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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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Beth Dichter
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Explore awesome math and science video lessons from the best teachers online! High quality videos to save you time and help you ace your homework
Beth Dichter's insight:
This site is geared to math and science and currently has videos for algebra, geometry, algebra 2, calculus, biology, and chemistry, with physics and organic chemistry coming soon. The videos are "tagged by educational standards and wrapped in interactive tools (like Q&A and practice exercises)." The website tagline "Glean adapts to your learning style to find the best lessons for you." This site is free for students and teachers. 
Laurent Picard's curator insight,
March 5, 2014 4:42 AM
Le site est gratuit pour les étudiants et les enseignants. Dommage que ce ne soit qu'en anglais... 
Rocio Watkins's curator insight,
March 5, 2014 11:27 PM
Similar to Khan Academy. Great audio resources for teachers and students.
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"In every syllabus or curriculum there are a handful of difficult concepts, dry topics or complex processes that can be difficult for students to grasp, and even trickier for them to remember. Whether it’s a particularly complicated mathematical equation, a wordy poem or a tough scientific process, teachers have been coming up with clever methods and workarounds to help them stick in students’ brains for centuries."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Videos are a great way to hook students on a subject...add music and chances are good that students will listen and watch. Here are ten videos in range of areas. Three are described below. * The Presidential Election Process - Learn about the "US presidential election, from primaries to inauguration day, including the importance of media coverage and fundraising!" * Learn the Continents - Help younger students learn “about the different continents, understanding the basic geography behind them and recognizing them on the map.” * Parts of the Cell Rap - An animated rap where "the relevant part of the cell lights up and moves to illustrate the song as it goes along." Additional videos explore quadratic equations, MacBeth, creating a graph from an equation, states and capitals, the element song, and the life and works of Shakespeare.
Melissa Jenkins 's curator insight,
November 16, 2013 9:00 AM
Finally someone brought the fun back into learning.
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Beth Dichter's insight:
Richard Byrne shares two excellent videos in this post that will help students (and teachers) become more aware about what to look for when evaluating websites. The first video is from Common Craft. The second one he located on YouTube and was creataed in Xtranormal. Both provide provide accurate information and will engage students.
Dean Mantz's curator insight,
July 29, 2013 12:33 AM
I would like to add to Beth Dicther's share, via Richard Byrne's Free Technology 4 Teachers, that website evaluation skills should be a necessity for any student and educator regardless of online or face-to-face.
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Beth Dichter's insight:
Planet Nutshell tells stories through animation. Their website provides access to videos in three areas: * Climate Change - a series of 11 videos that explore issues in climate change including What is Climate, Too Much Carbon Dioxide and How the World can Tackle Climate Change. In addition to the series there is also a list of resources used to create the series. * NetSafe is a series of videos that explore issues that students may experience online. The videos are divided into grade levels. There are four videos for Grade K - 3 that explore What is the Internet?, What is Personal Information?, Tell an Adult, and Be Kind Online. For Grades 4 - 6 you will find five videos including " Cyberbullies are No Fun!, Understanding Online "Friends", and Posting Pictures Online. Five videos are available for Grades 7 - 12 including How to Stop Cyberbullying, Protect Your Personal Information and Say No to "Sexting". Several other videos cover Distracted Driving, Public WiFi Network Safety and Mobile Location Privacy. These videos also allow you to download the transcript. * A third category is Borrow Wisely that discusses FAFSA, Student Loans, and Financial Aid. It appears that they continue to create videos for education (as well as businesses).
Kat Zimmermann's curator insight,
July 23, 2014 10:18 AM
The name really says it all. Different internet tools are introduced in a wait for it...NUTSHELL. The tabs offer other basic introductions to other topics as well.
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Beth Dichter's insight:
If you are looking for websites that provides video resources in the area of social studies check out this post. Richard Byrne provides a list of ten websites, stating "As a Social Studies teacher, I have used all but one of these sources in my classroom at least once and most of them I've used multiple times." The list includes: * Hip Hop Videos - "a series of short, upbeat lectures on topics in US History and World History." * PBS Video - high quality documentaries. * History for Music Lovers "is a great place to find music videos about dozens of topics in World History." Check out the post for an additional seven sites!
Kevin Fisher's curator insight,
January 26, 2015 7:44 PM
Has a list of 10 resource sites for students and teachers that include educational videos, interactive displays, documents, and documentaries related to social studies and the best part this is all free. This allows teachers, students, and parents to use these resources to get a better understanding about social studies. 
Nick Urban's curator insight,
July 16, 2015 3:12 PM
Here is presented a great set of online resources that link to pertinent videos used in social studies classrooms. I personally have used many of these sites in my teaching, but this list provides greater depth and explnation to the sites. Check out this post to find some of the best social studies videos sites that can be utilized in your digital classroom.
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Who knew? Infogr.am, a tool that allows you to create infographics, now allows you to include videos in your infographics...with the caveat they must come from YouTube or Vimeo. For more information check out this post from Richard Byrne!
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Here is our list of some of 35 curated video sites that take the guesswork out of finding and sorting educational video content.
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Kids science, math, social studies, history, geography and other educational videos, lessons, quizzes and educational games for K-12 grade kids that make learning fun and interesting.
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"Mocomi is a nice website featuring educational and entertaining content for elementary and middle school students."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Mocomi is a website geared to elementary and middle school students. Along with videos they have a wide variety of activities in areas including the arts, civics, culture, English, environment, geography, history, science, and math. They also have an online magazine with a specific theme. The current one is called Under Water, and you can access 19 additional magazines online. This might be a site you use with students, or one that they might explore during free time. Richard Byrne suggests that the videos "are a model of animated informational videos" and students in middle school and high school "could follow the model to create their own short videos to demonstrate their understanding of a topic."
