Strictly pedagogical

Have you seen an RSA Animate video? Are you interested in learning how to make one or better yet, have your students make one? This post provides an in-depth look at how to go about have your students create an animated video that provides them with the opportunity to  practice 21st century skills (quoted from post below):

* collaborate with one another

* synthesize ideas

* create content

* communicate ideas clearly

* use technology

This activity is designed to have your students create content, providing you with materials to use in future classes as well as helping your current students understand the materiial.

The author, Jordan Collier, provides a detailed five-day plan. Day 1 would have you dividing students into groups of three, assign them a section of a chapter in a textbook, and determine the key facts that need to be taught. To read about how to assist them with this and the tasks for Day 2 - 5 click through to the post.

Great one

Collaboration is the key for future society development

Here is a new tool (at least to me) that allows you to create online content. In fact, you can get an educator account and have students also create content (but make sure to have permission from parents for students under the age of 13).

You can get an educator account or your school may want to sign-up. School wide features include:

• Lesson tracking (allowing you to see students progress)
• Lesson sharing and collaboration
• Common Core, NextGen Science and custom standards – helping you align lessons

You can easily

• Add, insert and delete resources from the web
• Group resources, lessons and organize your students
• Add questions to videos

Take a few minutes to click through to the website and check it out. You may find yourself creating a new lesson!