Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Going to try this idea tomorrow

As a result of an oz teachers post that mentioned a really cool little video on Youtube called Free Hugs, I decided that I would try to use the video as a way to have students think some more about the way the internet and Web 2.0 is changing the world-or is it?
So what I have done is downloaded the videos using a great little add on in Firefox called FLV download which enables the videos to be loaded onto my computer. (Youtube is blocked at school so I can't make a direct link) and then I'm going to use Sandy Thom's song, "I wish I was a punk rocker" to get them to think about the different ways that one person might change the world. I bought it the other day on Itunes so hopefully I'm fine with using it.
The question is Can one person change the world?
For these students I have been using a blog - Wedderburn 7/8 Blog to write up my lessons and here's the post. I find it's a good way to keep a record for myself and also hopefully gives kids a chance to think a little more about what they have to do.
I think the addition of music will also help. We generally have music going in the classroom when we are working anyway although I'm guessing some will love and others will hate the Punk Rocker song. I think I'll try to find the lyrics to the song as well as that will add another level of understanding.
will report back tomorrow on how it went.

3 comments:

Michael C said...

Hi Anne,

Great idea, and you can get "I wish I was a punk rocker" from You Tube using flv player also! It's a cool clip!

Cheers,
Michael

Anne said...

cool Michael, I wish I'd known that last night I would have downloaded it for this morning.
a little late now but can you send me the url as this lesson may take a couple of periods so i could do it next week.

Michael C said...

No worries Anne ... check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gY7UMtrTkg

Hope that helps! :)