decorated blog with a picture of him scoring a touchdown front and center. From him having a blog, I made the connection to this video that he felt empowered, motivated, and he was was able to interact with our family of bloggers. There are many reasons to incorporate kids with the blogging world, and I found it interesting that the person who created the video is from New Zealand. Talk about connecting with the world! Children can learn things from bloggers in the third grade all the way in New Zealand. That's pretty sweet.
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