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Beth Dichter's insight:
Are you interested in flipping part of your class and would like to know some tools that would also allow you to add assessments to videos. Richard Byrne has three suggestions and all are free! *eduCanon - Quoting from the post "eduCanon allows teachers to build flipped lessons using YouTube and Vimeo videos, create questions about the videos, then assign lessons to their students." *Teachem uses the TED-Ed model. Choose videos that are hosted on YouTube. Add questions and comments. Videos may be public or private. *Knowmia is a website and iPad app and their website has over 17,000 videos that you may use. You may also create your own. Knowmia has been designed for teachers and students and provides an Assignmen Wizard and is adding additional features. If you looking for a tool that allows you to flip a lesson and also include an assessment these three provide a variety of options. Have fun exploring and finding the one that will work best for you.
Charlotte Lovie's curator insight,
March 9, 2014 6:43 AM
Some more ways of adding learning content to video.
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"Excellent educational content can be found on YouTube. However, not every teacher can access YouTube in his or her classroom. That's why a few years ago I compiled a big list of alternatives to YouTube. Over the years some of those sites have shut-down, started charging a fee, or have switched into another market. So this evening I went through and eliminated some sites from the list and added a few new ones."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Richard Byrne has updated his list of sites that provide free videos. His top five list is below: * Next Vista * PBS Video * Explore.org * The National Film Board of Canada * Vimeo Each link provides a short description of what the site has to offer. You will also be able to access the fill list of sites through this post. Videos are a great tool to quickly engage students in learning and this list of websites as well as this search engine are great options to put in your toolbox.
Gary Faust's curator insight,
August 14, 2013 2:10 PM
So nice to have an update of video resources. Thanks! 
Kimberly House's curator insight,
August 15, 2013 4:35 AM
I will certainly be sharing this with staff at my school! The list is thorough and gives a brief desciption of each of the sites mentioned. The list is also up-to-date, having just been checked and edited by it's original creator.
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Fortunately, there are some great websites and services that take the guesswork out of finding and sorting educational video content. Here is the most updated list of some of the curated video site...
Beth Dichter's insight:
Finding great videos to use in class may be time consuming. This post provides links to 40 sources for education videos, and best of all, this is a curated list. Each source in the list is a hot link and a brief description is included. Chances are you will find a few new sites in this lengthy list of websites, as well as ones you may have used in the past!
Osman Kurt's curator insight,
July 26, 2013 3:55 AM
Eğitim herkesin hakkı. Bu linkte internetten ücretsiz eğitim içeriğine ulaşabileceğiniz 40 güzel internet sitesi bulabilirsiniz.
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"OpenEd contains the largest catalog of educational videos aligned to Common Core and other standards. Choose a standard group (Math, Language Arts, Next Gen Science) followed by a category. Then pick a standard and you will see resources for it. You can optionally filter by selected grades (K to 12). If you want to search for resources by keyword instead of a standard, click on the "Search By Keyword" tab above. You can also create courses on OpenEd by registering for an account."
Beth Dichter's insight:
OpenEd is a new source of materials that was founded "with the goal of enabling teachers to have access to the best educational resources (videos, games, and exercises) for their students, especially for finding the right resources for Common Core standards." It is easy to search by grade level and standard, quickly drilling down to the one you need. If you are looking for videos to use with students this may become one of your "go to" sites!
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"One of the great things about teaching today is the wealth of educational videos that are available on the web. No longer do we have to flip through catalogs, order a VHS cassette, wait for it to arrive, and hope that it is as good as the catalog made it sound. Now we can quickly access and screen educational videos. In fact, there is so much available that the challenge is sifting through it all."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Richard Byrne has put together a great list of 10 websites that provide excellent videos for science. Sites include: * The Spangler Effect from Steve Spangler Science (demonstrations of science experiments) * Gooru - a website that has been mentioned in this Scoop.it. "Gooru is a service that aims to provide teachers and students with an extensive collection of videos, interactive displays, documents, diagrams, and quizzes for learning about topics in math and science." If you have not taken the opportunity to check out Gooru it is worth your time. * MIT Tech TV which has thousands of videos. More information on these sites and seven additional sites is available in the post!
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Knowmia for Teachers – Add your own lessons (and you may create lessons on the site), upload lessons, add lessons from YouTube or Vimeo, and share. A lesson planning and recording tools is available for the iPad. Using this tool you may bring in resources from multiple sources, organize them, and create a video lesson on any subject. Coming soon is MyKnowmia, a tool to help you flip your class. Students and parents may also create accounts and access materials.
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For students who are overwhelmed, StudyEgg is an education app that simplifies learning through personalized analytics. StudyEgg takes you through great educational video on the web in an interactive way. By using hundreds of data points on how you're studying, we build customized lessons based on your strengths and weaknesses for a simple and effective learning experience.
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Videos for students to learn from. Organized. Educational videos in a giant directory. Free educational videos for K-12 students. Thousands of hand-picked K-12 videos, teacher reviewed, independently rated, titled, and described.
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If you are looking from some short (as in 1 - 2 minute) videos that may help you begin a science lesson check out Ask Smithsonian, located on the Smithsonian website.
You will find over 40 videos available. The topics vary, from What is the Origin of Applesauce to Is Quicksand Real to Why Do Bugs Die on Their Back. You will also find some videos that are applicable to social studies, such as How Did King Tut Die.