Followup: “YouTube is my Homework?!”
Post by Matthew Ragan - -
As I mentioned in the “YouTube is my Homework?!” presentation on 1/14/10, there are tremendous resources available on the net for video. These have great potential both in and out of the classroom, but the hard part becomes finding and distributing these pieces of media. Finding something relevant can be as easy and simple as a Google search, or it may take some more time to find the piece of media that illustrates your point (or counterpoint). To help you along in the process of finding some of the good stuff, here are a few places to start the search:
NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/
National Geographic
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/index.html
The Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/index.php
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/programs/index.html
The Discovery Channel
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/
Teacher Tube
http://www.teachertube.com/
Calculus on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/patrickJMT#g/c/58C7BA6C14FD8F48
Research Channel
http://researchchannel.org/prog/
YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/edu
The Smithsonian
http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/site/smithsonian/video/
Book Videos
Interviews with Authors
http://www.bookvideos.tv/
National Archives
http://video.google.com/nara.html
Teacher’s TV
http://www.teachers.tv/video
University of California Television
http://www.uctv.tv/
Academic Earth
Courses from Yale, Columbia, UCLA, and MIT
http://www.academicearth.org/
Video Lectures
http://videolectures.net/
Harvard at Home
http://athome.harvard.edu/
Open Courses at Yale
http://oyc.yale.edu/
Georgetown University
http://webcast.georgetown.edu/
Cornell University
http://www.cornell.edu/video/
eln on 20 Jan 2010 at 2:52 pm #
Thanks Matthew!
One of my favorite bloggers is Richard Byrne who writes the “Free Tech 4 Teachers” blog. Not only is this a terrific resource for teachers and teacher education students (lots of great reflections on his own practice, thoughts on instructional methods, and ideas for curricular adaptations) but it is a terrific resource for technology applications at any level of education.
One of his blog posts is a list of alternatives to You Tube. This is a huge issue in many schools because some federal technology grant guidelines require schools to block access to some websites - YouTube among them.
http://freetech4teachers.pbworks.com/Great+Alternatives+to+YouTube