Some things I take away from the experience...
- I love being outside.
- Place-based learning is still one of the most effective methods of instruction.
- Students view things through refreshingly naive lenses. ie... Adult = run away from the moose student = cool, a closer photo op w/a moose.
- Some educators/schools 'get it.'
- Doing is often more relevant than knowing.
- A good teacher engages the student. A great teacher adapts to engage the student with the content.
- It's good to be nice. It's better to care.
- Nature is surprisingly loud. Just sit on a hillside listening to the wind come through a conifer forest sometime.
- Everyone can do hard things. They make us stronger.
- Time lapse video is still makes me excited and giddy.
- Flickr and Youtube are still amazingly easy to upload content.
- Flickr and Youtube 'get it' by allowing Creative Commons licensing options.
- Flickr and Youtube are easily accessible for parents to 'check in' with their students who are two states away.
- Flickr and Youtube are great, until you get back to the school and the internet content filter takes over.
- Flickr and Youtube ought not to change. The filter is the one who should get a good talking to.
- Too many people are more excited than they should be about the prospect of seeing a grizzly bear up close.
- Students want to be outside. They want to experience nature.
- 1.25 miles on a GPS = 9.0 miles in a student's mind.
- Dusk + elk herd + elk bugling = bliss
- It is hard to take a bad photo of nature.
- Lastly... my classroom last week was way more impressive than your classroom will ever be. (see photo below)
New trick #1: Ask the school, or get the content filtering software provider, to let through http://youtube.com/education. Trick #2: get your content tagged as education by YouTube. (http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/10/youtube-launches-new-education-site-with-school-access/)
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