Instructional Video

My last blog for my class. Maybe I'll continue. I don't know. Right now I need a mental break from writing. Within the last week, I have written a 20 page paper, two 9 page papers, and a 2 page paper. Thank God for thanksgiving break! This is my last semester of classes and student teaching in the spring then graduation! I'm so excited!

Anyhow, time for the blog about my... instructional video! We were told in class to make a how to video and have it be between two to three minutes. It's crazy what happens when you allow students to do things on their own. You tell a student to have liberty and do what they want and it seems as if all the walls come. The student wanders what to do and literally has no idea. For me, it was hard because I wanted to do something that no one else would but that would also be helpful.

So today, I went to make the video and had a hard time. I finally decided on teaching "How to Learn another language" because I'm good at that. But then when I went to do the video, I felt like there was so much more I could do. I was satisfied with my video but also wanted to do something more. I feel like I can never include enough. I feel like I can always do better. But that's my life.

Overall, I really enjoyed this project and this class. It was fun and interesting and my classmates were crazy but it was funny. I was the only senior, the rest of them sophomores. It was amazing what two years does. I remember being that care free in class. Then I became a senior and I had too many papers to write to be care free haha.

Well to conclude, have a wonderful thanksgiving! I know I'm ready to rest :) Goodnight and God Bless!

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." - William Shakespeare

Insightful Woman

WebQuest Reflection

The past blog you saw was what we educational people call a web-quest. Basically that is an electronic way of teaching/homework combined. It's pretty cool. At first it was difficult to do. I had no idea if I was going to go to a web-quest site or do it on here. Finally, I came to the conclusion that it would be best to put it on here just so I can have everything in one place. So i began the project and it was actually kind of fun to make it. I really enjoyed finding videos and activities to do for the web-quest. Afterwards, I looked back at it and there was probably more I could add, but what I had was acceptable to me. I will probably use this in my classrooms in the future when I expand on it, so this is a great starting point. It was fun to do and it did take some time, but it was all worth it. I have to admit, I did not really understand web-quests until this project. Yes, I have been through the education program but it was never really explained. I thought that our professor not really explaining what we were to do would be horrifying but it's actually allowed me to learn more because I was able to explore it myself. I'm the type of person where if there is an assignment, I want to know the ins and outs. But this project has only confirmed that students can learn without you teaching them specifically. Students can learn when you allow them to explore for themselves. I will definitely use this in my classrooms and allow students to explore the English language for themselves.


"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."–Mark Twain

-ThoughtfulWoman