Vlogging What You Preach
I was meeting on Friday with Andrea Hernandez, our Director of Teaching & Learning (formally "21st Century Learning" - we are trying to message that "21st Century Learning" is synonymous with "Teaching & Learning"), who chided me for not role modeling what was expected of all our faculty. Namely, where was my evidence for my own summer learning!
I blogged, here, about our faculty's commitment to summer learning. I blogged, here, about my own. Silvia Tolisano, our 21st Century Learning Consultant (yes, I recognize the conflict with the above parenthesis; it is an imperfect world we live in!) wrote an amazing blog post on the edJEWcon website presenting a mosaic of our entire faculty's summer learning. You can click on it, here, and I have insisted it move to the front of the website. It is a great post.
There is great diversity in how teachers presented evidence of their student learning. One methodology that inspired me, pushes me a bit outside my comfort zone...so it is probably a good one for me to experiment with - vlogging. It sounds simple, instead of sitting at my desk, writing, writing, writing and writing, I can simply look into the camera and speak. But when the light goes red...so do I! Not so easy...and you'll be able to tell when you watch it. But I did try! [Another problem...I've become so accustomed to hyperlinking, that each time I mentioned a name, I mentally paused to hyperlink!]
[NOTE: I apologize if watching me rock back and forth in my chair made anyone seasick!]
Thanks for suffering through my first (and possibly last!) vlog post. As we enter the season of repentance, you will surely find it in your hearts to forgive me. :)
A Sweet & Happy New Year to All!
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Comment by Naava Frank on September 19, 2012 at 1:40pm -
i liked your vlog. it gave me more of a sense of you - the images of the books - your office - thank you.
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Comment by Tova Taragin on September 22, 2012 at 8:48pm -
It's great to finally put a face to a name, since I have been reading your blogposts for a while. To be honest, in the beginning I turned off the vblog very soon after you introduced the book. I felt you were not holding my interest. I started writing a comment and decided, in all fairness, I should watch the entire video before commenting. I think the biggest problem I had in the beginning, which was addressed near the end was, Jon, that you were not looking straight at the camera and it was hard to feel that you were addressing me. I think a point I learned from this is that when making videos (for flipped learning or the like) in which you want the children to be engaged is that you must always look straight at the camera. Thank you and keep up the great blog posts- I do enjoy reading the ones in print. Please, this week before Yom Kippur, forgive me for being so brutally honest. Shana Tova and Shavua Tov.
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Comment by Jon Mitzmacher on September 24, 2012 at 8:37am -
It was as awkward for me to video as it probably was to watch! I was using my computer's webcam and I think having an image of me in on the screen totally messed me up. But that's why they call it an "experiment"!
I am always looking for feedback, critical or otherwise, so no need to apologize!
Easy fast!
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