http://www.youtube.com/education and Teaching Channel are two video resources I use in my classroom. I liked the looks of Schooltube.com and will look at it more as a resource. I appreciated that all videos at this site are looked at with moderation. This feature makes me more comfortable with using it without worry of each video requiring a preview by myself.
ITunes was not as user friendly as I had wished for. I used SoundCloud and created an account that I will use to assess the third grade Speaking and Listening Common Core requirement. Students will record research reports of the history of Michigan. Our class will create a “human time line” with each student reporting through the podcast decade(s) of research to help compile the timeline. I have shared SoundCloud with two colleagues for this purpose. Using my phone, students will record. Recordings will be sent via e-mail to SoundCloud for safe keeping and also to share through other foremats.
M.O.R.E Michigan Learns Online certainly qualifies for bringing Anytime Anywhere Learning to teachers and students. I found several worthy videos to use this in my lesson plans for teaching economics on WatchKnowLearn.Org. Scrooge McDuck and Money is a cute cartoon with substance. Vocabulary for both Social Studies and Math, including how much is a billion, and the concept and terminology to teach about inflation was covered. I also found The Fastest Broom a cute and relevant video for teaching about Simple Machines and it was filed under math, so I will cover measurement and a little bit of physics on the same lesson. National Geographic.com is a good site for any age group of learners.
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