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Create a video educating people about staying safe and secure online and using the Internet responsibly. The prize? $10,000 for the best overall video, and cash prizes to each best-in-category video for individual and school entries. Meet our winners (as selected by viewers and our panel of judges) and watch their stories from three categories: Being a good online citizen Using a mobile phone wisely Maintaining your privacy online

Each is a short presentation, less than 10 minutes.  All are effective and provide an important resources that I integrate into lessons.  I have used these videos here with upper-elementary students, middle school students, and even high school students.  The key is to include enriched content in a short, attention-grabbing way.  You will find that the formats and styles I use work with very wide and diverse age groups.

Stunning time-lapse video of Portland, OR

IWitness is an online application that gives educators and students access to search, watch, and learn from more than 1,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses.

Evaluation of webpages, resources... good, plus many other worthy videos available.

While Plagiarism can be intentional, it is more often caused by misunderstanding.  Avoiding it means understanding the role of intellectual property and what makes plagiarism wrong.  This video teaches:

Why giving credit to others is necessary
A definition of plagiarism
Steps to avoiding plagiarism
Types of ideas and media that can be plagiarized

Studying about the Oregon State Capitol but can't afford a field trip to visit? Or, do you live too far away from the Capitol to visit? Then consider touring it via a series of short videos posted on the Oregon State Legislature's website. View 2- to 3-minute video segments labeled Rotunda and Seal, Capitol Marble, Tower and Grounds, Senate Chamber, and House Chamber. There's also an 8-minute video about the Golden Pioneer.

STOP. THINK. CONNECT.: Protect Your Personal Information

Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Our mission is to organize the web's content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps.

Evernote is a great web service and software application that we can use in education. A lot of ink has been shed on this topic and just one click in a search engine is enough to get hundreds of links to guides and tutorials about Evernote. I have been going through so many of these resources and have collected ideas, videos, notes and many more. If you are a loyal reader to my blog ( I am glad most of you are ) you would clearly notice that guides I write here are different in that they are simple. to the point, address teachers and students direct  need, and most of all written in an easy and simple language. In this regard, I am working on an ebook that will contain all the guides I have posted here so far but will be available for free only to my subscribers. Without any further ado, let us get back to our guide.

TVO Kids- loads of videos and games- educational? Mostly...

http://youtu.be/lF4qii8S3gw Ready to celebrate language, pronunciation? Here's a hilarious but useful video!

Excellent Resource with video from the Plimoth Plantation

Great Netiquette video:

Great story to introduce computer use/safety.

Using Criteria to make decisions Youtube Video

Great justification for research... loved this video.

In Colorado, the State Library, which is part of the Department of Education, produced five videos that illustrate what a highly effective school librarian looks like.

Helen Frost's new book Hidden is brilliant, here is a great video to promote this book and other titles by her!

One of my favorite books! Great video promotion.