Honesty is the best policy?

Using my new found video embedding skills, I thought I would share this highly amusing example of "how not to get on the right side of your students' parents". Here we have the evidence to support my theory that in order to teach, you must maintain a sense of humour at all times. Enjoy.

'Pernickety' film project.

One of the skills I will bring to teaching on the creative and media diploma is acting. I have worked as an actress on stage and screen and I'm currently working on a film project for a new writer/director. I will be writing and delivering a unit for my year 11 diploma students entitled Exploring Group performance, and I'm lucky enough to have good contacts in the world of theatre who are happy to visit the school and deliver workshops.


Last year I was involved in a project that saw me acting in a short film by new writer Holly Wicks. Follow this link to read about 'Pernickety' in production and see me put my words into action.

Wicks' Word Web: PERNICKETY DAY 3

You can find out more about the film by joining the Pernickety Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=37537091240&view=user#/group.php?gid=37537091240

Visual Diary

As part of my teacher training for the creative and media diploma, I have been asked to keep a Visual Diary. The purpose of this is to reflect on my learning throughout the course. Each term I will be expected to use a different approach or technology, thereby expanding my repertoire of technical skills.

This term, I have decided to use my blog as evidence that I am improving my specialist subject knowledge and developing my ability to use ICT effectively to support teaching and learning.

If you'd like to create your own blog, but are unsure of how to go about writing posts, here's a link to a fab website that should give you a few web-writing ideas.

www.webwritingthatworks.com/DResourcesSOYOU04webeditingr.htm

Embedding You Tube clips into your blog

OK, so I've found some interesting clips on You Tube that will not only help with my own learning, but could be useful to my students on the Creative and Media Diploma. The only problem is, I have no idea how to get the clips from the You Tube website to my blog. Hmmmm. What to do? Let's see if You Tube can help me?




Success! You can learn how to do this too by watching the video I've embedded here - or - you may find it easier to follow the step-by-step instructions below:

1, Log onto your blog
2, Open another tab and log onto You Tube
3, Find the video clip you want
4, Locate the 'embed' text box
5, select the code in the box and right click
6, Select 'copy'
7, Go back to your blog and click 'new post'
8, Select the 'edit html' tab
9, Right click inside the text box and select paste
10, Select 'publish post', et voila - you have successfully embedded your clip. Easy.