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There are excellent quality instructional videos on everything imaginable here. I searched for life cycle and got 106 educational videos on the life cycle of frogs, butterflies, bananas, stars, etc. The geography section has an astounding collection of Canada videos introducing the provinces and the geographical regions. HowStuffWorks explains hundreds of subjects, from car engines to lock-picking to ESP, using clear language and tons of illustrations. We do the research so you don't have to.

This is a subscription site, but it does have a free trial. They have high quality educational videos and research to back up its educational effectiveness. The pricing is posted on their website. In BC, ERAC has special United Streaming pricing.

2100 videos and 100 self-paced lessons mainly about math topics that started as Sal Khan tutoring turoring his cousins and has now become a non-profit academy. Great TED talk on the main page talks about implications for changing education including flipping the lecture/homework paradigm.

Fantastic video by Tod Rose at Harvard describing how designing for average designs for no one. Uses an example from the Air Force and applies it to education.

The Access Center improves students' access to the general education curriculum. The Access Center assists students with disabilities as well as students with other needs. There are links to videos about UDL and many great resources on this site.

This film was created as the Keynote for Net Generation Education Project: http://netgened.wikispaces.comWhen kids at the Suffern Middle School were asked t...

Alberta website has great resources on UDL, RTI, Differentiation, Leadership and Inclusion, Positive Behaviour Support, etc. Includes videos and materials from an Alberta UDL Institute in 2011 with David Rose and Grace Meo.

Excellent Resource for classroom science programs. Includes videos, interactives, and a section where students can email their questions about science to scientists!

This became my 500th bookmark on Diigo thanks to Jim Batchel. If you are trying to figure out whether blogs/wikis/ning is better for your students, it looks like you can have it all and more at ThinkQuest! You need an account to sign in but under the Projects tab you can look at some public video tours of its features. ThinkQuest is a protected, online learning platform that enables teachers to integrate learning projects into their classroom curriculum and students to develop critical 21st century skills. It includes a project environment where teachers and students engage in collaborative learning; a competition space where students participate in website development contests; and the award-winning ThinkQuest library, a learning resource visited by millions.

A great division video for Grade 6 in BC.

This takes division to include a 4-digit dividend by a 2-digit divisor with remainder. It shows a traditional method of long division.

This site was a "favourite" smartboard site listed on another one. Check it out.

A collection of subject-specific smartboard lessons.

Thanks for this post, Jim. This looks like a great assortment of instant video tutorials. I watched the fossil lesson and found it quite entertaining. It was set up as a quest where you had to learn about fossils in the hall of knowledge before earning the right to visit different geological regions.

This is a subscription site, but it has a free trial. BrainPOP features very engaging short animated films that teach common curriculum content. They also have BrainPOP Jr., specializing in K-3 content. The school and district pricing is posted on thei