Educational Resources
13 great online resources for education.
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The Teaching Channel
A great source of online videos all about education. With categories of videos in math, science, reading, and so much more this site has exactly what any educator might need to improve their classroom. Many videos are online lessons that can be taken directly from the site and used in your classroom. Below is a great example of an online math video!
Khan Academy
Khan Academy gives online video lessons of thousands of topics for free. Through this site students can learn material that was online available in the classroom. With help in nearly every subject imaginable Khan Academy gives students the opportunity to take their education into their own hands and can be a great source for online videos in a flipped classroom. Below is Khan's introduction video he presented on TedTalks.
Edutopia
A connection to social media in order to improve our school districts, classrooms, and teachers. Using the latest research Edutopia promotes what they think are the best proven ways to improve education.
Scoop It
Scoop it describes it's site through 3 easy steps. First find something awesome online or through the scoop it community. Then make it yours by adding your perspective. And finally publish it to your social networking sites!
Voted one of the top educational Wikis!
EDpuzzle
This is a great resource especially for the flipped classroom. On EDpuzzle you can crop online videos, add your voice over the videos, and even embed quizzes at any point to make sure students are getting it. This would be an easy way for teachers to incorporate videos into their lessons without making each one from scratch while keeping their students accountable using the quizzes. Below is a video introduction to EDpuzzle
SchoolTube
For online videos specific to education SchoolTube can't be beat. This site has videos uploaded directly from students and teachers from around the world.
TedTalks
TedTalks is a site devoted to social change in any fashion. However a big topic on the site is education reform and from this they have some truly inspirational videos on ways to improve our schools.
Living up to it's already great reputation the Discovery Channel has a great website devoted entirely to sharing educational resources. Discovery Education has resources for teachers that include full interactive lesson plans, online text books, and games that can be used in the classroom. This site also has a pretty unique resource for administrators as well. Below is the video introduction to the Teacher Center of the Discovery Education Website!