If you haven’t ever used Google Forms before, it is a fantastic way to gather data, manage surveys and assess students online. Recently, the fine folks at Google added another feature to make this platform more robust: embedded images. You can now insert images from your computer or online into your forms with ease! Check … Continue reading »
Category Archives: Videos to Watch
How To Create A Strong Password: Video Tutorials By Google & Mozilla
As the person in charge of resetting student passwords for the school, you can guess that I often have parents and teachers coming to me asking me how their students can create strong, secure passwords. I’m working on creating a post that outlines this in more detail, probably in a printable handout, but for now, … Continue reading »
Periodic Table of Videos
The Period Table of Videos, true to its name, is a website that features 118 videos (one per major element). The videos include introductory information as well as interesting and engaging experiments, conducted by a team of chemists from the University of Nottingham in collaboration with BBC. Although they now have a complete table of … Continue reading »
The Entire Known Universe in 6 Minutes and 29 Seconds
The Known Universe video below completely blew my mind! It takes viewers from the Himalayas into the atmosphere and across space to the edge of our known universe. The accuracy and visualization of each star, planet, and beautiful piece of space viewed here are possible because of the Digital Universe Atlas, the world’s most complete … Continue reading »
Top 10 Most Popular TED-Ed Lessons
The fine folks at TED recently published an updated list of the 10 most popular TED-Ed videos to date, which range from topics such as plankton, atoms, and alien life forms. These videos are spectacular demonstrations of educators across the globe sharing the expertise with the world. In essence, they are flipped videos for the general … Continue reading »
10 Places to Find Documentaries Online
The documentary selection in our library is decent, but I often find myself looking online for educational videos and feature-films to show my students. Unfortunately, most online documentaries require you to download the full film and have some sort of torrenting software. So, to make the search easier, I’ve compiled a list of 10 places … Continue reading »
How To Become A Pope: Animated Video
This video has been roaming around the internet, and I find it to be engaging, useful and humorous. With the upcoming Papal election, this video is timely, and a great way to explain to students how a person becomes a pope and moves through the rungs of the Catholic ladder. Happy learning-about-the-papacy, y’all! Continue reading »
A Visual Adaption of Sir Ken Robinson’s TED Talk
TED Talks are great resources for inspiration in the classroom, but sometimes my students struggle with focusing their attention on one person talking for so long. So, when I found this clever animation that visually articulates the information from a TED talk, I had to share! This one was given by Sir Ken Robinson, a world-renowned … Continue reading »
What Teacher’s Make – Save For A Rainy Day
If you ever have one of those (many) days where you question why you teach, and how you can come back to school the next day, watch this. Inspiration, motivation, encouragement – call it whatever you want, but watch it! Continue reading »
Enhanced State of the Union 2013 Video
If you missed President Obama’s State of the Union speech or want to share it with your students, check out this enhanced version of the video footage. As you can see, Obama’s staff at the White House has included key statistics and data alongside the video so viewers can get a better understanding of Obama’s … Continue reading »
