Best Job Ever - National Geographic

 

If you are teaching a course in Careers, these 2-3 minute videos might be a nice daily opener to get your students attention.  This youtube playlist has 24 videos of interesting careers.  The first one is below or can be found by clicking here.    The other videos are on the playlist on the right of this video.

New York Times 15 Second Vocabulary Video Challenge

 

New York Times 8th Annual 15-Second Vocabulary Video Challenge

The New York Times invites middle and high school students to create a short video that defines or teaches any of the words in our Word of the Day collection. Contest Dates: Nov. 10-Dec. 15, 2020.

The good news for Canadians is that this contest is open to the whole world.  To see information about this contest click here.

This might be a great idea to do with your English class, ELL class or even in conjunction with your Media Arts class.  Below are a couple of the top videos from 2019.

123APPS

 

This website has many apps available.  They are: Audio Cutter, Audio Joiner, Audio Converter, Video Converter, Video Cutter,  Video Recorder, Voice Recorder, Archive Extractor and PDF Tools.  To see the website click here.

Cloud Stop Motion

If you ever wanted to make a short stop animation video for free try this website by clicking here.  You could have your students use this in science to show how they do a lab or in any other class where they want to demonstrate something.

BoClips

Here is an alternative to youtube for teachers and if you sign up by the end of June you get a 1 year free subscription.  According to their website, "Using video to hook students into your lessons should be seamless, easy, and above all safe. Skip the inappropriate content and unlock the world's largest library of educational videos on Boclips for Teachers. "  To see the website click here.

Bias and TED ED

If you are teaching about bias then you might want to look at using some of these TED ED videos.

To see the above TED ED webpage click here.

To see the above TED ED webpage click here.

To see the above TED ED webpage click here.

Unraveling the Unit Circle Using Spaghetti

If you are teaching how to graph the sine and cosine function here is a nice and possible messy way of doing this for you students that they should find fun.   The video that is  posted on their website can be found by clicking here or looking below.

Next Vista - Career Videos

If you are teaching the Careers course you might want to use this website as part of the course.  It includes a section that has videos of 110 different people talking about their jobs.  To see the website click here.

The Chemistry of Cookies

Last week I had a post on Reaction - A Food and Chemistry Channel.  To see that click here.  Today I am posting about a TED Ed  on The Chemistry of Cookies.  I have embedded the video below but you will want to go the the Ted Ed page as it has many resources for teachers.  To see the webpage click here.

Blockchain and Bitcoin

Ryan Byrne posted the following enlightening videos about blockchain.  They come from Common Craft and Financial Post.  Take a look at the videos below.

Why Do We Have Irregular Verbs?

I saw this video and thought I would share.  If you want a table of the most common irregular verbs in English, click here.

"Turning passive video watching into an interactive and engaging learning experience? " says Joel Speranza.  "Viewing video is a passive experience. The moving images and sound just washes over you and it’s easy to tune out. This is fine if you’re watching “The Bachelor”, but what if you want to use video for education? Flipped Learning for example."

"PlayPosit  is about fixing the passive nature of video and making interactive video lessons instead. It works as a layer that sits over the top of a video source (youtube works with it as do many other video sites) and allows you to embed questions into a video. After students have watched you can check and see who watched it and how they answered the questions."

  To see the website click here.  To see an example click here.  Everything you want to know about Playposit can be found by clicking here.

Check 123

"Check 123" is a video encyclopedia that your students can use to start their research into a topic.  Each video is only 1, 2 or 3 minutes long and all videos are checked and ranked by "Check 123".   Topics include: Arts, Cinema, Earth, Nature, Science, Tech, History, Space, Human Body and more.

To see the site click here.

My Simpleshow - Explainer video

If you need a quick way to make a narrated explanatory video then try this online tool.  I think it is pretty sweet.  It has many templates that could be used by your students in an educational setting.  The could explain an historical event or do a short summary of a book or movie as well as many other things.  You could also make a lesson this way instead of say a powerpoint.  To see the website click here.  Below is an example of simpleshow.  Below that are two tutorials.

Example

Tutorial #1

Tutorial #2

SafeShare.Tv

Safeshare will remove all Youtube ads and suggested videos which might not be appropriate for your students.  Just put the Youtube or Vimeo URL into the box and click the Generate Safeview button.  Your video will now show up on a SafeShare page that will ask you if you want to put a description of the video.  That is up to you.  Maybe you might want to put some questions there.  Hit the submit button.  You can now copy the new URL code at the bottom and use that to show the video to your class.    To see  what an old Youtube video of my son looks like on SafeShare click here.

History Education MN - Primary Sources

I noticed one of our History teachers doing a few lessons on Primary Sources.  I thought that these videos might be helpful for teachers doing the same type lesson.   They are created by the Minnesota Historical Society.

If you would like to see their website click here.  They have material for students and teachers.

VideoAnt - Online video annotation and commenting

If you have a video that you would like to easily annotate then videoAnt might just work for you.  Better yet with this service if you share the link with your students you can have them make comments to the video at any point easily as guests and they do not have to login.  So you could share the link with Schoology,  To see a quick primer on videoAnt by Nathan Hall click here.  To see the videoAnt website click here.

Math Doctor Bob

 

Many students use Khan Academy when searching for help with math.  Here is an alternative that you may find helpful.  Robert Donley uses his white board to explain many topics that are well organized by course and topic. To see his website click here.

Wow Math

If you are teaching math you might want to check out math teacher Bradley Robb's math website.  There are many videos, notes, review sheets and quizzes.  To see the website click here.

History Classes by Tom Richey

Tom has a website that is designed for those that teach history.  He has many videos and powerpoint slides for courses such as World History, AP US History, AP European History and AP US Government.  Each course is broken down into categories.   To see the Power Point slides click here.

You can also look at each course to see the associated videos or the course syllabus by clicking on the drop down menu under "Courses".