The Last One!!

Professional Development - Movie Maker
This was almost as fun as the Flip Cameras. Teachers again filming themselves to show the students how beneficial and fun learning can be.
This time the science teacher I had (only one) had a woman from my department who sometimes is a helping teacher in her class, film her doing an experiment about natural disasters. She wanted to put this video on a PowerPoint presentation with notes and actual videos from the Internet about natural disasters. So we uploaded her video to movie maker and later went through the steps to upload that video and others to the PPT so she wouldn't have to navigate from the PPT to show the kids all of her findings. Very effective! I had kids come in my room talking about tsunamis and earthquakes. Very cool!
The one math teacher that was there talked about having her kids make videos about order of operations to help them remember when to do what. She made one using a digital camera and had someone else record it. She sings her kids a song and she actually sang the song while filming...pretty funny.
All in all the professional development classes went well. Some APs came in to see what we were doing and helped record and act in the videos. The kids will be able to see a different side of them. They said we were supposed to get more computers with the rolling computer lab so hopefully we will soon so more students can use them!