The MI's in online learning

Thursday, May 04, 2006

coffee break


One way of talking to the body smart is to motivate someone to get up and do something. I've given a couple of examples, but here is another means of motivation.

It was a delicious coffee with lots of milk foam at the top. wouldn't you like one too? Or maybe a nice cup of tea? Mm. Why don't you just go and get yourself one. I'll wait here for you :-)

The original plan had been to use the webcam to show you the art of eating croisants with coffee. Since I couldn't find out how to publish it on this blog, I opted for the easier way.
If you know how to add video to a blog, please let me know in the comments.

Use of the webcam has a couple of advantages (provided you know how to publish the video.)
You can motivate someone to illustrate or explain something in front of the webcam and then publish it, or you can motivate someone to carry out a task which requires movement, e.g getting up.

Videos also appeal to the visual and audio-types (which aren't necessarily equivalent with picture and word smart, but can be), and can also encourage logic-smartness in a problem-solving task.

3 Comments:

Blogger Gladys Baya said...

Hi Illya!
I think Claudia Bellusci will teach us how to add audio to our blog entries at the beginning of August, and video should be about the same! Just stay tuned at LearningwithComputers !
This is a lovely blog... One of my classes is studying MIT in August... then I'll certainly refer them to your blog!!!
LOL,
Gladys

12:00 PM  
Blogger Illya said...

Thanks for the comment Gladys.
The fact that I know people are reading it will certainly motivate me to continue writing:-)

8:12 AM  
Blogger Nahir said...

Interesting blog about multiple intelligence.


Regarding videos, I uploaded one in one of my blogger blogs. I used grouper.com , they have lots of videos, and you can upload yours. The problem I see is that it'll become public. But you can try, once you choose a video, they offer to post it in your blog, wordpress or blogger, ask you a few things and that's it. You may delete it afterwards.

Congratulations on your blog.And your chat window.
I'm looking forward for the week when we learn to modify templates.
Now I have a hint.I uploaded a radio in my blog ;-)

Nahir.

12:54 PM  

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