summer learning

This is a video of the spread of Wal-Mart Stores across the U.S. I had this last year and saved it for my class computer–but now I will add it to the resource material for my students. YouTube has a lot of material for Wal-Mart (some interesting SouthPark) but much of it is negative and vulgar. I’d love to find something in the comedy area that doesn’t have so many forbidden words.
I also found a very nice video of the Beijing Olympics song. I will probably use this as an opening conversation starter for my World cultures class this fall. Who saw the Olympics? why controversy? what is your opinion of China now?
I then looked for the video of making a doggie diaper from a baby diaper (a current concern in our house.) This made me try a lot of different word combinations in the search box. I knew the video was out there because I had seen it at home–but I wondered how long it would take to find it on YouTube. It took about 4 minutes. winning combination –dog diapers using baby diapers. It showed how to put on the diaper–but referenced the video of how to make the diapers. Unfortunately, this is a how to video I might have to use in the very near future.
My for fun video was a search of what is out there for “1776″ a musical that I show to my Government classes. I saw clips from the movie and there were two very popular things to do with it. One was to set scenes from the movie to different music –christian rock, The Devil Came Down to Georgia, etc. and also there were video’s of students acting out the dialogue (songs) of the movie–not in costume really–but with props. This might be something I would have my students do to just get them interested in both the music and what message(s) the lyrics convey.

I couldn’t resist this one from TeacherTube–Supply and Demand review –but also government terms. I will definately use this one! And it does seem like something I could set up for my students to create for exam review. I think it is The Avengers music.  I’m not sure why it isn’t showing up on the blog.  I have posted it two ways–the HTML  code, the Teacher Tube directions to add it as code–but here is the link.

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=30937b99c0d247e9c383