Thing #14 Online Video/Audio Resources: Learn360, Teacher Tube, iTunesU

GRPS staff have access to Learn360.   It has  PBS, NOVA National Geographic, and many other resources.  . Additionally, Learn360  allows you to upload podcasts, documents, and other supporting materials (similar to Teacher Tube.)

Check out iTunesU !  It contains educational content available for play using the iTunes media player. Content includes lessons, course materials and more. .

Podcasts are audio or video that you can subscribe to that can be used with students to teach or for differentiation.

Staff need to be careful when using You Tube.  There are lots of neat things available but they need to be screened first and downloaded and students should not be allowed to go to this site themselves during the school day.

Teacher Tube:  Free Online video resources that include videos, the opportunity to subscribe to RSS feeds on specific channels, and the opportunity to create groups for viewing and launching videos. Designed as a safe place for teachers and students to view and share videos.

School Tube is another free educational site designed for video sharing. It has an image bank and educational games (in beta). This site also is a popular site for school news programs. Additionally there are contests and links to educational partners.

Audio and video resources have lots of benefits for our students.  Visual may help them see what it is you want them to learn but audio also helps them learn in a lecture type format. ASD and MOCI students often lack the backgound content needed to learn new concepts and audio and video resources can help to provide it.

Other resources:

Online Educational videos from www.edutube.org
10 phenomenal educational video websites.
Educational videos and K-12 lesson plans neoK12.
Annenburg Professional Development and teacher resources. (http://learner.org)
Math Video Lessons from Teacherzone (http://teacher.tenmarks.com), Khan Academy (http://khanacademy.org),
National LIbrary of Virtual Manipulatives is cool, especially for math.
HippoCampus has lots of manipulatives, many have a video short clip.
PhET has interactive science simulations