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Use something other than YouTube!!!

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Use the search engine below to find educational videos that are not hosted on YouTube.

Some excellent educational content can be found on YouTube. However, many teachers cannot access YouTube in their classrooms. Therefore, I compiled a list of other places to find educational videos that don't rely on YouTube.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Next Vista is a nonprofit, advertising-free video sharing site run by Google Certified Teacher Rushton Hurley. Next Vista has three video categories. The Light Bulbs category is for videos that teach you how to do something and or provides an explanation of a topic. The Global Views video category contains videos created to promote understanding of cultures around the world. The Seeing Service video category highlights the work of people who are working to make a difference in the lives of others. Watch this interview I did with Rushton to learn more about Next Vista.

4. 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.

Read the rest of list of Alternatives to YouTube here.

And if you are fortunate enough to work in a school that allows you to use YouTube, you still might want to use View Pure, Safe Share, or A Cleaner Internet to prevent the accidental display of inappropriate "related" videos or advertisements.

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Use the search engine below to find educational videos that are not hosted on YouTube. Some excellent educational content can be found on YouTube. However, many teachers cannot access YouTube in their classrooms. Therefore, I compiled a list of other places to find educational videos that don't rely on YouTube.

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5 Tools Students Can Use to Create Alternative Book Reports

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This afternoon someone emailed me asking for some suggestions for tools for creating book trailer videos. It has been two years since I last wrote about the topic so I created a new list of tools for creating book trailers. Book trailers are short videos designed to spark a viewer's interest in a book. Having students create book trailers is an excellent alternative to traditional book report projects. A great place to find examples of book trailers is Book Trailers for Readers.

Animoto makes it possible to quickly create a video using still images, music, video clips, and text. If you can make a slideshow presentation, you can make a video using Animoto. Animoto's free service limits you to 30 second videos. You can create longer videos if you apply for an education account.

WeVideo is a collaborative online video creation tool. In the video editor you can upload your own media clips or use stock media clips to produce your video. The video editor provides tools for trimming the length of display and or sound of each element you add to your video project. What makes WeVideo collaborative is that you can invite other people to create and edit with you. The WeVideo Google Drive app allows you to save all of your video projects in your Google Drive account. WeVideo also offers an Android app that students can use to capture images and video footage to add to their projects.

Pixntell is an iPad app for quickly creating simple narrated photostories. To create a story using Pixntell all that you need to do is start a new project, select some images, place them in order, and then start talking about each of your pictures. You control the timing for each image. If you want to talk about your first picture for twenty seconds, your second picture for just three seconds, and your third picture for fifteen seconds, you can do that. When your project is complete you can upload it directly to YouTube, share it on Facebook, or send to friends via email.

Narrable is a neat service for creating short narrated slideshows. To create an audio slideshow on Narrable start by uploading some pictures that you either want to talk about or have music played behind. After the pictures are uploaded you can record a narration for each picture through your computer's microphone or by calling into your Narrable's access phone number. You can also upload an audio recording that is stored on your computer. Narrable projects can be shared via email, Facebook, or by embedding them into a blog.

Wideo is a service that allows anyone to create animated videos and Common Craft-style videos online. You can create an animated video on Wideo by dragging and dropping elements into place in the Wideo editor then setting the sequence of animations. Each element can be re-used as many times as you like and the timing of the animation of each image can individually adjusted. Wideo's stock elements include text, cartoons, and drawings. You can also upload your own images to use in your videos. Wideo could be used by students to animate the highlights of a book that they've read.

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5 Tools Students Can Use to Create Alternative Book Reports

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This afternoon someone emailed me asking for some suggestions for tools for creating book trailer videos. It has been two years since I last wrote about the topic so I created a new list of tools for creating book trailers. Book trailers are short videos designed to spark a viewer's interest in a book.

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I discovered a great article on Free4Teachers about  Using Contemporary  Music to teach Historical Events.  Bryne provided a wide range of songs and explained their historical references.

