More on iTunes U

I wandered back onto iTunes U and went in the Teacher's Domain through the beyond campus, PBS section. There were a three sections for K-12 learning, by topic, by grade and by free public lecture. I looked at the video's in the "by topic" section.

My least favorite subject is engeneering, so I chose to watch some videos in that topic to see if it would get me interested. I was really impressed, I thought it was really interesting! I watched the video on Engineering for the Red Planet, which was all about how Ayanna Howard makes robots for NASA. She talked all about how she gets to be creative all day at work, coming up with ideas how to make a robot act like a human, so they can do human tasks on Mars. This video was only less than 2 minutes, but I thought this field was really cool, and made me want to learn more about engineering so I could make Robots for mars that act like humans!

Any teacher could use this in the classroom to get kids excited about subjects that they think are boring; I know it worked for me! I thought up of so many projects I could do with my kids after watching the video on the Robot! These are great teaching techniques!