Is anyone else as excited about learning to edit videos as I am? While I can think of plenty of ways to use it in the classroom, I'm more interested in it from a personal perspective. I have tons of video that we've taken over the years, none of which has ever been viewed or edited. I realize that the tool we're using isn't that fancy, but just to learn the basics is exciting to me.
I hope everyone has a great break. I won't be able to do much school work over the break, so I'm predicting a little bit of a panic for myself when we all get back.
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Friday, November 19, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
Spelling
I am struggling with the whole spelling thing. From my own personal experience I can see that traditional spelling tests are not helpful to all students. Unless a teacher is paying attention and willing to work individually with students who don't transfer their knowledge of spelling into the wider world, it's wasted time for those kids. All the other kids usually already know how to spell the words on the list anyway.
On the other hand, I subbed in a 5th grade classroom today where very few words at all were spelled correctly. Some of the kids could not even correctly copy words that the student teacher put on the projector for everyone to write down. We're not talking about big, challenging words. We're talking about words like, "social," "studies," "bored," "lunch," and, my personal favorite of the day, "fart." Yes, bodily functions were misspelled right and left in addition to more socially acceptable words.
So what to do? When you get a whole class of children who are so clearly behind in their ability to spell, what's the right course of action? They were all able to write sentences and even some decent-sized paragraphs, so it's not as though they were completely behind in all language arts areas. At what point should their poor spelling be corrected? And what's the best way to do that without stifling creativity? Am I back to traditional spelling tests? Word pattern study? What? I'm not sure I'd feel right as a teacher if I didn't at least help students improve their spelling somewhat.
Any ideas?
On the other hand, I subbed in a 5th grade classroom today where very few words at all were spelled correctly. Some of the kids could not even correctly copy words that the student teacher put on the projector for everyone to write down. We're not talking about big, challenging words. We're talking about words like, "social," "studies," "bored," "lunch," and, my personal favorite of the day, "fart." Yes, bodily functions were misspelled right and left in addition to more socially acceptable words.
So what to do? When you get a whole class of children who are so clearly behind in their ability to spell, what's the right course of action? They were all able to write sentences and even some decent-sized paragraphs, so it's not as though they were completely behind in all language arts areas. At what point should their poor spelling be corrected? And what's the best way to do that without stifling creativity? Am I back to traditional spelling tests? Word pattern study? What? I'm not sure I'd feel right as a teacher if I didn't at least help students improve their spelling somewhat.
Any ideas?
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