Ed Tech @ OSU

Use the search engine below to find educational videos that are not hosted on YouTube. Some excellent educational content can be found on YouTube. However, many teachers cannot access YouTube in their classrooms. Therefore, I compiled a list of other places to find educational videos that don't rely on YouTube.

This website is great for inspiring your classroom. The videos and links are easy to follow and give visual representations of differentiated classrooms.

This document/presentation is great for classroom management. This tool underlines specifics for keeping the students focused and on track.

Slideshow that shows how to establish routines that support a differentiated classroom.

This document helps teachers to better assess students at different levels of readiness.

This website contains links to useful sites that provide information on different types of learning styles. It also gives sources for more tools for differentiation.

LOVE this site. A ton of resources for teachers.. There is also a ton of information about differentiation and what it means.

This is a great tool for creating questions for your quizzes, or short response questions. Also, the differentiator is great for lesson plans and objectives.

Below is a complete list and summary of each of the activity ideas that are featured in Playing to Learn. The full book descriptions for these activities include: 1) introductory information that sets up the context of each activity; 2) step-by-step instructions on leading each activity in class; and 3) extension and modification ideas for adapting each activity.

You read that correctly: Zombie-Based Learning. This website is awesome because it gives you ways how to connect your lessons to Zombies. It makes the classroom environment much more fun!

This is a great website because it shows different ways to incorporate creative curriculum in the classroom to help engage students. There are a lot of different curriculum options to explore throughout the website.

This is a great website because it shows different ways to incorporate creative curriculum in the classroom to help engage students. There are a lot of different curriculum options to explore throughout the website.

This website contains an infographic about different facts about game based learning

To learn how to incorporate games into the classroom, we used Candy Crush and allowed students to play it in the classroom.

This is the full-blown curriculum for "Zombie-Based Learning." Don't make them register for the website, but they can click on the Five Parts to get a basic idea of the lesson module. Ask the question: "How would you set this up for students in your classroom?"

This is the article that students will read if problem-based learning is their favorite teaching. It gives students more of an insight to using problem-based learning and how they can incorporate it into their classroom.

This thoroughly explains what a PBL is and what is designed to do for the students. This is mainly helpful for students who are actually working on a project as this will help guide them to better understand what they will get out of it.

This is the EDTech 3123 classroom online textbook's chapter on Problem Solving, Inquiry Learning, and Games. It was useful with definitions and the role of teachers in different "based" classrooms. It was helpful in finding resources and articles to explain problem-based learning, project-based learning, game-based learning, inquiry-based learning, and gamification.

Wiggio is a website is similar to facebook and twitter and you can work in groups easily, and it is a single website that brings many different aspects together in one simple website. My big campus is a website that makes it easy for teachers to collaborate with other teachers, students, as well as parents. On top of these, my big campus is also great at helping to create lesson plans, and track your students success. Goorulearning is a website that allows teachers and students to learn in new and fun ways. You can gear the quizzes and study guides for the specific grade you are teaching. Mrs. Cornejos blog is a great example of a blog that each person in our group could see using and even gearing our own blogs around. This blog is a great way to keep parents involved in what is happening in the classroom. Mrs. Anderson's website is an example of a wiki website and is similar to a blog and students can get involved as well.

I really like this website because she has so many great ideas and links to other games and websites. I have also used this website for other classes and it has been very helpful.

Gives several examples of project-based learning assignments. Also several videos on project-based learning

I like this website and I'm using an article from it in my lesson this week. I like this article as well because I think it is important that teachers understand the necessity of children learning from every experience they have in the classroom.

Brainpop is a fantastic website that has definitely withstood through time. There are wonderful videos, quizzes and games that cover pretty much any topic imaginable for all age groups.

Students can learn and understand better with animated movies, games, playful assessments, and activities covering Science, Math, History, English. Subscription required.

Rob Miller is a middle school principal in Jenks and has unique and interesting views about the state department, state superintendent, state testing and specifically the A-F report card. His blog is well written and always interesting. Enjoy.

Easy ways to work in groups

Wiggio is a web-based collaboration tool that makes working in groups easy, productive and maybe even fun. This is great for creating a group with all of the parents, the students, or both.

Wiggio is a completely free, online toolkit that makes it easy to work in groups.