Google #22 Discover the potential of YouTube to motivate you as a teacher

There are so many really amazing, educational videos available on YouTube that can really motivate a teacher. These are often brief but powerful in the message expressed. Take a look at these few examples. 1) Connecting classrooms (1min 53secs) Cathy Cassidy a Grade 1 teacher from Canada Gr 1 teacher gives ‘A brief description of my journey to connect my classroom of 6 and 7 year olds’ 2) What most schools don’t teach (5min 46secs) These famous names in technology such as Bill ...

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More inspiration: ‘Here’s to the crazy ones–think different’

Submitted by Fiona Beal I always enjoy these videos that have an inspirational message. This one is said to be narrated by Steve Jobs and it features Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Branson, John Lennon (with Yoko Ono), Buckminster Fuller, Thomas Edison, Muhammad Ali, Ted Turner, Maria Callas, Mahatma Gandhi, Amelia Earhart, Alfred Hitchcock, Martha Graham, Jim Henson (with Kermit the Frog), Frank Lloyd Wright and Pablo Picasso. The young girl at the end is Shaan Sahota The...

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What seems obvious to you may be AMAZING to others! Keep sharing…

We live in the social networking age, the age of sharing information generously with others. But how often does it happen that we want to share something but we think it is too ordinary – that everyone knows about it. Everybody’s idea seems obvious to them. But maybe what’s obvious to you is amazing to others! The thoughts expressed in this video by David Sivers are so inspirational that I thought it would be good to embed the whole video here. Happy sharing! Just do it! ...

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