Texsox

I don't think there is a way to really help students that do not come prepared.

This is also excellent for students that are absent, for reviewing, or tutoring. And teachers don't really need to produce all the videos. There are already so many great videos available. Other issues it addresses are the "teacher going to fast / too slow. Giving the student access to the pause / rewind / play buttons they can pace themselves.

You always have issues with students not doing homework. If currently 25% of your students are not doing their 20 math problems (for example) each night, will that number increase of decrease when the homework becomes watching a 20 minute video? Most students will gladly trade 25 math problems for a 15-20 minute video. The teacher will check their notes from the video as "proof" that they watched the video. In a science classroom (where this really took off) if the student did not watch the video they would be sent to a computer and they would watch it then. Of course they would be excluded from the experiment that was going on. In a math class, don't watch the video and you will be watching it at school and doing the problems that night at home. Most students quickly learn it is less painful to watch at night and do the "work" with a teacher close by. From a classroom management perspective those minutes trying to keep kids engaged to a lecture are he most difficult. So 15 minutes of content take 25 or more minutes to deliver. Ideally the teacher will have a unit's worth of videos ready. The easiest way to deliver them is via the internet on either a video sharing site like youtube or teachertube (check there are already 1000s uploaded). We use Moodle, a Blackboard or WebCt type environment. We could also download the vids to a student's device (phone, iPod, tablet, etc) finally burning DVDs is the last resort but will capture the rest of the students. There is the option to watch them in the library before and after school. Most of the time the best time for the teacher to be around is when the student is using the new knowledge.

Last month I attended a workshop on the flipped classroom concept and have been busy converting my classes. The hardest part so far is learning to produce quality screencasts with decent video. Basically the idea is delivering new content via video as homework and then the students work on what was homework, in class. Using Bloom's Taxonomy it would be having the student working on the lowest levels, comprehension and knowledge at home and the higher levels, synthesis and evaluating in school. I was using the free trial of Camtasia to record video and audio together with a PowerPoint presentation. The software is nice but not $300 nice. Then it seems to drop to freeware that is a struggle to get working correctly. I know we have a couple educators here and perhaps a video person or two. And as a student what do you think? Any thoughts?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 14, 2013 -> 08:20 PM) Any of them. I agree with you. If I ranked them it would be Carter, Dubya, Clinton, and Sr.

Where I thought Marty was going, but didn't was, making the playoffs increases attendance, missing decreases attendance, it doesn't matter what marketing calls the current strategy. That I can agree with. And somewhere someone mentioned rebuilding is rarely a one step process. It seems like its building and building and building until a little luck and some great moves all collide at the right moment.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 08:25 PM) Vandelay's work was much better imo

April 15th is closer than you think.

Looking at the Frank HoF thread and the Konerko hitting 34 to pass Frank on the All-Time Sox HR list and wondering . . . Remember, Frank would have to play the field or pitch hit.

QUOTE (Brian26 @ Jan 13, 2013 -> 02:54 PM) I'm not disagreeing with you, but Glavine's career happened to coincide with an Atlanta Braves' run where they were the best team in baseball cumulatively over a 12-year period. If Glavine isn't pitching on the Braves for those years, he has many fewer wins and probably never would have reached 300. True. But we run into the chicken and egg debate. Are teams with future hall of fame players more likely to win a lot of games?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 14, 2013 -> 09:16 AM) I wish I had a spare $25k. I was thinking the same thing, although I'm not certain with $25k to blow if I would pick a ring.

i wonder if you can be such an average pitcher and rack up 300 wins, why more non hall of fame pitchers haven't managed to do that? It seems pretty easy. Just look at the list of average players with similar stats. You'd think a few more of them would have over at least 200 wins.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 9, 2013 -> 01:43 PM) I think voters wanting to make a point will make Thomas a 90%+ first ballot guy. He seems to be the representative of the "he did it the right way, clean" crowd. Agreed. The sad thing will be if they also do an about face on any of the guys that were passed this year. I'd dislike seeing him go in alongside Sosa or Bonds. I would see some writers making certain Frank enters ahead of those guys. I just realized he's about the first player I really have cared about being in the Hall.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 12, 2013 -> 08:36 PM) Does it really matter whose it is? A WS ring is a WS ring. I wouldn't care if it was a beer vendor's ring. It would to a collector. Would you rather have a beer vendors ring or Konerko's ring?

1366 x 768 on my laptop

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 6, 2013 -> 07:03 AM) Cheers my friend. She was born on Friday and is sleeping right next to me at the hospital right now. Life is good. Congratulations!

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Jan 3, 2013 -> 05:48 PM) I absolutely agree that people should be able to put things down for 15 minutes, but that's not the point. If the FAA said everyone should have to sit still with their eyes closed the entire flight for the safety of the plane, does that make it OK? Or would you question it because it doesn't make sense, and want a reason for it? If it was THAT big of a deal, as someone mentioned, they'd go around and turn them all off, confiscate them, or not let them on the plane at all. I'm pretty sure plenty of people stop using their device, but just throw it in the pocket in front of them, etc. I believe a better example would be if they told you that you could not take nail files, water bottles, shampoo, shaving cream, or 1/8" or longer pen knife blades would you question it? Would you question it is they they asked you to take your shoes off before boarding the plan, stuff like that. If the FAA said that a terrorist could bring down the plane with an iPad, we'd give them up from takeoff to landing. Silly isn't it? We easily accept greater restrictions to possibly prevent a random act of human horror, but fight much smaller restrictions that might prevent a random act of electronic malfunction.

read less and watch more reality TV so I can relate to my literature students.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 2, 2013 -> 03:06 PM) The only people hurt by this are not government, though we will all feel much pain (for no reason). Who do you think you are sticking it to? Continuing to borrow limitless amunts of money is actually doing the sticking. But it only sticks people who actually pay taxes. It's about not sticking it to future generations. It's about not borrowing money to give us s***. The economy is based on borrowed money, that doesn't last forever. But most of America starts crying like petulant children at the supermarket checkout.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jan 2, 2013 -> 12:06 PM) Hell I consider myself a regular poster and I'm only at 10k! Just craziness. I'm glad you said regular and not normal, there are no normal posters around here.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 3, 2013 -> 10:54 AM) They should do it like "Whose Line is it Anyways?" If they want to filibuster, the rest of Congress draws ideas out of a hat and the speaker must speak (or do improvisational comedy) on that topic. Awesome idea.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 1, 2013 -> 09:47 AM) If the Mayans were so smart, why didn't they stop the Spanish? no one expects the Spanish inquisition

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 3, 2013 -> 10:38 AM) So apparently there is no risk that the ipads which pilots use in the cockpit can't malfunction. It would seem easier to determine that the pilot,s iPad is malfunctioning when it is the only one turned on. Funny we gave up nail clippers and water to fly but not iPads and cell phones.

There is actually a nice follow up to that article from an opposing viewpoint. I rarely read comments but it was the first one and caught my eye. I don't mind a few minutes of turning off my electronics.