#6-Teach 1000/We Can Do This

You just don’t have to Kill Trees to get your point across.

Teach 1000

Here is a guy who plans to teach 1000 Online Classes in a year. This site and challenge shows what can actually be done if one has the inclination to get involved and actually do something instead of just talk about it.

What are the possibilities for the University if teachers had this kind of commitment to teaching students? The possibilities are endless and the opportunity for student progress is staggering. We all need to stagger every once in a while. This guy is teaching without killing trees and he should get a Gold Star for Professional Development. We all know how valuable those Gold Stars will be come Vacation Time.

Teach 1000

http://www.teach1000.blogspot.com/

A little bit of his blog page.

Teach 1000 online classes in one year!

The rules:

1) I must have at least 1 student in every class that I do.

2) All classes must be either on EduFire, WiZiQ, or any other online platform.

3) Each class must be at least 30 minutes long.

4) I cannot have the same student for more than 5 classes in a row.

5) Each class must be on a different topic, but can be in the same subject. For example, I can teach a world history course, but I have to have a different topic in each lesson.

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We Can Do This!

This about a site called Ask Mister Duncan and it’s on Youtube.com

http://www.youtube.com/user/askmisterduncan

He’s a pretty strange person and someone you would not let your sister marry if you loved her. But, his channel on YouTube is pretty entertaining and it’s something the students would enjoy.

Here is the link to a sample lesson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hde_uXOrdsE&feature=related

He also has another YouTube channel called Duncan in China. Again, lots of strange stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/user/duncaninchina

Could the teachers, etc. from the University do this? Sure they could. It would take a team of people dedicated people putting the channel together just for the crack of it. It’s a great learning experience and it doesn’t need a committee or any other format to water down and gain control of the creative process. It’s a matter of getting it to a format or platform that the students use or would use if the opportunity presented itself.

As you can see from Teachergary.com there are many formats, platforms and ways to use videos to educate the students. It’s up to us to take advantage of the technology and find ways to get information to the students without overburdening them with mounds of photocopies so we don’t have to actually teach and/or relate to them while in the classroom.

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