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Purpose of the Website: With this website you can upload videos and make annotations along side the videos. This allows you to make a summary worksheet to go along with the video. Grade Level: 2-12 Classroom Connection: Students can create how-to assignments that can be demonstrated with video recording devices. This will give the students an opportunity demonstrate and summarize how-to assignments. Students can also summarize videos uploaded by classroom teachers to practice comprehension, in a visual manner.

Purpose of the Website: This is an enhanced presentation tool that allows the user to create a multimedia, internet-based presentation. The user can also incorporate video, pictures, and narrations in each slide. One of the great things is that users can insert YouTube videos within the presentation. Grade Level: 7-12 Classroom Connection: Students can create a presentation to go along with a research project they are working on, including various multimedia that they found during their research, or that they have created to enhance the presentation. When doing autobiographies with students, this would be a great tool for students to upload family videos from when they were younger. Negatives of this Website: There may be issues with particular videos that are blocked with district filters. I also have trouble with some video applications on my classroom computer at times. This would be an important lesson to show students that they should test their presentations before sharing them.

Educational site that enables videos and video segments for inhancing a lesson!

I use this site a lot because our school subsrcibes to it, but it has some great videos and a great abundance of videos separated by content, video segments etc... Some of the videos are a little outdated but the information is great.

k-12-Professional Virtual tours of reading and writing workshops---14 videos of all components of reading/writing workshops Classroom Connections: * Use videos to see how to set up your classroom for reading writing workshops * Use videos to see how to conduct a reading and writing workshop, as well as conferences and sharing * Use blog to communicate with other educators to learn more about managing a reading/writing workshop

This could be one option for teachers who are looking for a way to have their students post their videos online. Videos can be shared only with select people. The player could be posted on a classroom website and the video shown on it can be driven by what is submitted by the students. You can set security features so the videos won't be seen by the public. I would keep this resource limited to students in the high school level.

This website is a collection of videos created by the students of Mariemont High School. Watching these video might spark an idea for another teachers classroom. Videos are broken up by school year and contain a number of different topics.

3-12 Teachers and students can create or search voicethreads. Images, videos, documents can be uploaded and students can collarborate and/or add comments to voicethreads. Cons: must register and limited access for Free version.

This website is another great example of another high schools video production program. This is also one of the first ones that I came across years ago and have been following ever since. This school is based out of the Seattle area and has won multiple awards for their videos. This site has inspired a number of projects in my classroom. It also contains many good example videos and resources.

Grade level- 9-12 CC- If a student is struggling with a certain area, he or she can use the tutorial videos on the site to help review. Overview- This site offers tons of free tutorial videos on concepts from history along with mathematics. Cons- Not every student has access to the internet.

K-12 Similar to YouTube, but teachers and students can search for school appropriate videos to show in class.

A Project that provides free online media for educators and offers training on the use of video content in the classroom.

a different take on online communities speaking and sharing their minds on specific topics.

Purpose of the Website: Students and teachers can create collaborative multimedia projects that incorporate video, pictures, and voice. This will allow students and teacher to present materials in a visual way. Grade Level: K-12 Classroom Connection: Voicethreads can be used for a variety of activities, but one possible project could be for student to share their experience on a field trip. Students can take pictures of their day on a field trip and create a voice thread to share what they learned about their experience.

Grade Level: 6-12 Create free online video, music and photo mashups. This website is great for the video production enthusiast on the go. This can not only be used in a video production classroom, but for almost any other subject as well.

This is a good resource for the teacher who would like their class to create a video slide show of various images. This might be a better option than using Windows Movie maker for some teachers. Students can access their video at home whether they have a PC or a Mac.

Grade Level: 5-12 AFI ScreenNation features the best films and videos from young filmmakers on the web as well video tips and contests. Films can only be submitted by students ages 11-19 years of age.

K-12 Make phone calls, video chat, can be used for classroom activities and personal use. Con: Must register and download program, and new district permission.

K-12 A new online Screencasting service to capture video and audio from your screen. Cons: must sign up to use.

Create high-quality videos and give them an online home.

9-12 This tool can be used by teachers to guide students through computer programs-among its many other capabilities. I have recently used this to demonstrate for my colleagues a "how to" for setting up their grade books using engrade. One downside to this -for me- was that it took me a lot of trial and error before I realized how to properly use the software. Check out the video for how to use Screencast on the home page.

Unit 5 - audio For those who need to see the steps in a tutorial, here is a short (6:31 min.) video on how to podcast using Audacity

Grades 3-8 This site provides free maps, photos, videos and daily news stories, as well as articles and features about animals, the environment, cultures, and other science topics. Teachers can use this site to reinforce concepts and topics. Students can use this site to help research specific scientific topics.