{"id":5061,"date":"2020-05-04T09:50:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T17:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/?p=5061"},"modified":"2020-05-04T09:50:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T17:50:14","slug":"keep-them-coming-back-for-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/2020\/05\/04\/keep-them-coming-back-for-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Them Coming Back For More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A common thread I&#8217;ve been hearing lately is how hard it is to keep students engaged and willing to continue to show up and put in the work. What&#8217;s going to be that hook to keep them coming back for more? David Hymans, a music teacher at Mountain View High School, has come up with a creative idea. He calls it the Beard Thinning Contest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beard Thinning Contest\" width=\"530\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8NORA-CXIvs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are some of the student guesses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"555\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-1.27.39-PM-1024x555.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-1.27.39-PM-1024x555.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-1.27.39-PM-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-1.27.39-PM-768x416.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-1.27.39-PM.png 1221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is the before and after pictures for the first week:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"736\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-1.44.35-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-1.44.35-PM.png 678w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-1.44.35-PM-276x300.png 276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><figcaption>Before<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"740\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-1.44.53-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-1.44.53-PM.png 550w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-1.44.53-PM-223x300.png 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption>Week 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do you keep your students coming back for more? Tell us your ideas in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common thread I&#8217;ve been hearing lately is how hard it is to keep students engaged and willing to continue to show up and put in the work. What&#8217;s going to be that hook to keep them coming back for <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/2020\/05\/04\/keep-them-coming-back-for-more\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Keep Them Coming Back For More<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":5047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stc_notifier_status":"sent","_stc_notifier_sent_time":"2020-05-04 10:15:31","_stc_notifier_request":false,"_stc_notifier_prevent":false,"_stc_subscriber_keywords":"","_stc_subscriber_search_areas":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10695,3853,3852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elementary-school","category-high-school","category-middle-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5061"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5070,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions\/5070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}