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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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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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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Common Craft has just released another In Plain English video - Protecting Reputations Online.

A video that, in line with the New Common Inspection Framework, should be a must viewing for students.

As with all Common Craft videos, Protecting Reputations Online clearly explains concepts in easy-to-understand terms. Protecting Reputations Online explains the risks of posting inappropriate...

• pictures,
• videos, or
• messages

...about yourself (or others) online. The video also tells viewer...

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Kideos is a video website designed with learners under ten years old in mind.

Videos on Kideos are categorized by...

• age appropriateness and
• topic.

The videos, in the main, appear to be via YouTube but they are displayed with the Kideos border which removes...

• advertising and
• YouTube's "related videos" and comments.

Note: users might not be able to access the videos in learning environments that block YouTube. That said Kideos could be a great resource for Family Learning. Learning P...

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I've just found a series of three videos created by YouTube for the purpose of educating learners about online behaviour.

Each of the three videos...

• are roughly two minutes in length
• provides clear narration and visual aids.

The three videos are...

Detecting Lies and Staying True http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXFbQKz3anw
Playing and Staying Safe Online,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ5zJvA0NYY and
Staying Safe on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI2tmiKdPnU

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Common Craft has released a new video - Stock Markets in Plain English.

As usual, Common Craft has taken a potentially confusing topic and boiled it down into clear, easy-to-understand terms.

Stock Markets in Plain English...

• begins with a clear explanation of the differences between a private company and a public company.
• moves on to explain how people can make or lose money in the market.
• concludes with an explanation of the Dow Jones and the S&P 500.

Sadly, the newe...

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Christy Tucker from Experiencing E-Learning has published, in her Experiencing E-Learning Blog, a presentation about the basics of wikis and why they are useful; she has made it with the text-to-movie tool Xtranormal <http://www.xtranormal.com/>.

View "Why a Wiki?" at http://christytucker.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/why-a-wiki/.

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