Ramblings et al

YouTube is one of the most, um, interesting places around the web.  There is truly some weird stuff out there.  Really makes you wonder about people, especially if you leave the filter off.  Just for fun I typed in the word weird and chose “weird animals”, well, I got some weird animals alright.  Then I just kind of fumbled through ( I’ve used YouTube before but only to check stuff out) and looked at everything from AP Top Stories and CNN to Buddhist.  Under the latter I came up with “how to meditate” by a lama/guy who sounded like Rocky to a monk speaking Vietnamese and music for meditating. 

Lots of “how to” out there, many of which will go unmentioned since I was unfiltered!  Good thing very little shocks me!!  But how to eat an oyster was interesting in a why way, as was how to surf in a memory lane kinda way, but how to use a SMARTboard – ouch!!!!  Oh, and the guy that wanted to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony by creating “how to play the guitar – the Eagles, Hotel California guitar solo,” another ouch!!  Overall, not a bad experience but in case you were interested in the oyster thing (and boy, I can see why you would be:)

Teacher tube was just okay. Part of my problem here was the buffing thing going on but I’m using an older laptop, so that could be my problem. I did find some neat ideas, for instance a virtual story summary of Sharon Draper’s YA novel “Tears of the Tiger”. This is a project I will try to use with my kids and some of their reading. Another idea is to use it to perform the short plays they write and now can act in without feeling silly in front of the class. I also thought this would be a great tool to do review pieces (me or the kids) for extra help that they could earn bonus points for viewing and answering a random question or two. Chef Grammar was a video I pulled up and he is just silly but gets his point across, perhaps I should try a personna?