A Great Reading Video

One of the planned special editions of the Computers in Classrooms newsletter is about books, so I was pleased to come across this video by Science Girl Em. Em is a 2nd grader, which I guess means 7 to 8 years old, and she is taking part in the Student Blogging Challenge, run by Sue Walters.I discovered it through Stephen Downes.

This is a delightful response to another video about reading, which I hadn't come across. If you like it, please leave comments on Em's blog; I'm sure she'd appreciate it.

Also on her blog is a wonderful description of a trip to Kansas University. Em writes:

We saw a big giant classroom. I thought it was a theater.

Here is the video. Enjoy!

Comments

[Sue Waters]

Thanks for highlighting Emily's blog to me.

The scientist in me has to research it. My first guess based on her About page would have been 8 years however she may be 9 since her about page was first written in Jan, 2009 and here is one of the posts about her birthday posts - http://sciencegirlem.edublogs.org/2009/01/24/emilys-science-birthday/

But what is cool to note is who her dad is :)

Did you notice? ( A clue http://billgx.edublogs.org/about/ ) It's excellent to see his daughter and him learning together! Impressive.

[Terry Freedman, Educational ICT Consultant]

Thx for pointing that out about her age, Sue! I should have done a bit more digging, and my only excuse is that I was virtually falling asleep and should have been in bed instead of hammering away at the keyboard!

I hadn't looked at her dad's profile, so thx for that too. I was, however, very impressed at the way they all obviously learn and do stuff together. Great! I posted a comment on Emily's blog, but it hasn't been approved yet, but what I tried to do was give reasons I liked her post instead of just saying 'cool' or something! Hope she fins it useful.

Cheers :-)