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5th Graders Discover You Don't Have Be In California to Go to Hollywood

Students Acting Out A Scene from Island of the Blue Dolphins
Lights, camera, action!

No. These are not words from a Hollywood set. Instead these are the words of 5th graders from Ms. Snoke and Schulman’s class at PS 4 in Washington Heights, New York. You'd never know by looking at this classroom full of highly-engaged students that not long ago, inspiring motivation to learn was an issue.


In the classroom today, the students who recently finished reading Island of the Blue Dolphins, were motivated and fully engaged as they dispersed into various parts of the room acting out the scenes from the script they had written days earlier. 

Students reviewing their performance
Prior to their performances this day, the class spent time watching videos of other students performing scenes from books then discussed what went well and what could be improved. As a result they were well-equipped to transfer this knowledge to their own work. After students filmed their scenes they huddled around their flip video camera to discuss what worked and what needed improvement. For instance one student said, "You should use your spear like you are really spearing a fish." Another demonstrated how to make larger hand gestures.  After self reflection and feedback from the rest of the group, after each take they jumped right back into the work of revising their script and re-taking the scene.

In essence these students were engaged in the editing, revision stages of the writing process. As a former literacy coach, teachers often lamented that to motivate their students to engage in. Furthermore, traditionally, edits and revisions were often made after teacher-directed feedback. These fifth grade students completely owned the learning and were self-directed and motivated to edit, revise, their work following reflective analysis and peer review.

The teachers explained it this way.  
Often when a student writes, it’s not clear when something doesn’t sound right.  When the students act out their writing, it immediately becomes clear when something doesn’t sound right and they jump back to their scripts to revise.  Additionally, when students get out of their seats and act out the scenes from the book they read, the words and concepts that they may not have understood well, really come to life.  I’m convinced that when I measure comprehension, I will find that students understood this story better than the others they have read.

Their advice to other teachers who may be interested in doing this type of work with their students is this. Don’t worry about students producing perfect videos.  In the end, the reality is that the learning is in the process of making the videos, not the final product. 

When I spoke to the students and asked them if they enjoyed studying a book this way. Every student agree they preferred learning this way over the traditional reading of a story then responding in their notebooks.  As a dug a little deeper to find out why, one student summed it up well.
“We like making videos because now our work won't be trapped in a notebook.  It will be published on SchoolTube for other students around the world to learn from.”
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Create Video Playlists to Enrich Learning with Embedr.com

Innovative educators know that for many video has edged ahead of other platforms as the number 1 tool.or learning, creating, and showing evidence of learning. Want to know how to do something? Simply go to Google and do a video search. You'll instantly have a plethora of videos showing you how to do that "thing" and in most cases you'll even have the ability to write to the video's author. Or, you can make a video asking people how to do a thing, like this student does here.

Many educators have even finally succeeded in getting video sites unblocked in their schools, bringing to the attention of those who were blocking that doing so was depriving students from meaningful learning opportunities.

As an educator fortunate to work in an environment where YouTube and other video sites are not blocked, I was trying to find an easy way to share videos relating to a particular topic, a playlist of videos if you will. In this case I was compiling this list of videos because I wanted to share with teachers some ways their students might make video projects for a class I was creating called “Flip My Class.” Some other reasons I might want to create such a playlist include because I want to:
  1. Create a collection of videos to support a particular unit of study
  2. Create a collection of videos for professional development where I wanted to share samples of videos on a topic created by other students.
  3. Have students put a collection of videos together about a topic they are studying.
  4. Have teachers put together a collection of videos to share with parents.
  5. Put your favorite music videos in one place.

While there are a number of less-than-elegant ways to put such a collection together i.e. A bunch of videos on a blog post or website or wiki page that the viewer has to scroll through, not only is that not visually appealing, it is also not the easiest of methods if I wanted to encourage others to contribute to the playlist.

So, I turned to my personal learning network and thanks to the below tweet by bjackermann found Embedr.

 bjackermann @InnovativeEdu Is this what you mean?? http://embedr.com/ Create video playlists & embed them anywhere

Embedr was everything I had hoped for. A terrific, elegant, and simple way to share a video playlist and a tool to which others could easily contribute. I wanted to create a way for teachers in an upcoming class to create videos and store them on one playlist regardless of their preferred video upload site. I also wanted to put a sample collection of videos together to use during the professional development to inspire them. I was able to collect the videos in Embedr and here’s how they look.



I was also wondering what kind of collections @bjackmann had so I asked her. Here’s what she tweeted:bjackermann @InnovativeEdu Here's one that I use for inservice for teachers - Web 2.0 Videos Playlist http://embedr.com/playlist/web-2-0_6

Wow. A terrific playlist to inspire participants prior to innovative PD. Here’s what it looks like:


Embedr.com has great potential and I’m excited to begin incorporating it into my professional development. How might you use this tool?
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Flip Your Instruction with Flip Video Cameras

You can begin creating a 21st century learning environment today with one of the easiest and least expensive to use technologies out there. A Flip Video. This $150 investment can go a long way in helping digital native students create using the technology they love with a tool that’s easy on the wallet and has virtually no learning curve...especially in the hands of students.

So, how might you Flip Your Instruction? Here are some learning ideas, teaching ideas, and resources and samples to inspire you.
    • Learning Ideas
      • How To Book -> How To Video
      • About Me Book -> About Me Video
      • My neighborhood report -> My neighborhood video
      • Book report -> book trailer
      • Tell your family’s stories (Flip Your Homework by bringing a Flip home)
      • PSA or Advertisement
      • What is your B Side (Personal narrative of the you people may not know)

    • Teaching Ideas
      • Students can create video tips for becoming better readers or writers. Teachers can create the first few sample videos.
      • Students can create video tips for ways their parents can support them with their reading or writing.
      • Students create videos with questions about reading or writing to be answered by others. Students or global community.
If you are ready to flip your instruction, it is important that from the beginning, you Don’t Forget Your Audience! 5 Ideas To Connect with Real Audiences. Remember it’s important to help students discover places their work might be published to an authentic audience and also exposes them to examples of other student work. can begin creating a 21st century learningenvironment t
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