Playlists

On Sunday, June 26 from 1:00-2:50 in the SAFARI Montage Effective Digital Classroom, Meeting Room 105A at ISTE, we will be offering a free hand-on workshop for advanced users of SAFARI Montage.   If you are a SAFARI Montage experienced user, then this session is for you!   

Girls in today’s world can aspire to a multitude of opportunities that were not available to their mothers or grandmothers. We need to thank the women before us who paved the way for our generation and those young women coming up behind us. March is National Women’s History Month and content in SAFARI Montage can support your classroom instruction and celebrate iconic women in history.

Knowing that many of you are working on curriculum development projects this summer that include the creation of playlists, we thought it would be helpful to share a rubric for the creation of an effective playlist.  

When we think about summer, the beach, sun, and sand quickly come to mind. But, for some, June marks the end of one school year and the start of another- the extended school year.

Most people think “summer school” and you can see the immediate shift. Fear and dread among students is not uncommon. This is not the case here in Garland ISD. Our teachers are equipped for a summer SAFARI!

Thank you to everyone who participated in our playlist contest!

Our Grand Prize winner was Jason Sharrock of Sarasota County Schools in Florida. Jason, a science teacher, submitted a great playlist about the cycles of matter in the environment, called Round and Round We Go. 

While you may sometimes create a playlist simply to serve as a repository for a few favorite clips or videos, your most effective playlists will function as multimedia lesson plans and share certain qualities and instructional elements. To create truly successful playlists that will serve you and your colleagues well class after class, you’ll want to make maximum use of the SAFARI Montage playlist features.

Baltimore County Public Schools in association with the Carnegie Institution has introduced a program entitled Project BioEYES to all Title I elementary schools. BioEYES is a unique program that introduces the basics of research science to Grade 5 students.

As a support specialist in a large district, I often find that teachers are looking for the same things. We utilize a district framework for our curriculum, so it makes sense that similar courses of study will occur at many of our schools at relatively the same time. If a first grade teacher is teaching about plants at one school, the school across town is probably doing the very same thing. Part of my job involves providing teachers with timely and relevant information.

I login to SAFARI Montage and automatically begin searching for videos of a “shuttle launch.”

Bingo! Found one. Wait. Two minutes and 2 seconds? What happened to 3-2-1 blast off? I only need a snippet from mission control and the actual launch, something that will engage the students and get them excited about our unit on the history of space flight.