Need help with class? YouTube videos await.
When University of Central Florida junior Nicole Nissim got
stumped in trigonometry, she checked out what was showing on YouTube.
Nissim typically scours the video-sharing Web site for clips of
bands and comedy skits. But this time she wasn’t there to procrastinate
on her homework. It turned out YouTube was also full of math videos.
‘Socializing’ the CMS
Throw Away Those Cookbooks!
iFoods is the new and hip way of interacting with other food lovers worldwide. Not only do you get to upload your own recipe videos, develop your profile and prove your culinary genius to everyone but you also have the option of learning a few things from our professionally produced video cooking tutorials. Our recipe videos have been developed by two top class chefs who have travelled the world, cooking for the rich and famous and picking up many varieties of cooking styles.
Gobbler For Yahoo! Teacher
New tool by Yahoo! that lets teachers collect bits and pieces from around the web with attribution into shared knowledge collections in the Y! Teachers portfolio
Free Social Media Tools For Educators
While most districts are still tackling Web-based collaboration tools from pedagogical and security perspectives, a large number of teachers are already out there using these tools to supplement instruction, engage learners, and encourage their students to become producers of information, as well as consumers of it. In other words, they’re experimenting. And here are some of the free tools they’re using to do it.
Mr. Duey Raps on Teacher Tube
Do You Want Test Scores To Go Up? Want to Make AYP? MR. Duey release his first single off the very anticipated album titled “Class Dis-Missed” Album includes 17 songs from the most difficult subjects to teach. WWW.MrDuey.COM to preview more songs.
Minds on Fire: Open Education and Learning 2.0
The world has become increasingly “flat,” as Tom Friedman has shown. Thanks to massive improvements in communications and transportation, virtually any place on earth can be connected to markets anywhere else on earth and can become globally competitive. But at the same time that the world has become flatter, it has also become “spikier”: the places that are globally competitive are those that have robust local ecosystems of resources supporting innovation and productiveness.
TeacherTube (YouTube for Teachers)
Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.
Use Wordpress For Podcasting
Podcasting is seamlessly supported as of Wordpress 1.5. Just link to an audio file in one of your posts and WordPress will automatically add the necessary enclosure tag to your RSS2 feed to make it usable as a podcast.
Educators Connecting To Explore The Next Generation Of Teaching
NextGen Teachers are a bunch of like-minded educators around the world focused on improving teaching and learning with new technologies.