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Using Video's to Enhance Your Classroom

1-You, as the educator and create a video of your students conducting and performing lab experiments and exhibiting laboratory safty to use as demonstration, instead of you just lecturing about it.

2-Have your students create and post a video of a physical research project that they have conducted on environmental issues and PPM.

3- Have your students create and instructional video to educate each other on a concept, law or theory.

4- You, as the educator, can let your students choose to do their Lab Journal writing as a video journal which you can view to check their progress and understanding or to do it the traditional written way.

Common Origin on Prezi

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Tips for Prezi Creation!!

(1)If you are going to just import a PPT like I did, you need to make it simple, but getting rid of all the motions that occur in it and even maybe simplify the color patterns and stuff. This will just help it down load easier.

(2) You can just use the original slide, but Prezi allows you to add caption, extra visuals and ever zoom is past the slide for the fine print, I would suggest you add some that extra stuff in so that if isn't just a moving PPT

(3)I would suggest using the short tutorial they offer in the beginning, I was stubborn and refused to use it at first,but then I caved in and it was really helpful and I was much more efficient at creating my Prezi.

(4) I would recommend using all the fun tools such as creating fun and interesting paths...but sometimes it is just best to move from one slide to the next with out too much twisting and turning, because it could make your audience a bit motion sick. This can probably be avoided how ever by going through the slides at a very slow pace!

Creating a Photo Story

Tips on Creating an Instructional Video

Tip #1- I experienced some problems because I recorded with a device that puts out video formatted in MOV and the programs on my computer could read that format so I had to go through a long process of converting all the video clips to WMV, so moral of the story is to create a video that will come out in the format that your computer programs can read.

Tip #2- Using Windows Movie Maker, if you have video that is segmented, before you worry about cutting and how to put them together,just put them all in to one project and then use the splitting tool to cut out the parts you don't want. This requires pretty good timing on your part, but it is doable.

Tip #3- The use of transitions between segments is great, as I watch my video now though, I think that I used too many transitions where they weren't necessarily needed and it feels a bit cluttered, so just beware of that.

Tip #4- When saving it, don't just push the save button, on my computer the automatic save button saved my movie as a random WSMMV or something like that, and I had to go through another conversion process to get in into WMV.

Common Origin PPT

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Tips for Using the Powerpoint

NUMBER ONE: I notice a lot of people use it as an information regurgitation, but that really isn't the purpose of them. I put a lot of open info on one slide, and on the original I scheduled them to come in at different times, so that we could learn and discuss one slide at a time. The whole PPT could take more than one day, and that would be just fine!

NUMBER TWO: We learned in one of our classes to make PPT's interactive, but having the class move back and forth from working, solving problems that you can include on the screen to looking and the info presented and taking notes. That way you are changing up the view to keep the students attention.

NUMBER THREE: Make it catchy to the eye, but not overwhelming, where it becomes a distraction to you or the students.

NUMBER FOUR: Adding video into your PPT isn't a bad idea either. That just helps give it some diversity from looking at a still fame screen to watching something that incorporates music and video!

