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This session will be centered around modeled lessons demonstrating best practices in utilizing user-generated video, facilitative teaching, and student-centered learning. The participants, acting as the students, will collaborate to create and publish technology-enhanced learning outcomes that will be available online for reinforcement, remediation, and assessment. During this session you will experience an exciting, engaging, and transparent 21st century classroom. Click here for the session agenda and participant work.

This session will be centered around a modeled lesson demonstrating best practices in utilizing user-generated video, facilitative teaching, and student-centered learning. The participants, acting as the students, will collaborate to create and publish technology-enhanced learning outcomes that will be available online for reinforcement, remediation, and assessment. During this session you will experience an exciting, engaging, and transparent 21st century classroom. Read more

A new licensing agreement with Discovery Education will bring the music and methods of Dr. Lodge McCammon within reach of a million teachers around the world.
McCammon, a curriculum and contemporary media specialist in the Friday Institute for Education Innovation, brings 21st century tools into the classroom. He’s a proponent of making classroom videos and posting them online to get kids involved in learning–part of an approach he calls FIZZ. Read more

This music video about linear equations received 75% of the popular vote. They are the winner!  Congrats!  Click here to see the session agenda.

New agreements with BBC, Espresso Education/Channel 4, Dr. Lodge McCammon, CBS News, Smarterville/Reading Rainbow, and Visual Classroom add robust educational media to its digital content services. Educators have access to best-in-class educational content from more than 200 producers worldwide.  Read More

Discovery Education Workshop
Enhancing the Classroom with User‐Generated Video and Music
Lodge has developed a teaching and professional development process called FIZZ which encourages and models best practices in implementing user‐generated video in the classroom to enhance standards‐based lessons. In this session, Lodge ‐ also a studio composer and musician – will guide us through a fun, interactive and collaborative exercise using standards‐based songs about advanced curriculum for K‐12 classrooms.

This session will be centered around a modeled lesson demonstrating best practices in utilizing user-generated video, facilitative teaching, and student-centered learning. The participants, acting as the students, will collaborate to create and publish technology-enhanced learning outcomes that will be available online for reinforcement, remediation, and assessment. During this session you will experience an exciting, engaging, and transparent 21st century classroom. Click here

Using educational technology to teach curriculum, enhance student engagement and academic achievement defines a 21st century educator. These are the goals for educational specialists at North Carolina State University who are working with three districts in North Carolina that received a community development grant from Golden Leaf for $1.1 million over the next two years.  Read more

Group 1 wins with 59% of the popular vote!  Congrats!

Click here to find more songs. Click here for the lesson agenda. Click here to learn more about The Friday Institute. Click here to learn more about Dr. Lodge McCammon.

Watch the two music videos about area, volume, and surface area - then vote for your favorite! Voting ends @ 4:00pm on Monday, May 3rd. Click here to find more songs. Click here for the lesson agenda. Click here to learn more about The Friday Institute. Click here to learn more about Dr. Lodge McCammon.

The Base Music Video - WCPSS - Group 1

The Base Music Video - WCPSS - Group 2

Two Centennial Campus Middle School students created a music video about integers, to the song “On The Number Line.”  Very creative!  Excellent work!

Let’s face it: This generation of students absorbs information different than past generations. They are fed a constant stream of information – outside the classroom – through sites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. So, is there any wonder they have a hard time being engaged in a static classroom?…[more]

This video was created at the PETE&C Conference in February 21st, 2010 while Dr. Lodge McCammon was conducting a professional development session with Discovery Education Network teachers. http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/

Congratulations to ELM 250, Section 2 for receiving 54% of the votes and winning the FIZZ music video contest!  Throughout the 5 days of the contest, each music video was viewed over 400 times!  Excellent work everyone!Please enjoy watching the winning video.ELM 250, Section 2 - Vibrations Music Video