I love a good video to tie into my lesson plans. Many times I use them to begin lessons so students can get an overview of the concepts I am going to present. One of the Web sites that I have found good videos for Technology concepts is Wydea. This Web site specializes in videos about Science and Technology topics. What they do best is answer the question "How does it work?" Everything from jet engines to E-mail to touch screens, and many more.
Check out this site and find a video to show your class!
Showing posts with label educational videos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label educational videos. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Use YouTube in the Classroom
By now, everyone has heard about YouTube. If you haven't, get out from under the rock you have been hiding and go check it out. YouTube has videos for almost any topic you can think of; some are silly and some are inappropriate, but many of them are fantastic teaching tools. Current event videos, informational videos, and especially (my favorite) software tutorials are among videos that can be used in your classroom. For example. . .
After Spring break, our Intro to Computers classes are doing a brief unit on computer hardware. Using YouTube, I was able to find three great videos for that unit. Computer Hardware in Plain English, What Components are Inside My Computer, and one on How to Install Computer Memory. I found them in less than five minutes. Not bad! Now I can talk about the concept of computer hardware with my students, and also show them a video each day to help them grasp the concepts.
Like some of you, I am very leery about just linking to resources on the Web, especially if I really like them. You never know when someone is going to remove information or change an address rendering my link useless. So, if I find a video to use in the classroom, I use a great Web site called KeepVid to let me download and save videos from YouTube or Google Video to my computer. That way, I always have them. If YouTube is blocked at your school, you can use KeepVid at home and then take the videos into school to use in class. You can download a free Flash video player here.
I have included a video below that I made with Camtasia to show how easy downloading a video off of YouTube can be. Enjoy.
Now head on over to YouTube, find a video to use in class, and use KeepVid.com to download it. Good luck!
Todd
Edit:
I love to learn new things! None other than Kathy Schrock just e-mailed to let me know that "The YouTube user agreement clearly outlines use of YouTube videos are to be embedded or used on their site. There is no provision for downloading locally."
Furthermore, Kathy has "been in contact with the YouTube team, asking about the fair use guidelines, and they agree that the best thing to do is to ask the person who created the video for permission to "rip" the video as you suggest and/or ask them to send you the original, since it is of better quality anyhow."
Another great lesson to use with our students when talking about copyright issues and online materials. Thanks for the information Kathy!
After Spring break, our Intro to Computers classes are doing a brief unit on computer hardware. Using YouTube, I was able to find three great videos for that unit. Computer Hardware in Plain English, What Components are Inside My Computer, and one on How to Install Computer Memory. I found them in less than five minutes. Not bad! Now I can talk about the concept of computer hardware with my students, and also show them a video each day to help them grasp the concepts.
Like some of you, I am very leery about just linking to resources on the Web, especially if I really like them. You never know when someone is going to remove information or change an address rendering my link useless. So, if I find a video to use in the classroom, I use a great Web site called KeepVid to let me download and save videos from YouTube or Google Video to my computer. That way, I always have them. If YouTube is blocked at your school, you can use KeepVid at home and then take the videos into school to use in class. You can download a free Flash video player here.
I have included a video below that I made with Camtasia to show how easy downloading a video off of YouTube can be. Enjoy.
Now head on over to YouTube, find a video to use in class, and use KeepVid.com to download it. Good luck!
Todd
Edit:
I love to learn new things! None other than Kathy Schrock just e-mailed to let me know that "The YouTube user agreement clearly outlines use of YouTube videos are to be embedded or used on their site. There is no provision for downloading locally."
Furthermore, Kathy has "been in contact with the YouTube team, asking about the fair use guidelines, and they agree that the best thing to do is to ask the person who created the video for permission to "rip" the video as you suggest and/or ask them to send you the original, since it is of better quality anyhow."
Another great lesson to use with our students when talking about copyright issues and online materials. Thanks for the information Kathy!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Welcome to the adventure!
Welcome to Paul and Todd’s Excellent Ed Tech Adventure!
We hope that you find the information posted here to be most excellent. Our goal is to provide educators with a resource that they can visit to find out more about using technology in the classroom. Topics that we will cover in the coming months include great education videos from the Web, lesson plans, projects, software, book, and product reviews, Web 2.0 tools, great links, and much more! Save us to your favorites and visit us each week for ideas you can put to work in your classroom right away. As we begin our blogging journey, we are hoping to post new information on a weekly basis and hopefully add more posts as time allows. We still have to teach our classes. :) If you have questions or would like us to talk about a specific topic in one of our upcoming posts, drop us an e-mail.
A little bit about us. Paul and I (Todd) are computer teachers at Sparta High School in Sparta, Michigan. This is my 19th year in education and Paul’s 25th. Between us, we have taught classes in Introduction to Computers, Desktop publishing, Computer Programming, Website Design, Digital Graphics/Multimedia, and Microsoft Certification. Feel free to look around our Websites linked on the right.
Welcome to the adventure and come back soon!
We hope that you find the information posted here to be most excellent. Our goal is to provide educators with a resource that they can visit to find out more about using technology in the classroom. Topics that we will cover in the coming months include great education videos from the Web, lesson plans, projects, software, book, and product reviews, Web 2.0 tools, great links, and much more! Save us to your favorites and visit us each week for ideas you can put to work in your classroom right away. As we begin our blogging journey, we are hoping to post new information on a weekly basis and hopefully add more posts as time allows. We still have to teach our classes. :) If you have questions or would like us to talk about a specific topic in one of our upcoming posts, drop us an e-mail.
A little bit about us. Paul and I (Todd) are computer teachers at Sparta High School in Sparta, Michigan. This is my 19th year in education and Paul’s 25th. Between us, we have taught classes in Introduction to Computers, Desktop publishing, Computer Programming, Website Design, Digital Graphics/Multimedia, and Microsoft Certification. Feel free to look around our Websites linked on the right.
Welcome to the adventure and come back soon!
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