Klartext 20110516
På månadagen berättade Klartext att en domstol i Haag vill ha en rättegång mot Libyens ledare Muammar Kadaffi. Vi berättade också att ett nytt företag i Kina vill göra affärer med Saab. Dessutom berättade vi hur det gick i omvalet i Västra Götalands-regionen och Örebro.
GRIT TV Interview: Playing Politics with the Budget
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Conversations with Great Minds on Thom Hartmann
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CREATE: The highest level of thinking (Art)
Deep understanding and higher level thinking come together as students process curricular content to CREATE digital stories is the purpose of this three minute video. Bloom's digital taxonomy is used and shown. Lots of examples are shown.
Learn How to Write an Essay - First Draft, Revisions, and Proofreading
An Essay - First Draft, Revisions and Proofreading - Learn how to Write an Essay - First Draft, Revisions and Proofreading. Obviously, this video is too short to cover everything in depth, however, it will give the viewer some basics. (01:38)
How the Universe Works: Birth of a Black Hole
This two minute video explains that most black holes probably are formed when supermassive stars collapse into a dense gravitational mass that absorbs all light. Good graphics and explanation.
Images from El Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
This vidoe contains images from "Dia de los Muertos". It has a Spanish song in the background but contains no verbal or written explaination as to the meaning of the objects.
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubmans life story on how she never gave up is the theme of this 2:41 long student made video. The video outlines her life and is well worth watching, however the images don't have captions and there are a number of grammatical errors.
Teachers Demonstrate Effective Descriptive Feedback to Their Class Using Moon Journals-Part 1 of 2
Using appropriate and respectful vocabulary, two teachers share their own moon journals and give each other feedback. Students deepen their appreciation of the value of descriptive feedback and gain insight into how to give and receive descriptive feedback. They reflect on the demonstration and co-create success criteria for effective feedback sessions. This is a great teaching resource to enhance a writing curriculum and to create a literacy rich environment. The teachers provide
Animal Cells by StudyJams
Animal cells have many functions that support the life of the animal. Animal cells also have lots of different parts, including the cell body, cytoplasm, mitochondria, nucleus, vacuole, and cell membrane. Learn more about the parts of a cell with this slide show from StudyJams. Vibrant images are set to music while information is written under each photo. A short, self-checking quiz is also included in this link.
Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
This 2:44 long video explains how an experienced social studies teacher started to use Digital Storytelling to engage her students in the classroom. There is little hands on examples and most of the information does not offer how the student work is evaluated or how it has improved their understanding of the topic.
Plant Adaptations from StudyJam
For plants to live and grow in certain environments, they must adapt to their surroundings to get their basic needs met and ward off predators. This cartoon animated video from StudyJam explains various plant adaptations.
How Rainforests Work
Rainforests are important because of their biological diversity, oxygen production, and vital role in world ecology. This two minute interview type of video explains the three most important things about rainforests. Don't let the opening spoil the value of this video for class use. A good overview, without much depth.
Three Types of Volcanoes
A student centered 1:30 video that shows the three types of volcanoes and student made examples of these is shown.
British Royal Family
The British Royal Family, the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, originally the House of Wettin, have reigned over the UK and Commonwealth monarchies from the time of King Edward VII. This six-minute video will warrant a history lesson for many as some of the faces may be unknown. There are several images of a younger Queen Elizabeth (around 2:50 in this presentation). This is essentially a slide show--there is no narration, however, there is music.
How to Deal With Tantrums
The three minute video explains the two types of tantrums and suggests ways to deal with them. Many examples are given and the important aspects of giving an audience to a tantrum be avoided.
RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
This ten minute video reviews what really motivates people and what does not help. The results are of note to teachers and others at it shows that higher grades may not be motivating when creative thinking is being encouraged. Mastery is motivated by tangible things in some instance
Get to Know Your Personal Computer
Get to Know Your Personal Computer - Computers have no boundaries and no distance is too far for them to gap. This video teaches you about the characteristics of your computer. (03:25)
Save Endangered Animals A to Z
Photos of endangered animals around the world presented in alphabetical order. This 2:25 long video does not teach about the animals, but does present students with an idea of the variety of tremendous numbers that are endangered. If they wish to take action such organizations as the Defenders of Wildlife have free materials
http://www.defenders.org/index_v2.html
First Aid & Safety Tips : How to Protect Yourself During an Earthquake
To protect yourself in an earthquake, move to an interior wall of a sturdy building, then duck and cover is the purpose of the 1:43 video. It provides good information that should be reviewed by all teachers in areas where earthquakes are a concern.
