Videos in the Classroom
Posted by mrwaddell on 25 June, 2009
This post from Free Technology for Teachers made me think about the videos I use in my classroom. In it, they go through over 30 different ways to get video for the classroom. Some are better than others, but they annotate the sources to the quality and content.
From these sources, I use TED and YouTube and Vimeo the most. Neither TED or Vimeo is blocked by my school district, so they are easy to use, but YouTube requires some … er … massaging to get the videos. To get the videos from YouTube I have been using KeepVid. It works well for me, allowing me to save the videos in MP4 format and drop them into iTunes and play them on my iPod I have connected to my projector.
It has worked well, allowing me to have around 70 videos by the end of the year ready to go. This summer I am working on identifying another 70 or so and building my collection to use.
This is one of them. The Sixth Sense project. If you haven’t seen it. Do so. Now. Don’t wait. It is short, and worth every second.
Free Technology for Teachers has a lot of links that I never knew about, so it will be fun to explore them and find more good math videos to use.
Here is one that will make your math class groan. I love it!
