About a week or so ago, I found an interesting video out there on the internet and uploaded it to my YouTube channel in hopes of giving it a bit more exposure. It was a video of…..get this….a cowboy, living out on the “wild wild web”, trying to explain to teachers how to help setup a Facebook Page so they could connect with students in a familiar setting without having to “befriend them” on the social...

This video is a long time in production, and certainly wasn’t posted in time for the excellent Google sponsored Demo Slam competition, but I like to follow through on my projects, whether they’re on time or not. As an aside, being the first person in a school district to make the leap to start publishing via YouTube is a HUGE anxiety-creating monster, especially when you’re the one setting the example for the teaching...

I’m not sure why I can’t stop watching this video, because it’s “delivering” scientific content in probably one of the most ineffectual teaching modalities in today’s classroom, direct instruction. Besides just being a euphemism for “lecturing”, direct instruction has been on the decline in several classrooms due to the always-connected, media rich learning environments that students today...

This is an incredible video. Any music or video production teachers that could figure this video out and be able to inspire and/or help their students create something half as awesome would earn “Teacher of the Year” from me every year. At the very least, having the students watch this video and giving them extra credit for being able to “figure” out how it was done (as encouraged by MysterGuitarMan at the end of...

I just wasted 45 minutes of my life watching the highlights of YouTube Live, an event that took place last Saturday (apparently I was hiding under a rock for several weeks and missed the announcements). Most of it is NSFW, so please don’t watch if you happen to be at school on Wednesday. Instead, go home, relax after the long hard day of kids flying around the school high on pre-Thanksgiving break adrenaline, and Charlie the Unicorn,...

Every Friday I like to share an interesting thought, discussion, or resource from the forum here on the site. There are lots of fantastic ideas out there, and most of them aren’t mine, so it’s a nice way to broaden the discussion and include many voices. Today’s thought comes from AndyAK, our Alaskan commentator, about the “Terms of Use” that many of us 99.9% of us usually just scroll through, skipping all of...