ICT in Schools Bulletin
April 2015
Using Video Special
There are some excellent educational resources on You Tube. However, many teachers cannot access You Tube in their classrooms, and many more are cautious of displaying additional content such as adverts. There are a number of ways of making sure that videos are safe, non more important than simply making sure you have watched all of the clip yourself to establish it's suitability in your classroom.
This Newsletter special edition looks at other ways to use video safely - and we've compiled a list of other places to find educational videos that don't rely on You Tube.
Join You Tube for Schools
Sign up for YouTube for Schools to bring the power of video to your classrooms free of charge. Access thousands of free, high-quality educational videos on YouTube in a controlled environment. Learn more here.
YouTube for Schools: Join the Global Classroom Today!
Embed a You Tube video into a Google Slides presentation.
Google Slides - Tutorial 02 - Insert a background and Video
When you present the slide show play full screen which should eliminate any advertisements etc showing beneath the video.
Some alternative sites to You Tube
School Tube
School Tube is a website dedicated to the sharing of videos created by students and teachers. School Tube allows teachers and schools to create their own channels for sharing their students' works. School Tube also provides excellent how-to resources, copyright-friendly media, and lesson plans for using video in the classroom.
Teacher Tube
Teacher Tube has been around for a while now, but I still run into teachers who have not heard of it. Teacher Tube provides user generated videos for teachers by teachers. Many of the videos on Teacher Tube have teachers sharing lesson plans in action. Some videos on Teacher Tube are simply inspirational. And other videos don't have teachers or students in them, but contain educational lessons none the less.
Next Vista
Next Vista is a nonprofit, advertising-free video sharing site run by Google Certified Teacher Rushton Hurley. Next Vista has three video categories: Global Views, Seeing Service and Light Bulbs. The Light Bulbs category is for videos that teach you how to do something and or provides an explanation of a topic.
Academic Earth is a video depot for individual lectures and entire courses from some of the top universities in the United States. Visitors to Academic Earth will find lectures and courses from Yale, MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford.
Snag Films is a place to watch full length documentaries from producers like National Geographic for free. This can also now be accessed on any Smart TV as well.
TED Talks are a great source of inspirational, thought-provoking, educational, and entertaining presentations given by some of the world's leading experts on a wide variety of topics.
BrainPOP
Learn about you body, space, science and health. Have homework questions answered with a movie, ask for advice, or just browse and learn. Some free content.
Wired Science
Wired Science has hundreds of videos addressing a variety of science and technology topics. In addition to the library of videos, Wired Science, has great articles and lists of science resources.
CBBC
CBBC - Children's BBC offers a lot of animations and movies for kids.
Kids National Geographic
Kids National Geographic is specifically aimed at KS1 and KS2.
National Geographic
Great source of natural history videos.
The Khan Academy is a great place for teachers, students, and parents to find high quality online instruction in maths, science, and social science topics. If you like the Khan Academy's excellent videos and online lessons then you're probably going to like the Khan App. The Khan App is a free app for the iPhone, the iPad, and Android-powered devices. The Khan App provides access to the same videos and lessons you can find on the Khan Academy website. The Khan App is available through education section of the Open App Marketplace.
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more.
Literacy Shed
A big favourite with us, this fabulous website not only does literacy but also has a shed for Computing, History and Maths. All the resources are short films checked out for use in the classroom.
Some other ways to make You Tube safer.
Quiet Tube
Quietube is a handy little browser extension that removes all the clutter from YouTube allowing you to view only your selected video. Quietube removes all advertising, sidebar content, comments, and ratings. Installing Quietube requires nothing more than dragging the Quietube button to your toolbar. Then anytime that you're on YouTube click the Quietube button to remove all of the clutter and just watch your selected video.
Safe Share
SafeShare.tv makes it possible to view YouTube videos without displaying the related videos and associated comments. To use SafeShare.tv simply copy the url of a YouTube video and paste it into SafeShare.tv.
Cleaner You Tube
A Cleaner YouTube is a browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Once installed A Cleaner YouTube allows you to display YouTube videos without any of the "related videos," comments, or display advertising. There are other tools that do the same thing, but what makes A Cleaner YouTube different is that not only can you display videos without the related materials, but you can also search YouTube without viewing any of the "related videos," comments, suggested videos, or advertisements.
Some Apps that are good!
YouTube Kids
The official You Tube app is designed for kids. It is full of age-appropriate videos, channels and playlists.
Kids Flix
Like Netflix but for kids with loads of animated shows.
Kids Video
Kids Tube
Easy to navigate and fun for KS1.
Mineflix
Kid safe Minecraft videos.
Vine
Vine makes video fun. You can watch, create and share short looping videos -- anytime, anywhere. Through these videos, called Vines, people have an entirely new medium to express themselves and their creativity. Vine empowers anyone to share stories with the world and is a space where people can connect, entertain and be entertained.
And some of the bad!
Play Tube
Has facility to stream unfiltered video live.
Hot Tube / Flash Tube
These both appear on app store search for safe kids video channels. Neither are affected when restrictions are set for PG.
RedTube.com
Adult site with highly inappropriate video and images.