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Eric Bean is an educator who has signed up as a coach/volunteer for the Khan Academy. The Khan Academy has a library of over 3,000 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 315 practice exercises, all free. The focus is mainly on k-12, supporting home schooling or providing additional support for students outside (and sometimes inside) school. Bean has a number of criticisms from the point of view of a ‘coach’. (Interesting use of language here by the Khan Academy: why not teacher or tutor or instructor? Is there a difference in Salman Khan’s mind, and if so, what is it?) Bean’s main criticism is that the interface and navigation for coaches is poor, especially compared to the student interface. I have another criticism. As someone who struggles with math, the Khan Academy would seem perfect for me. My problem though is I don’t know where to begin. Just jumping at random into a video suddenly makes me aware that I need lots of prior knowledge before I can understand this video, but there’s no help on that. Also, where’s the feedback? If I still don’t understand after watching the video several times and doing the exercises, what do I do?
TED-Ed - TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student. TED-Ed Videos - TED-Ed's videos aim to capture and amplify the voices of the world's greatest educators. To achieve this, we pair extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of exceptional educational videos. This website, similar to TED.com, is ever-evolving and we depend on you, the TED community, to nominate inspiring teachers that have touched your life or clever animators who have the skills to bring a gifted teacher's lesson to life.
"You'll find the videos grouped in categories so you can find the information you need more easily. If you're on a dial up connection you may want to let each video download completely before playing so the video runs smoothly."
"Popcorn Shakespeare's" ingeniously simple user experience: watch video of a Shakespeare performance, then move your mouse away at any point to pause the playback and get help with specific terms or passages you don't understand. (e.g., "What does 'Hie thee hither' or 'the golden round' mean?") You can also dig deeper into context or notes from your instructor or peers. But its more than a glossary tool. You can also navigate the video by clicking directly on portions of the the text (similar to Mark Boas' work with hyperaudio). Specific terms and passages also get their own URL, so you can skip directly to specific scenes for further study.
"Streaming video websites are such a big part of our lives, it’s hard to remember a time when they didn’t exist. These websites revolutionized our computer video experience – no longer do we have to download every single video we want to watch – it’s all right there! But the opposite is also true. Sometimes sending a link or embedding a video is not enough, and we need the actual file, or only its soundtrack. And when that happens, the default FLV file format rarely cuts it. Luckily, there are several downloaders-converters out there that make it easy as pie to download videos and convert them into almost every possible format."
In part 1, we looked at the various forms that learning videos can take and the ways they can be used, either as a stand-alone solution or as an element in a blend. We move on to the practicalities of getting a video made, starting with what the film and TV industries call pre-production – essentially all those tasks that need to be completed before you press record on the camera. Seeing as we are concentrating on the absolute basics of video production, requiring the minimum of technical expertise and equipment, you might feel that pre-production is a bit of a grand topic to be spending any time on. But even the simplest productions need some planning, as we shall see.
Video is very much the medium of the moment. Not only do we spend many hours each day watching it on our TVs, it has become an integral part of the online experience. An ever-increasing proportion of the population does not only consume video, it creates and shares it with a world-wide internet audience. Whereas once video cameras cost many hundreds, if not tens of thousands of pounds, they are now integrated for no additional cost in computers, stills cameras and mobile phones. And where once video editing could only be carried out by skilled engineers in elaborate editing suites, it can now be accomplished, often with equivalent production values, with free or low cost software on PCs and even mobile devices.
"Enjoy this list of 12 alternatives dedicated to sustaining all of those amazing classroom activities that the Flip Camera has made possible. Ever since the Cisco announcement to discontinue the manufacturing of the Flip on April 12, 2011, I have been researching and creating this list of alternatives. I think you will enjoy and find comfort in knowing that some of your favorite Flip lessons can still be possible… even after your last Flip fails! After your read please visit my 21centuryedtech Blog and take a moment to follow me on twitter at mjgormans .Please continue to return as upcoming posts involve explorations in PBL, student web page evaluation, STEM, digital curriculum, portable one to one technology, and integrating technology with core standards. But first let’s explore alternatives to the Flip! Have a great week! – Mike I hope you find this information useful. Let explore!"
