What's Popular This Week On The Innovative Educator

Here’s the roundup of what's been popular on The Innovative Educator blog this week. Below you’ll see my top weekly posts along with the number of pageviews in the past 7 days. I hope there's something that looks of interest to you.  If it does, check it out. If you’re inspired, leave a comment.

Five Things Students Want Their Teachers to Know a... Nov 15, 2011, 4 comments 2,707 Pageviews

Mom's Story: When School Left My Child Behind...H... Nov 22, 2011, 12 comments 2,112 Pageviews

Respond to the Naysayers with these Answers to FAQ... Nov 21, 2011, 2 comments 1906 Pageviews

Video Games for Learning? Why Not? Nov 20, 2011, 4 comments 1789 Pageviews

Is Your School Preparing Learners for Success? 5 Q... Nov 23, 2011, 2 comments 1607 Pageviews

10 Reasons Cell Phones Should Be Allowed In School... Aug 24, 2010, 17 comments 1374 Pageviews

The Ten No Nos of Teaching with a Projector or Int... May 10, 2010, 37 comments 1187 Pageviews

Cure ADHD without Drugs with These Resources from ... Feb 5, 2011, 21 comments 893 Pageviews

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Capture Skype Conversations for Anytime / Anywhere Listening and Viewing

As I’ve shared here and here, Skype is a great way to enable students across the world to converse and interact with others who share their passion, talents, and interests. With the popularity of learning techniques liked the flipped classroom and passion-driven learning, teachers and their students might be interested in capturing these conversations.  SuperTintin is a fully-featured audio and video recording software which allows Skype users to record their online conversations. These recorded conversations can be used for review purposes in the classroom, to share with others in the school or the students’ parents and/or for any other reason which the teacher and students see potential.

Here a couple valuable features of SuperTintin for recording Skype calls that might be difficult to accomplish using other means.  

• Picture-in-Picture: Record video in Picture-in-Picture, Side-by-Side, Remote-Only, or Local-Only mode! And you can also record local and remote video as two separate files.
• Saving. Supertintin lets you easily save your conversations to your computer's hard drive or a portable USB drive, allowing you to re-watch your conversations as easily as watching your favorite DVD.
• Skype group video conference up to 10 ways!

For students and teachers that enhance their learning with Skype, recording those conversations is a great way to remember and reinforce any lessons learned. Additionally, recording conversations make them easy to share with other teachers, the students’ parents or the community at large. SuperTintin provides a simple and easy recording solution so that classrooms can capture, save, and share collaborations on Skype.  SuperTinTin is available here for $29.95.

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Want a Healthier Family This Holiday Season? Consider Homeschooling

As thoughts of turkeys, egg nog, and sugar plums dance in our heads this holiday season, some of us are thinking about best ways to get off to a healthy New Year. Over at Parent at the Helm, Linda Dobson has idea. She points out that although a family’s homeschooling decision almost always begins with academic considerations, there are also health benefits.  She shares 12 terrific health benefits that emerge from the homeschooling lifestyle.

12 Health Benefits of Homeschooling
1. Individual sleep patterns and needs are met.
2. Lots of time to be outdoors.
3. Eat when hungry, drink when thirsty, pee when you gotta.
4. Eat healthier food (and learn to prepare it).
5. Not cooped up in “sick buildings.”
6. Less shared germs  – and lice.
7. Time for play.
8. Less need for medication.
9. Alone time.
10. Time to pursue passions.
11. Less stress.
12. A strong family that knows and loves one another.

To read more about each of these benefits, visit the original post here.

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