I meant to post these videos several weeks ago. Having momentary access to broadband, in Atherton, Queensland, Australia, I decided to finish the post.
My students built "model classrooms" – 3 dimensional models of schools and other things – for my 3rd and 4th grade English "winter camps" during the first and second weeks of January. I made a pretty thorough video record of our work, and I think it's a good example of "what I try to do in the classroom" when I'm at my best. The full video is about 30 minutes. I didn't do much editing, but the camera was mostly in the hands of the students, and there were a lot of starts and stops and goofing around, some of which I tried to cut out. I divided it into 3 parts in order to post it to youtube. Here are the 3 parts.