Fitness for Life

Life time fitness

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Answer Key

1- Answers will vary.
2- A. Sleep schedule, bedtime habits, and day–to–day lifestyle choices.
B. Me 18 (+) years: 7.5-9 hours. My niece 3 – 5 years: 11-13 hours of sleep
C. Answers will vary.
D. See attached sleep diary. It should be filled out for one weeks time and include all details.
3- A. A sense of contentment. A zest for living and the ability to laugh and have fun. The ability to deal with stress and bounce back from adversity. A sense of meaning and purpose, in both their activities and their relationships. The flexibility to learn new things and adapt to change. A balance between work and play, rest and activity, etc. The ability to build and maintain fulfilling relationships. Self-confidence and high self-esteem.
B. Do things that positively impact others. Learn or discover new things. Practice self-discipline. Enjoy the beauty of nature or art. Appeal to your senses. Engage in meaningful, creative work. Get a pet. Make leisure time a priority. Make time for contemplation and appreciation.
4- A. Answers will vary, but must include a list of activities, the length of time, and the calories burned. Also must include the total amount of calories burned in that day.
B. Answers will vary from staying after a party and helping clean up, then going to a sporting event sitting in a spot where you will have to climb to get in and out, where appropriate walk to school and other school activities instead of drive, etc.
5- Answers will vary. Answers can include activities such as jump roping, hiking, mountain biking, brisk walk, swimming laps, etc.
6- Answers will vary. Answers must include the name and address of a sports center nearest you. They also need to include a list of an activity or sport that this facility offers that interests the student and the time it takes place and how much it will cost.
7- A. Answers will vary. Answers can include: getting in shape, having fun, making friends, learning to cooperate with other people and learning respect for other people, learning fair play and good sportsmanship, learning to share in achievements, improving confidence and self esteem and improving problem-solving skills.
B. Answers will vary. Answers must include the name of a sport and a 3-5 sentence description of what the sport is and at least 2 fun facts about that sport.
8- Answers will vary. Answer must include the name of and a very basic but detailed description of one individual sport.
9- A. Answers will vary. Answers must include the name of 3-5 extreme sports and references of the resources used to gain a greater knowledge of those sports.
B. Extreme sports became popular in 20th century and according to the author of this article they became popular because life became to safe, lacking the feeling of danger, so there were those people that started seeking that feeling out through extreme sports. Answers will vary. Answer should include a rough draft/template of a health and fitness log and a motivational introduction to get someone started on a fitness for life lifestyle

TIPS on How to Create a Webquest

1- Creating a webquest can seem overwhelming at first, at least it did to me, but you can avoid this by creating a simple outline of the main points that you would like to have the students explore through doing this project.

2-Next I set up 2 word documents; one to record the answers and the other to complete the webquest with the links and the questions to be answered for the links.

3-Following your outline start researching and finding websites that have information that pertains to the subjects you were trying to teach. Then just read through the website and become familiar with it.

4- As you read through look for applicable or relevant information and create and question that the students can look for as they read. As you do this record the answer that you would expect from them reading the article.

5- You can add graphics, quotations, more information or anything else that might enhance the learning experience for the students.

What are Some Ways to Use a Blog in a Chemistry Classroom...?

1. 1- As a teacher you can post homework assignments so the parents of the students can keep up and the students who were absent for any reason can also keep up on the assignments.
2. If the home work assignments just asks for something simple, such as key points of a chapter, a brief description or rough draft on an element or a paragraph on how two elements would react then student the student could just leave a comment under the blog post to save paper and the teacher could keep things more organized.
3. You could create a blog just for the parents of the students in your class. They could post questions, comments, concerns.
4. You could have a blog between science teachers in a district where you could share teaching ideas and activities for everyone to feed off of.
5. The students could get into groups and have a certain topic to research and they could create a blog and post the findings as they research it on this blog so you, the teacher, could track their progress.
   

All of these ways could be very beneficial in keeping things organized , for communication with parents and students and just making you classroom more public and open.

The recipe calls for: 1 c flour, 1 t salt and all other ingredients... in "moderation"...

Many of us, including myself, in reference to the use of technology, have used the phrase..."as long as we use it in moderation", or "I think it is ok if used in moderation". Now, my question is, what is moderation? How do you measure that? Is 'moderation' the same measurement or quantity in all classroom settings? How does 'moderate' use for a teacher differ from 'moderate' use for students in the classroom and on homework assignments? And the why's. My opinion as to what 'moderation' might look like is this: Moderation in using technology is comparable to the moderation in use of something like field trips...you can use it in the course when you are relating how technology and your subject fit together, or when you want to show your students the applications of your subject field in the technological field in order to broaden their insight as to what kind of jobs, careers, and options there out there for that subject field. Now like we learned in Shamby's class if we have a student with a special need that can be met by using some form of technology than that would force me to redefine what I felt 'moderation' was and why. What do you think? What is your opinion of "technology in moderation"?