Session 5

A best practice that I use in my classroom last year was media clips from United Streaming. At one of our training days our Curriculum Specialists showed us the technology resources that we had available at our site. I thought United Streaming was a great way to give the students a visual of the topic they were learning about. Having a lot of English Language Learners in our school we need to find different ways of presenting the material to ensure the students have a solid understanding of the material being taught.

United Streaming is a website that has media clips on various topics that can be downloaded and shown to the class on on LCD projector. The school needs to have a licensed in order to access the bank of media clips. With United Streaming search bank you can search by subject, state standards, grade, or keywords. It is a great site to integrate technology into the core curriculum.

Everyone may not be using this best practice for different reasons. Some teachers may not know how to download and burn media to Cd's or the may not be familiar with the LCD projector so they are unable to show it to the class. Also the use of video in the classroom may not meet the needs of their students.


Activity Log:

This week I listen to the topic podcast. I am putting the finishing touches on my project 1.