YouTube has a firm place in the current classroom. From Khan Academy's videos to YouTube EDU and beyond, there's a reason all these videos are finding a home in schools. In an effort to help keep the ball rolling, Google just launched a set of 10 interactive lessons designed to support teachers in educating students on digital citizenship. A topic obviously quite close to Google's heart.
We were going to use the app as a writing station this year ... but with our new filtering system the app doesn't seem to work very well with the embedded videos. #saddayformobilelearning Works OK with the webpage ... kiddos just can't see the videos when logged in as a student. As teachers we CAN get in to YouTube or Vimeo.
Created by TeachingBooks.net as part of the Caldecott Medal 75th Anniversary celebration, and debuted at the 2013 Newbery/Caldecott/Wilder banquet (June 2013), enjoy personal peaks into the studios of 3 Medalists (David Wiesner, Leo & Diane Dillons, and Kevin Henkes), and then see beautiful first-edition covers of all 76 Caldecott Medal-winning books (generously scanned by KT Horning and the Children's Cooperative Book Center). Under this montage of book covers are audio tracks of 25 of the recipients sharing brief insights into their creative process. Have fun identifying these Caldecott Medal-winning illustrators.