I’m always fascinated when I see these kinds of videos. They are simple but make a very clear point with little or no fancy props or flourish. As a Social Studies teacher and a Computer teacher seeing these videos leaves me wondering if or how I could accomplish something similar with my students.
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It’s that time of year again and my students are just about done creating stop motion videos. Here’s one of the first ones to come in.
It’s a little didactic, but it’s a nice little parable about change. Sometimes it seems to be the thing teachers fear the most. Fr0m more than one teacher in more than one town I’ve heard the refrain “but that’s not the way we’ve always done it!”
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I just checked into my GMail and discovered I now had Google “Buzz.” I’m not yet exactly what it does, but here’s what Google says about it.
Common Craft’s latest video is Cloud Computing in Plain English. Like all their previous video’s, this one is a masterpiece of simplification. They make something complex like cloud computing simple to understand. The only down side to this video is that, unlike many of their previous efforts, it’s not posted on YouTube (and is only on their site) meaning you can’t embed it in one of your own webpages. Even so, it’s quite cool.