"RadBox is a quick way to save online videos, so you can watch them later. Whenever you come across a website with a video that you wish to watch later, just hit the Radbox bookmarklet button on the browser. Later, watch all these videos at Radbox. Radbox supports all popular services including YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe, DailyMotion, CollegeHumor, Hulu, Blip.tv, Megavideo, TED etc."
"Movavi Online is a free online web service that lets you download videos from video-sharing sites and save them to your iPhone, iPod, cellphone, and popular video formats: complete list. With Movavi Online, you can also convert videos already on your computer. There’s no charge for the service, and you don’t need to download any software."
"If you can type, you can make movies...with STATE. try our free version at home, on your own PC. with MOVIE MAKER create your movies online and share them with your friends."
"On zimmertwins.com you create your own endings to one of our story starters. You may also create your stories from scratch. So put on your director's hat and you might just be our next featured movie maker!"
"Masher lets you easily create a video by mixing together video clips, music tracks, and photos all for FREE! "
Now an essential online medium, video is a useful way for teachers to supplement classroom learning and engage students in content they can't access on field trips or through books alone. However, finding and sharing videos can be a challenge due to safety and compliance concerns. That's why M86 Security created VuSafe—the secure, simple way to share Internet videos. Through VuSafe, teachers can easily manage and share approved videos and other streaming content, while safeguarding students from inappropriate advertising, comments, links and other content present on sites such as YouTube.
"This is an article about three different lecturers in three different universities being ‘caught on camera’ and publicly lampooned. Although initially amusing to read (unless you were one of the lecturers) the article does raise some serious issues. Particularly troubling is the selective editing by a right wing group of a lecture at Louisiana State University where the professor divided students into opposing sides on the climate change debate then challenged each side to defend their position. The right wing group then selectively edited just his challenge to the anti-climate change group, claiming that he intimidated those who didn’t agree with him and that he was ‘biased.’ Incidentally, this is nothing new. In the early days of the British Open University in the 1970s, an economics lecturer was explaining in the accompanying BBC broadcast television program the difference between Adam Smith’s and Karl Marx’s economic theories. Sir Keith Joseph, the then Minister for universities in the Conservative government, happened to see the latter half of the program (about Marxist economics) and threatened to cut the Open University’s budget if it did not stop ‘preaching communism.’ There is no way these days to stop the recording of lectures, and anyone with very limited knowledge could edit and disseminate the result via YouTube. In the climate change lecture, the recording was made by someone who wasn’t even in the class. It has long been a convention in many institutions that university lectures are open to the public. However, if this privilege – and it is a privilege – is abused, it will have a chilling effect on free speech."
"Throughout the year, the seniors in Bob Wood’s current-issues class at Oakridge High School in Muskegon, Michigan, ask friends and family to interview them. They hand their interviews in with an essay in which they elaborate on what they said in them. Interview topics, chosen by the students, range from “Should I vote?” to “Gay or straight: Does it matter?” to “Where do I go from here?” At the end of the year, Wood burns the interviews onto CDs."
You can begin creating a 21st century learning environment today with one of the easiest and least expensive to use technologies out there. A Flip Video. This $150 investment can go a long way in helping digital native students create using the technology they love with a tool that’s easy on the wallet and has virtually no learning curve...especially in the hands of students.
At Learn it in 5, you'll learn what is Web 2.0, and strategies for using Web 2.0 technology in the digital classroom - all in 5 minutes or less. Learn it in 5 is a powerful library of how-to videos, produced by technology teachers, for the purpose of helping teachers and students create classroom strategies for today's 21st century's digital classroom. These step-by-step how-to videos walk teachers through Web 2.0 technology, demonstrating how to use Web 2.0 applications like blogs, social networks, podcasts, interactive videos, wikis, slidesharing and much more.
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