All Videos Tagged culture (Classroom 2.0) - Classroom 2.0

A Celebration of Learning and Culture

2010-06-11T20:14:58.991Z

Together with our friends at Sunset Elementary School in Craig, Colorado, USA made a video to show that the world we share has 'ONE HEART'!

How Far We've Come

2010-04-25T19:09:20.769Z

This is a teacher-made sample or guide project for a class assignment. Students created their own video interpretation of the "How Far We've Come" music video by Matchbox Twenty. Click link below to view their videos...

http://www.edmestoncentralschool.net/uploads/jchase/musicvideo.htm

"Come Sail Away" a tribute to the 70's

2010-04-10T20:00:47.548Z

I recently completed this sample "Decade" project for my classes to serve as guide and chose the 1970's for my tribute video as I was roughly the same age as my students were during the 2000's.

Student teams have finished their projects. Each team had to select a popular song from the 2000's and create a tribute video to the decade. Check link below to view projects...

http://www.edmestoncentralschool.net/uploads/jchase/musicvideoto.htm

Inside a Classroom at Guiyang Experimental High School #3

2008-12-27T18:28:51.954Z

The teacher was very enthusiastic and engaging, and the students giggled in response to what she shared. One student stood to share what he’d written in his workbook, but it was predominately teacher directed. I respected her command of the class. Some of the students had a few trinkets or stuffed animals. I wonder if some of the stuffed animals were from home, as most of the students stay at dormitories from Monday – Friday.

There were 54 students in the class. The kids themselves were just kids. Some were shy. They giggled. Some wanted their pictures taken; others looked away. They wore Nike’s, Converse, and regular tennis shoes like those that we’d see in the states. They did wear uniforms and matching coats, but it looks like the students were wearing their own sweaters underneath. Three layers, at least, to stay warm in the very cold rooms.

Overall, the classroom represented conformity and structure. The teacher directed the lesson, and I didn’t see any independent thought. There was little student interaction, and no small group discussion.

Class Begins at Guiyang Experimental High School #3

2008-12-27T18:26:59.299Z

This is video from a Chinese class. It was fascinating. The teacher was on a stage at the front of the room, in an official looking coat. The students sat close to one another in rigid rows, in their matching uniforms. All of the students, 100% , were actively engaged in the lesson, which was completely teacher directed. I did not see one student daydreaming. The closest thing to being off task was one little girl who was twirling her pen while she watched and listened to the teacher. There was very little student involvement beyond choral recitation. The class started with the bell, which was a musical melody rather than a bell. Students stood and recited a greeting to their teacher in unison to commence the class. She responded to their group chant. The teacher played music as part of the lesson, and projected a PowerPoint to the music on the screen. The PowerPoint had lots of moving graphics with some text, but not the text-filled slides that I see so often in my experiences. The PowerPoint was not connected to the Internet and I couldn’t tell if it was available in the room. I believe that this music and PowerPoint was part of a story that matched their workbooks. Students followed along in their books, as she taught and wrote on the chalkboard. There was an unused SmartBoard in the classroom, pushed to the side of the class. The classroom had a speaker sound system.