The Teaching Channel is a video resource focused on teachers' classroom practice -- the website is connected to the TV show that airs regularly on PBS. Through the site, educators can watch videos of teachers working in their classrooms as as way to learn from, and provide feedback to, peers in their profession. The site's platform also gives teachers a space to share lesson ideas and strategies across a fairly broad range of subjects and grade levels. New videos are added periodically, helping the overall collection grow. Additionally, the site's new Teaching Channel Teams platform functions as a private space for professional development among smaller, closed networks of teachers. It's essentially a more personalized version of the site's public video-PD model, geared toward individual schools or even departments within a school. Teachers can use Teams to connect and share videos of their practice within a small group setting. This creates a safe and supportive place for mentors and coaches to work with new teachers and teaching interns, but could also support collaborative groups of veteran teachers looking to learn from one another.
LearnZillion is an online database of short video lessons that address learning topics aligned to individual Common Core standards. The lessons cover math, close reading, and some writing standards. Experienced teachers create the 3- to 5-minute videos and lesson plans, complete with leveled practice problems, anchor texts, and writing prompts. For kids, the videos feature commentary, extra hints, tricks, and a “try it yourself” segment to help them practice on their own, using pencil and paper to follow the video’s guidance. Multiple-choice quizzes help assess students' learning. When both kids and teachers create accounts, teachers can assign lessons to individual students or to the whole class, see who's completed a lesson, and view students' scores. TED-Ed is a website featuring a curated series of educational videos on a huge variety of subjects. From the folks at TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), whose TED talks have featured some of the world's brightest minds, TED-Ed is a place where kids can get some of that same inspiration. Videos are primarily geared toward a high-school audience, but motivated middle-schoolers might enjoy a lot of the offerings as well. Along with all of the free video content, the site allows teachers to take any educational video, not just TED's, and easily use it to create a customized lesson. TeacherTube is a free site that has a collection of audio, video, photos, docs, and other materials for teachers, students, and parents to see. It is free for teachers to use, but ads and increased storage are available with an upgraded account. Resources can be uploaded by a teacher or can be found through a topic search. Khan Academy is a free website that aims to promote self paced instruction. It houses thousands of academic videos that are placed into guided, adaptive instruction. The site focuses primarily on math but also offers video tutorials on a variety of topics in science, economics, the arts, and computing. There is a section on the site also dedicated towards individualized SAT test prep. Math Missions are also built into the site to make it more interactive. Teachers can use these videos and missions on the site to give students extra guidance and assistance. BrainPop is a group of sites that provides short videos, quizzes, and other videos to students in all grades. It covers subjects of science, social studies, English, mathematics, engineering, technology, health, arts, and music. Several features of the site are free but some parts require a paid subscription. Educators can take advantage of many free videos, lesson plans, and free games. One of the sites built into this is called BrainPop Educators. Educators can find and create resources on this site as well. Vimeo is another site to find video resources. It does not allow users to upload videos as long in length as sites such as Youtube do. This site could be used to gather video resources for your students. Teachers need to create an account using an email address or facebook information. Paid account subscriptions offer users the ability to view videos in HD by default in addition to increasing upload sizes for videos. YouTube is the most popular video resource site. There are videos about virtually anything on this site. Teachers can use this site to find resources for students, upload their own videos, or have students upload videos to share with the class. There is a video editor that is built into the site as well. Teachers must keep in mind that only videos that are labeled "educational" will be available to our students on the student domain. Please check that your videos will work ahead of time so that we can unblock your video if you need it. |
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