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 * 6.1 Opener**

1. Do you believe that videos can lead to innovation in the classroom? Explain your answer.

I do think online videos could lead to innovation in the classroom. If teachers were willing to open their classrooms and share teaching methods that work through online videos that could lead to innovation in the classroom. If I read about a new teaching technique, I may or may not give it a try. If I see it in a classroom, if I see how it works, how real kids respond to it, I am much more likely to try it.

I also think it would be helpful to videotape classes to show to other classes. Every year, I seem to have one or two classes that are really really good at student run discussion. I think it would be helpful to show a video of a good student run discussion to show to other classes because as Chris Anderson said in the TED talk, it raises the bar for everyone.

I think it would be interesting to use video to help MHS students interact with and learn from other students throughout the country and throughout the world.

2. How does Prezi, the tool that Chris Anderson uses in the video, differ from traditional presentation tools for the classroom?

Prezi looks like a really interesting presentation tool. So much more interesting than a powerpoint presentation! I liked how he could zoom in and zoom out. I just think visually that worked for his topic - show the big idea and then zoom in on the details. It seemed to integrate all the parts of the presentation - texts, images, videos in a very fluid way.

This is a website that seems to be for college students or educated adult learners. It is very similar to the videos in itunes university. The videos are professors, poets, psychologists talking in a very sophisticated way (huge vocabulary words and abstract concepts!) about the significance of a variety of works of literature. I found it interesting, but I can't imagine using any of the videos with my 10th-graders.
 * 6.2 Video Resources**
 * world lit**

This is a website with videos teaching about grammar, mechanics, and writing. I see this is a resource for myself as a teacher. I might watch some of these videos to get ideas and then try to come up with something original that would work in my classroom. These videos seem to be the video equivalent of worksheets - ready-made lessons. I don't think I would show these in the classroom.
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 * 6.6 Create Your Own Prezi**

My Prezi on Rhetorical Analysis

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**Thoughts on using this tool in your classroom:** I think prezi is a really dynamic way to present lessons. Since I don't like powerpoint, I think prezi would be a great alternative for me, but I will definitely need to spend more time learning how to use it in order to take advantage of its full potential. I like to incorporate video clips into my lessons, but I find youtube very limited. I often want to use very specific clips from DVDs and I can't find them on youtube. One of things I want to do this summer is figure out how to rip DVDs and make my own clips that I could integrate into presentations. Although it would take time initially to do it, it would save classtime in the long run. In the past I have not had students give formal presentations very often, but if I do more inquiry/project based learning this year, students will probably be giving more presentations and prezi would be a great tool.