T21M3 Management

Finding Multimedia Resources

Creating your own multimedia resources and having students students create digital stories can bring very good educational outcomes, but no teacher has the time to create such resources for every lesson.

With so many web resources we just need a good way of finding them. Here are some suggestions for such searches.

1. Video resources.
   YouTube is an obvious choice but check out https://www.youtube.com/user/teachers and https://www.youtube.com/education.
   Use curated lists of video sites. For example, 8 Places to Find Free Educational Videos. Sites like this are not much use unless they are updated regularly, so use a Google Advanced search (Settings > Advanced search) and set Last Update to Upto a year ago - or even less if necessary).
   Go Chatter Videos is a British organization that provides what it calls "bite-sized videos to get people talking about Jesus." This week's devotional thought came from Go Chatter. One nice feature of Go Chatter is that they offer the option to download videos.
   Khan Academy should be on any list of the best educational video sites.
   iTunes.  Most people think of iTunes only for music but it also provides access to a wide range educational material as well in the podcasts section. iTunes U has been a part of this but this is moving - see this notice.
   TeacherTube and SchoolTube are both video sharing sites specifically for education.
   GodTube is a video sharing site for Christian videos.
   PBS Learning Media has a broad range of videos linked to standards.
   TED Talks and Talks at Google have videos that can be good for inspirational talks or professional development for teachers.
2. Simulations.
   Simulations for the classroom are not as numerous as educational videos and are harder to find. Using a search term like "history simulations" may be helpful but it does seem that there are more simulations available for Science and Math than for other subject areas.
   History Simulations. Includes a Civil War simulation game.
   PhET Interactive Simulations. One of the largest repositories for Science and Math simulations. (Sponsored by the University of Colorado, Boulder.)
   Stellarium is a free open source planetarium app to download ans install for both Windows and MacOS.
   Neave Planetarium is an online planetarium (Requires Flash).

If you have some other suggestions for sources of videos or simulations for classroom use, feel free to add a comment with your suggestion.