Tool #8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LeFecD1rO8

is a marvelous video explaining how to make a 3-tetrahedron kaleidocycle. I would love to find more videos just like this one that explain exactly the steps to take to make a kaleidocycle.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXLhjYgMZ68

after seeing how helpful the kaleidocycle video was (& I made one and then presented the process to a group of art teachers), I thought origami would be the perfect instructional video. This video is on making a book. I tried it, & got stuck halfway through - but I didn't have origami paper. My daughter felt that I should have thinner paper to be successful. Hope to try again. I've always felt great frustration at origami books whose instructions make it sound like you should understand perfectly (don't you see the arrows indicating which way to fold?) - the video is infinitely better.

My IIW class last January covered international guitar music and related instruments. The students would easily find a You Tube performance using the instrument they had studied and it was helpful to see the researched instrument demonstrated.

In art class, I've found many videos (again through You Tube) that showed how to make various sculptures in papier mache, hand-built pottery and numerous other instructions. They're wonderful - I always learn either giant concepts or just a finesse. I've used the videos for my own instruction - and then in some cases, show it to the students. I like the fact that the videos are short and to the point - and we don't waste any valuable studio art time when the students could be creating.

I love these short videos for classroom instruction! Grace told me that her English teacher would find snippets from movies of novels they were reading on You Tube. O.k., I'm sold on You Tube - but are there any other video sites that anyone uses consistently for classroom use?