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Video Comments – 4

Angie describes below how to upload class video footage from an iPad to YouTube. I include it here to make it easy for people to load up in the comment fields video from their own classes. I publish these current four posts on Video Comments with great hope that this new option from Angie will […]

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Slow vs. Fast

I’ve noticed that the more compelling my input, the faster I can speak to my students with their nearly full understanding. When my input is boring or merely kind of interesting (means it’s not all about them), I find that I have to speak more slowly.

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SSR Detail

I used to do FVR with the children’s books. It really didn’t work. The books had lots of really complex language in them that only native speaker kids could understand, and my students mainly just looked at the picture. So then I started doing SSR with the same text. Then after the 10′ SSR period

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Reading Point

Since it is now all about my mental health, let’s say I didn’t get a story written up for projection, like the recent story I projected as a video clip about Candy the Corn. In the past I would have busted my behind to have the story ready for the class to read when they

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Reading Idea

Just sharing that the stories are rocking the house so strongly now that I have decided to curtail the  the readings. That represents a shift in my long-accepted Denver Public Schools position that CI classes be 50% stories and 50% reading. This is true for the lower levels: more stories, up to 80% stories and

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Video Comments – 3

Video Comments are a new and very useful and easy way to get into each others’ classrooms in a virtual way. Angie videotaped her class.  Sent it to YouTube in under a minute. No computer involved. Just an iPad.  No effort so far. Then cut and pasted the link here.  Alisa clicked on it.  No

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Video Comments – 2

What I mean by a Video Comment is that we use the comment fields as places to post 15 min. or less videos. The idea is this: 1. We film a class. Watch the students act like it’s an observation and do their best listening. 2. We tell the videographer to stop it anywhere from

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Video Comments – 1

We need to see if the potential here might possibly happen. It could change how we use this blog. Angie said: …I was able to upload straight from the iPad to You Tube…. I replied: Angie so if I videotape a class and my videographer in each class films the class in segments less than

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