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Teacher Training videos

Academic Earth has hundreds of free online video courses from leading universities across the breadth of the curriculum - great stuff!

John Seely Brown: "Even when children are high achievers and facile with new technology, many seem gradually to lose their sense of wonder and curiosity, notes John Seely Brown. Traditional educational methods may be smothering their innate drive to explore the world. Brown and like-minded colleagues are developing the underpinnings for a new 21st century pedagogy that broadens rather than narrows horizons. John Seely Brown, former chief scientist at Xerox, has morphed in recent years into the "Chief of Confusion," seeking "the right questions" in a range of fields, including education. He finds unusual sources for his questions: basketball and opera coaches, surfing and video game champions. He's gathered insights from unorthodox venues, and from more traditional classrooms, to paint quite a different picture of what learning might look like. The typical college lecture class frequently gathers many students together in a large room to be 'fed' knowledge, believes Brown. But studies show that "learning itself is socially constructed," and is most effective when students interact with and teach each other in manageable groups. Brown wants to open up "niche learning experiences" that draw on classic course material, but deepen it to be maximally enriching. In basketball and opera master classes, and in architecture labs, he has seen how individuals become acculturated in a "community of practice," learning to "be" rather than simply to "do." Whether performing, creating, or experimenting, students are critiqued, respond, offer their own criticism, and glean rich wisdom from a cyclical group experience. Brown says something "mysterious" may be taking place: "In deeply collective engagement in processes...you start to marinate in a problem space." Through communities of practice, students' minds "begin to gel up," even in the face of abstraction and unfamiliarity, and "all of a sudden, (the subject) starts to make se

YouTube EDU: videos and channels from YouTube's college and university partners (maybe we could be one!)

3-D video coming to education

Visual MD: anatomy and physiology videos and animations

Visual MD: anatomy and physiology videos and animations

Phiip Zombardo on "The Secret Powers of Time" - great, GREAT video on time, culture, and learning

use this in your classes!

Wallwisher: online notice board maker - no registration required - effective for ESL and struggling students. use images, music, video, pages. Drag and Drop, re-arrange

free lecture videos

Differentiating Instruction: a cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia video on "Why Learning Styles Do NOT Exist"

edublog2008 winner (best educational use of video / visual): Steve Spangler's Science

WallWisher: an online notice board: Post-its online - no user registration needed, integrate images, music, video, pages - make announcements

Know Your Meme: RocketBoom's documentation of Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebrities, etc.

YouTube Creative Commons: video collections that have been added under the Creative Commons license

ccmixter: 'download, sample, cut-up share' - search creative commons archives for music for your video, school project, presentation, podcast, etc. and STAY LEGAL! :)

Intel announces "mind-reading" brain-scan software, augmented reality innovation, "dispute finder" tech that monitors conversations & warns them when they find contested info, holographic shopping displays, & a TV set-top box that indexes your Internet video

Pamela for Skype: extends Skype with a bunch of features: call and video recording, call transfer, answering machine, videomail, etc.

how online learning will change the way the world learns