Academic Discourse

This is rapidly becoming my second most watched video on YouTube. In just a week, it already has nearly 100 hits! Watch out Mr. and Mr. Fingers!

The purpose was to begin modeling for students what academic discourse looks like and sounds like. There was a viewing guide where the students had to write down our sentence starters and take note of our body language (how we look at each other, we speak one at a time, we nod our heads, we respond to each other, we challenge each other, etc.).

To you, it is probably boring as all hell. But for our students, it made us appear ultra cool because we, their teachers, are on YouTube.

This was filmed a week ago - I was sick at the time (thus the Barry White-ness of my voice) and our camerawoman, though untethered by cords or a tripod, opted to stay mostly in one place thus making the side of my head famous.