YouTube for Memories

Although I don't necessarily agree with the decision YouTube is blocked at school for teachers. I understand blocking it for students but I question blocking it for teachers and yes, admin. too.

Yes, YouTube sure is waste of bandwidth and storage on those YouTube servers but there are some occasional Gems out there. Although it doesn't really fit with the 3-5 curriculum I could see a MS teacher using some of the videos posted by the user Nostalgic TV.

If I were teaching a unit on the depression I would be sure to show at little a few of the Little Rascals videos posted on YouTube. Not only do they bring back some childhood memories of my own they also give a student a peek into American culture from the 30s and 40s.

Here is a link to an education related one....called Bored of Education.

Enjoy as long as you are at home and while you are at YouTube see if you can find other videos that might fit your curriculum.

Viral Videos

Viral videos are the ones that the kids at school talk about. Many of them are silly and some of them are actually quite funny or clever. I came upon this one that I thought would be good to share since we offer Spanish classes to all of our students. This is the "One Semester of Spanish Love Song". If you took Spanish in either HS or College and haven't used it much since then...you will be able to understand at least some of the lines.

The Mom Song to William Tell

I work with lots of moms and figured everyone could relate to this one since we are either a mom, a dad, had a mom, and works with lots of little people that have moms. Comedienne Anita Renfroe. This one is also from YouTube so you will need to see at home...even though there is absolutely wrong with this video.
Enjoy!

Office 2007

Not sure if you noticed yet...but over the summer the district upgraded to Office 2007. I hope you will spend part of this week trying it out and see how the interface has changed. In your packet are some simple cheatsheets on the program. It has some new features and unfortunately a whole new user interface. Perhaps after using Office 2007 you will be able to relate to this video.