At the end of my first year of teaching, I heard from another first year teacher, Mr. X., who taught a special education class with some really big challenges. He had some experience with technology and film production and so his fresh take on teaching was to:
- Record his lessons in advance, and play them during class time
- Work closely with his students who required the most personal attention during the time when the class learned via prepared video
Amazingly, this teacher was running his own focused Khan Academy in class. And then provided individualized special education service, while his lesson was being taught simultaneously. By him!
Now what does this have to do with me?
This year I am teaching a small class that needs a different approach to math. (Which I am fully intending to provide.) While I am teaching this class, I want to do the same thing that Mr. X. was doing. And I think, via a Technology PD session at my school, I've learned the way that I can do it.
Here's what I know already I can do with VT:
- Post images
- Connect audio and video to those images
- Set up a slideshow presentation
- Write on the slides/images with colored pens (Just like Khan!)
I don't yet know what my capacity limits are for this site though. Can I do a whole lesson? Can I do a week's lessons? For how many classes? Semesters? The whole year?
What else can I do with this? Anything better out there that I've been missing?
So excited for the potential to clone myself in the classroom!
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