It contains guides on how to use YouTube in the classroom, as well as curated video playlists that will be suitable for teachers to use. For teachers who have yet to really use YouTube it’s a great place to start. Experienced users may still learn something new.
You can also sign up to the YouTube Teachers Community and receive regular updates from the YouTube team, including tips and tricks for incorporating YouTube in your classroom, best practices from other teachers, and great new content uploaded on YouTube.
According to Mind Shift, the new teachers site is part one of two big YouTube projects for teachers. In the next couple of weeks, a bigger announcement will be made about huge changes that will address many of the concerns teachers have had about using YouTube videos in the classroom.
Don’t forget that there is also YouTube Edu which has lots of educational videos on it as well.
What do you or your students or your kids need to know about math?
What about Introduction to Ratios, or Graphing systems of Inequalities, or Least Common Multiples, or Graphing with Calculus or Introduction to Parametrizing a Surface with Two Parameters, or Sum of Polynomial Roots or Even Rounding Decimals or Solving for a Variable or Undetermined Coefficients or Rhombus Diagonals or Linear Subspaces or Binary Numbers or Introduction to Function Inverses or Basic Probability or Calculating r-Squared or the Ferris Wheel Trig Problem or Exponential Growth Functions?
What about more lessons in Valuation and Investing, Venture Capital and Capital Markets, SAT Preparation, Physics, the Paulson Bailout, Organic Chemistry, History, Problem Solving, Finance, Current Economics, Currency, Cosmology and Astronomy, and Computer Science?
Sal Kahn makes complex subjects simple in his videos. And he's Bill Gates favorite teacher. His site of over 2,400 free videos is partially sponsored by the Gates Foundation.
AND, if you're a teacher or parent, you can direct how your children or students use the site and see what they are completing. The site also includes interactive exercises.
The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.
All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge.
Before televisions appeared in every household in the US, children like Ralphie were huddled around radios to listen to their favorite programs. Long ago those programs stopped being broadcast, but you can still listen to them. The Old Time Radio Network is an online collection of more than 12,000 old radio shows. The catalog is organized alphabetically by program title. Next to each program title you'll find the number of episodes available online. To get started havea listen to Hopalong Cassidy or Abbot and Costello.
Applications for Education
Visit the Old Time Radio Network and check out a recording or two for your next lesson on 20th Century history and culture.
