Video Maker

I am so excited to be the Student Council sponsor at my new campus!  We have televised morning announcements, giving me the chance to advertise for the club in a new way: through video!  I had no idea how I was going to create an ad, and spent hours on youtube trying to steal someone elses work without any luck.

Fortunately, I stumbled upon Animoto, a FREE video creating site.  And when I say it was simple, I am not kidding.  I made two 30 second videos in about twenty minutes.  They already have slideshow templates to choose from and a huge library with music.  You just type in what you want it to say and it does the work! 

I don't think I will win any advertising awards, but they turned out pretty darn good:







I love this site so much, I am going to have to find ways to add it to my lessons, either by the students creating something or during instruction!

~Mrs. Scott

Youtube Converter

I recently discovered that my new campus has youtube blocked during school hours. I show videos with my lessons almost every day and sometimes teachertube just doesn't have what I need.

After searching the internet for hours yesterday to figure out how to download videos (youtube doesn't allow you to), I stumbled upon a website that will convert youtube clips to mp4's that you can save to your computer to show later. All you do is paste the url and hit convert! No account registration or cost!

Click here for the link

Character Movie Clips

We are teaching Cornell Notes at school this week and a coworker shared her plans for modeling the structure of the notes using movie clips on a site I'd never heard of. WingClips is an amazing (and free!) website with movie clips that "illustrate and inspire." There are hundreds of categories/themes on their page with snippets from movies that demonstrate the characteristic listed. The movies are current, relevant, and SAFE!

One of the vocabulary words my students learned today was camaraderie, and I was able to teach it showing clips from Forrest Gump and Coach Carter:



If the website is blocked at your campus, they also have a downloading feature, so you can save the clip at home to show in class. And as you can see there is also the capability to embed the video (great for powerpoints)!

~Mrs. Scott

Teaching with Rap Music

I don't know about y'all, but the junior high I teach at is full kids that know the words to every rap song written. They LOVE when we play music in class, and the songs stick b/c you can hear them humming the tunes during tests. My 'neighbor' found a couple of youtube videos she told our hallway about on Friday. I already warned her I would be stealing them for the blog! I found a few others while browsing that are fabulous! I love technology!! (And creative teachers who share their goods on the internet!)

Teach Me How to Study:


Getting Triggy Wit It:


Teach Me How to Factor:


All I Do is Learn:


Scientific Method Rap:


Rock Cycle Rap: (LOVE this one!)


Layers of the Earth Rap:


Phases of the Moon Rap:


Layers of the Atomsphere Rap:


Genetics Rap:


Chemistry Rap:


~Mrs. Scott

Educational Youtube Videos

I was in a fabulous Social Studies classroom this week and the teacher showed a youtube video by songs of higher learning. I looked them up on found they have a couple of catchy songs to help remember concepts.

Social Studies:
Continents and Oceans:


44 Presidents:


Science:
Skeletal System:


Phases of the Moon:


Comets and Asteroids:


The Earth:


Math:
Dividing Fractions:


~Mrs. Scott