Learning resources
useful youtube videos
There are a, growing, number of youtube videos about education and learning.
Here is a selection that's caught my eye over the last month or so:
- Amazing video about digital literacy, xml and web 2.0 "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us" by Dr. Michael Wesch: "Web 2.0" in just under 5 minutes".
- Information R/evolution by Dr Wesch who writes: "...[the video] explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information."
- "A Vision of Students Today" by Dr Wesch in collaboration with Kansas State University students about the characteristics of how they learn.
- "A vision of K-12 students today" by bjnesbitt, who writes: "This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills."
- "Education today and tomorrow" by Tom Woodward of Henrico County schools in Virginia
- "A Portal to Media Literacy" is a lecture by Dr. Michael Wesch to teachers web2.0 and learning environments (in the US and with graduate students). Quite inspirational at times.
Here is a review of the Michael Wesch lecture by Stephen Abram. Dr Wesch's blog Digital Ethnography is well worth having a look at. - "Pay attention" teachertube says of this: "...created in an effort to motivate teachers to more effectively use technology in their teaching." The music's a bit annoying isn't it? A bit too ponderous for me this one but there are a number of interesting points.
- "Did You Know; Shift Happens - Globalization; Information Age" by Karl Fisch and modified by Scott McLeod. Many similarities between this video and the last.
You might find these useful:
A youtube blog entry about how you can alter a youtube url so that it plays from the point at which you want it to (eg 1 minute 33 seconds into the video)
Also, adding &rel=0 to the URL of a YouTube video suppresses "related videos" (thanks to @dgilmour for that tip).
