Video Reflection Week #2

I absolutely love the Mr. Duey video. I will never forget when my 6th grade english teacher said: "How come you all can memorize all these rap songs, but can't memorize your prepositions?!" It is so much easier, for me at least, to memorize things when they have a tune with them. When I was a senior in high school I had to memorize the preamble. I tried so many ways of memorizing it, but only one was successful. I went to youtube and found this gem:

I still know the preamble today--because of this song.

I feel like the Mr. Duey video would be a fun way to present fractions to a math class. It is something different and it is hilarious. Even if the student did not memorize the tune they would still at least be entertained. In my future classroom I think that I will use a lot of videos. I think it will be nice for my students to learn from someone else sometimes instead of just hearing from me everyday. I will most definitely be using this video in one of my lessons:

It's a great song.. of course and it gives a picture to everything that is presented in the song. Maybe I will have my students pick one thing from the song and tell me what the significance of that person/event is concerning history. (Maybe they'll even be able to use google tools and do a powerpoint presentation and show it to the classroom).

First of all, the music on the Introducing Web 2.0 is awesome--really keeps you on the edge of your seat. A lot of the information that the video presented I already know about. However, I did not know about all of the sites that were in the video. I think it is an important video because it shows what kind of world we live in now--a technological world. Of course with technology comes pros and cons, but I truly believe that the good things outweigh the bad things. Future students have so much information available to them with the click of a button. Research papers have become so much easier to write, projects have become so much easier to do, all because the information is available on the internet.