Teach With Video

Paperless Day

Steven Katz — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:57:50 +0000

For several years now at my school we have celebrated an annual event called “Peace Day.” The idea of this event, started by Jeremy Gilley, is to have one day of the year with no fighting, no war, just peace. This has been a powerful event at school year after year, and the idea of one day of peace, hopefully moving toward many more days of peace, made me think that this is a good model for making other changes that will better society.

I decided to apply the same idea to a “paperless” day at school. The idea was to do something that has a positive ecological impact while promoting the technology integration push at my school. I proposed to the high school student government that our school be paperless on Earth Day (April 22), and it was enthusiastically adopted by the students.

After speaking to a few people at school about going paperless I decided to try to make a greater impact with this idea. I started tweeting about it and was getting a very positive response. I made contact with Shelly Blake-Plock, the leader in paperless education, and shortly thereafter he had a post on his Teach Paperless blog about the idea. He also created a place where teachers can pledge to go paperless for Earth Day. Take a look at the list, which has over 650 teachers from all over the world pledging to go paperless.

I also started a Google Doc and wiki page for sharing ideas on alternatives to using paper.

Consider taking the pledge, and think about this first paperless day as one step toward finding alternatives for paper in your class, and improving instruction with the use of technology.

Florida Educational Technology Conference Presentation Links

Steven Katz — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:10:50 +0000

FETC 2010

Teach With Video: Student-Created Digital Video Projects in Your Class

Session Outline:

TeachWithVideo-FETC10

My students’ videos and some sample handouts:

http://teachwithvideo.com/samples.html

My YouTube Channel

The Country Day School in Costa Rica

CDS News:

All episodes 2006-2010

About my book: Teach With Video

stevenkatz.com

See my presentation here! Thanks for posting it Jerry Swiatek.

Teach With Video Podcast 018

Steven Katz — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:55:43 +0000

Microphones. Choosing the right mic for your needs.

FETC 2010

Links to mics on amazon.com:

Short microphone articles:

Subscribe in iTunes (or leave a review)

15 Gadgets That Changed Everything This Decade

Steven Katz — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:50:32 +0000

Blogs, Wikis, & Nings

Steven Katz — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:29:16 +0000

An introductory workshop for my teachers.

Blogs Wikis Nings

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Edublog Awards Nominations

Steven Katz — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:02:00 +0000

My Nominations for The 2009 Edublog Awards are:

Best individual blog: Kim Cofino
Best class blog: Rumford Writers
Best individual tweeter: Tom Whitby
Most influential tweet / series of tweets / tweet based discussion: Stephen Anderson
Best educational use of audio: Tech Chicks Podcast
Best educational use of video / visual: CDS News
Best educational wiki: CDSPD
Best educational use of a social networking service: http://countrydayschool.ning.com/

If you would like to nominate, instructions for nominating are here.

21st Century Pygmalion – Beowulf Prezis

Steven Katz — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:52:17 +0000

This post is the 4th in the 21CP series.

Dr. Lynch wanted the students to do a presentation on different aspects of Beowulf, comparing the story to the history and culture at that time. Each group had a different topic that required historical research and references from the epic. We discussed possibilities for a project and decided on Prezi. We came up with this rubric. Below is the list of presentations and links to them:

Tribal & Social Customs

Battles

History

Weapons & Military Strategy

Materialism

Political Culture

Battles