free educational videos made for children, and making them findable and watchable on one website. Then imagine creating many, many more such videos.
hundreds of thousands of great short videos, and other media, explaining every topic taught in schools, in every major language on Earth.
deeply and usefully categorized according to subject, education level, and placed in the order in which topics are typically taught.
WatchKnow--as in, "You watch, you know"--is trying to do this.
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"TeacherPlus Account A single teacher account gets unlimited access to all GoAnimate4Schools features, The teacher can also post animations to GoAnimate4Schools public gallery. Students accounts have access to following features: - Make animation up to 2 minutes long - Upload own music - Text-to-voice and voice recording "
Not Even Past provides current historical writing to a popular audience. For history buffs who want reading recommendations and short, interesting, digestible stories every day, the website offers a meaningful, dynamic, and ongoing conversation about History in the form of text, audio, and video histories on subjects that span the globe. The site is designed for anyone who is interested in history, from an avid reader of history to a history film aficionado
It's important to match the tools used to teach information literacy with the level of the students.
Developed by educators, the Big6 includes many tools and lessons for the teacher. Written by librarians at Cardiff University, the Handbook of Information Literacy Teaching or HILT has many helpful tips, handouts and lesson plans.
The 21st Century Information Fluency portal has created online games and tutorials for many different level of student.
PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.
"Today students have the ability to view and read historical documents first hand, 'interact' with historical characters, and observe the events of the past through the eyes of the children who lived it. Thanks to technology, students can be truly engaged in the stories of history. "
Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
Since I spent nineteen years as a community organizer prior to becoming a public school teacher, I feel pretty strongly that one of the key purposes of schools
"US History Tours powered by Google Earth. This new format traces historical developments across time, touching down on locations vital to our nation's heritage and development. Points of interest in each tour launch primary and multimedia sources."
a collection of Online Resources by Subject Area. This list is NOT exhaustive, but is a great start for incorporating stimulating (online) exercises into your teaching
Interesting idea, lots of material.
Helium is also a knowledge co-operative where our writers are also our editors who read and rate every article on the site.
At Helium, we believe that everyone can contribute what they know to share with millions of readers around the globe.
At Helium, we believe readers want a choice of viewpoints - not just one opinion on any subject.
"the Virtual Cell Animation Collection!
This collection has been developed to introduce students to new concepts. By walking through the still images and movie included for each topic, viewers are in control of choosing the learning style that best fits their needs."
"Mesopotamia, an ancient Greek term meaning "the land between rivers," is considered to be the cradle of civilization because this is where we find the origins of agriculture, written language, and cities.Chosen from the Mesopotamian collection of the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago, this website tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia now present-day Iraq - a story shared by all humans. Learn more about Life in Mesopotamia. "