Video Resources for Students and Teachers

I've been wanting to put out a post that tells all of the video resources available for students and Teachers in our district. It seems many students get frustrated when trying to access video for projects or learning because much of it is blocked by our districts filtering system (including http://youtube.com). However, there ARE many resources that ARE available to teachers, including youtube videos, you just need to know where to look!
en wanting to put out a post that tells all of the video resources available for students and Teachers in our district. It seems many students get frustrated when trying to access video for projects or learning because much of it is blocked by our districts filtering system (including http://youtube.com). However, there ARE many resources that ARE available to teachers, including youtube videos, you just need to know where to look!


LINKS WITH VIDEOS THAT AREN'T BLOCKED FOR STUDENTS!!

#1 SAFARI

#2 EDVIDEOS -- Here, teachers can login (your district Login) and submit video links from Youtube that fit into their curriculum, then students can go to edvideos and view the youtube video!!

DE Streaming -- You need to get the username and password from your Teacher-Librarian.

Brightstorm

NBCLearn

TeacherTube

SchoolTube

cnn.com/studentnews

Brainpop -- You need to get a username and password for this one, but students can get it from the teacher librarian.

MathTV

Khan Academy - Mission is to provide anywhere anytime user-paced learning. These are all Youtube videos, so refer back to #2

Video.pbs.org

Ted.com -- This one is great for getting students to react to some "outside the box" thinking!

Learn 360 -- You need to get a username and password for this one, but students can get it from the teacher librarian.

PRESENTATION SITES

slideshare

slideboom

authorstream

PREZI - You need to sign up for this one, but get on the education version and you still get lots of features for FREE!

Edu.Glogster.com -- This is a great one for student projects.

The Technology Mini-Conference is HERE!!

I have been working feverishly over the last few weeks preparing for our technology focused Professional Development day. Doug Johnson will be our keynote and there are 15 different sessions for teachers to attend. We will truly be "differentiating" our professional development by allowing teachers to choose how they will learn for half of the day!
Check out http://scteachwithtech.wordpress.com for the list of sessions, downloads of peoples presentations and the schedules for the day!

Post comments here if you need more information. It WILL be a great learning experience for all of us!

Layne

an educational conversation

Today, Glenn Beck had a conversation with Stephen Dubner (author of Freakonomics) regarding the idea of getting rid of the U.S. Department of Education. Below is a portion of the conversation:

BECK: How do you mean? What needs to change?

DUBNER: Well, you could argue a lot of things need to change. There's a program in New York City right now. So same school system that brings you the rubber rooms, New York City, public school system — where I live, in New York City — also brings a pilot program called the School of One, which I think we'll be hearing a lot more about in future. It's a very small pilot program right now.

What it does is it takes all the students in a classroom and instead of having one teacher up there individually trying to teach 30 kids
— now, kids learn differently at different paces in different ways.

What this does is it uses technology to figure out what each kid is learning every day. They take a test at the end of every day. It goes in the computer. There is an algorithm that essentially determines a playlist for each kid.

Instead of the iPod playlist, you have a workstation playlist. Every kid is being taught every day in a variety of modalities — meaning, sometimes it's a teacher with a large group. Sometimes, it's a small group of kids. Sometimes it's one kid with the computer.

We're in the 21st Century. We're surrounded by wonderful technology. And it's time that teaching and the art of teaching and the science of teaching are kind of brought up to that.

We really need to rethink who that person is in the classroom.

View the whole article HERE:
I thought this was VERY interesting in light of the recent conversations I've been having at the Iowa 1:1 conference and also working with teachers.
Leave your reactions in the comments. I'd be interested to see what people think regarding the 21st Century learner!