Episode #2: Attention-Grabbers

• Intro- What's going on in our lives/classrooms
• • Thanksgiving
  • bowling

• Fun Fact: Overhead Projector
• • opening our new flexible maker space

1. Tables, Chairs, stools, beach pillows
2. Building materials (cardboard, masking tape, duct tape, scissors) for fast prototyping and
3. Cain’s Arcade
4. Friend and a colleague visiting to get ideas

• Storm/flood discussion & research teachable moment, went outside

• Attention Getters/Grabbers

• Survey! Reminder! Announcement!

• 1, 2 Eyes on Me!
• Hands on top, now we stop
• pack it up, pack it in (House of Pain’s Jump Around)
• Waterfall in 3, 2, 1…. shh……
• bump X5.. bump bump!
• hocus… focus!
• To infinity… and beyond! Description

Thank you all for joining us. Please leave a rating and comment for feedback. It’ll help us make our show better.  Please visit our site: teachingbites.com to subscribe; and visit and like our FB at facebook.com/teachingbites

 

Links:

30 Techniques to Quiet a Noisy Class

Pinterest Link

Buzzfeed’s 27 Attention Getters For Quieting a Noisy Class

Cain’s Arcade

Overhead projectors: From bowling to classroom

Overhead projectors: police ID work 

 

Music

"Presenterator" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

 

 

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/