Useful classroom videos from Vimeo!

These videos assist in creating an active learning environment and in demonstrating the importance of technological use within classrooms today!

Having an active learning environment in classrooms today is such a crucial concept for teachers to adapt to. Active Learning environments encourage better learning for each and every student. It increases the success within classrooms. These videos demonstrate just that! Having students discuss, brainstorm, collaboratively work together, bounce ideas off one another and so on increases efficiency and learning skills. The use of interactive strategies lets all students learn more and retain more information presented to them. These videos also emphasize the importance of technological use in classrooms. Our society is advancing extremely quickly in terms of technology! It is important for students to keep up with their fast paced environment. Technological use is a main part of the workforce today and being technologically savvy will only be beneficial to an individual.

For more information check these videos out or click here to access the site Vimeo with many, many more video options to choose from!Vimeo for teachers is a great website to use especially if you're a teacher. Vimeo has hundreds of videos with all kinds of themes available for classroom use. It is recommended that you note the links under your own blog site and eventually you will have your own video library with access to many videos safe and available for classroom use!




Management in the Active Classroom: Interactive Word Wall from EL Education on Vimeo.
Management in the Active Classroom: Praise, Question, Suggestion from EL Education on Vimeo.
Technology, Curriculum, and Collaboration from Deerfield Academy on Vimeo.

Exploring Facebook Education Communities

Upon my exploration, I looked into several Facebook community pages and found quite a bit of useful information! This one in particular is called Edutopia.

The Facebook groups are there for teachers, parents and other users to join and submit feedback. I found these community pages very useful. It allowed teachers to share resources, lesson plans, videos and even articles. One neat example I came across was a few articles on bullying. How it effects students and how to identify bullying behavior within your students. I found these articles very helpful as bullying is sadly a very common issue in today' s society.

I also came across a post about dealing with students with extreme behavior. I decided to explore the posts other Facebook users contributed and their feedback was effective. However, one user wrote "teach your students to fight back", with this, someone politely replied and said we do not encourage violence as there are other ways to deal with extreme behavior. They also continued on to say feel free to stay on our page but if you do comment negatively we will block you from the group. This put emphasis on the validity and reliability of the content within this Facebook community. This was reassuring as I realized the content posted within this Facebook group was accurate, and appropriate.