aclJohn's Video Finds

YouTube Teachers is a new YouTube channel launched by YouTube itself.

Its aim? - to inform teachers about the many ways that they can use videos in their learning environments.

YouTube Teacher features...

• - video-based lesson plan suggestions,
• -suggested playlists for a variety of content areas, and
• -suggestions for creating videos with learners.

YouTube Teachers won't fix the problem of access to it being restricted by many learning providers, but it could help show some decision-makers the educat...
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If your learners are, in general, assessed/taught in a one-to-one environment, using Watch2gether could be a good way to share educational videos with them all and have short discussions or Q&A sessions about them.

Watch2gether is another website through which Practitioners and learners can watch YouTube videos and host text chats about them at the same time.

To use Watch2gether...

• Enter a "nickname" for yourself (it could be your real name)
• Search for a video or enter the url of a video that you...

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Turn Your YouTube/Facebook Video Into an Interactive Video or Advert For Free

Viewbix allows you to easily overlay any YouTube or Facebook video and create an interactive video or video ad unit...

Try it out at http://www.viewbix.com/#page=edit/infoForm.

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Bundlr is a new web service that aims to let people organize web content in a logical way. Essentially, users of Bundlr can take content from all over the Internet and have it aggregated in a location of its own.

Visit http://www.gobundlr.com/ to find out more.

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This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award. Thanks to Bill Pearson, Functional Skills Coordinator at Reaseheath College, for pointing out this clip.


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Khan Academy <http://www.khanacademy.org/> now has has more than 1800 mathematics and science tutorial videos online; There are also some humanities videos.

Khan Academy can be accessed via...

• YouTube Channel <http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy>;

• iTunes U. Khan <http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewiTunesUInstitution?id=391034778>;

• Curriki <http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Group_KhanAcademyMathGroup/Curriculum>; and Finally...

...Khan Academy can be downloaded onto...
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Free Video Lectures provides access to more than 18,000 video lectures from more than 700 courses offered by some of the world's top colleges and universities.

While practitioners could access the same content by searching the web, Free Video Lectures puts the content in one place for practitioners and their learners to access.  

The Free Video Lectures library can be searched by subject and/or university. The video sources are a mix of YouTube and other providers. Many of the videos ar...

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Teaching Videos is a collection of educational videos that practitioners can use to support learning in their learning environment. Videos are submitted by practitioners who have found them useful in their own teaching.

Users can...

• register and collect favourite videos; as well as
  
• share videos that they have found useful.

Please be aware that some learning provider networks might block YouTube or other embedded videos, so check this before using them in your teaching & Learning!

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