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I found this link to Richard Byrne's blog very interesting. It provides a variety of test questions both multiple choice and short answer types all aligned with Common Core. The most interesting part to me is that, they can all be customized to your needs and taste.

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What I found interesting is the three things to consider when planning a video project because I do video projects alot and I want to make sure the do things correctly to help the students to be successful in making their videos.

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This afternoon at the TICL conference I gave a short presentation about classroom video projects. Part of that presentation is a short list of things to consider when planning a video project.

1. The first consideration is what you want your students to demonstrate through their videos. This will help to determine which video production tools your students will use. For example, if you want your students to demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of Manifest Destiny then you'll probably want them to create longer documentary-style videos by using a tool like WeVideo. On the other hand, if you just want your students to share some highlights of their field trips then a simple tool like Animoto might be adequate.

2. Your students' skill level with video editing tools. Early in the school year when my students don't have a lot of experience with video production tools, I like to start them out with relatively simple tools. Then as they year progresses I introduce them to move complex tools.

3. Be concise. Last year Wistia published some interesting data that revealed that people are more likely to watch multiple short videos all the way through than one longer video of equivalent length. Consider having your students use the YouTube annotations tool to create a series of linked, short videos about a topic rather than one long video. Directions for doing this can be found here.

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Three Things to Consider When Planning Video Projects

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This afternoon at the TICL conference I gave a short presentation about classroom video projects. Part of that presentation is a short list of things to consider when planning a video project. 1. The first consideration is what you want your students to demonstrate through their videos.

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I posted the link below and found this site informative and useful as I need to learn more about the technology that can be utilized as an elementary school teacher.  I like this book of web tools and how it shows pictures of exactly how to use each tool.

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Program allows you to create a multimedia e-book.

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My Ebook is a new service for creating rich multimedia ebooks. My Ebook allows users to create ebooks that contain text, images, and videos on each page. My Ebook users can create ebooks from scratch or upload their existing PDF files to display in a book format. The PDF option reminds me of the Yudu ebook service that I wrote about last year.

When starting an ebook from scratch on My Ebook, users can import images from their Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, and Photobucket accounts or upload new images directly to My Ebook. If you don't have any digital images you can select some from My Ebook's gallery. Videos can also be embedded into the pages of My Ebook. My Ebook provides a good variety of themes and templates to give each ebook a different look and feel. Ebooks created using My Ebook can be embedded into blogs and websites or shared via email.

Applications for Education
My Ebook provides a good platform on which students can create ebooks on just about any topic. Rather than writing a traditional report, students can create a book that includes the traditional "report paper" as well as video and images to complement the report. If you wanted to build an online gallery of your students' work you could have them embed their finished ebooks into a blog or wiki.

One word of caution, you may not want to let your students browse the library of ebooks without supervision. I didn't see anything that was explicitly bad (the terms of service forbid that type of content) but there is some material that you might not want middle school students accessing.

Yudu is a related resource that may be of interest to you.

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My Ebook is a new service for creating rich multimedia ebooks. My Ebook allows users to create ebooks that contain text, images, and videos on each page. My Ebook users can create ebooks from scratch or upload their existing PDF files to display in a book format.

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Games that I may want to use in my weather unit. The games looked age approriate.

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national oceanic and atmospheric administration

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This arcade is a portal to games and interactive activities focused on ocean and air themes. It highlights the science and the activities of the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and other agencies and organizations promoting environmental stewardship.

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I found a great site for videos that aren't on utube but I am having trouble with my computer so I may not be able to post the link

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I took a look at the ability to create presentations and quizzes on Edmodo.  The demo looks like this tool can be very useful in the classroom, but I have one major issue with it.  To use the application it costs you $30 which is ridiculous because free is for me.  I hope that they create a free app for this because sometimes creating quizzes in edmodo can be difficult for something like math and you want the student to use a formula or equation.

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Soo Meta is a great tool for creating multimedia presentations and quizzes. I tried it for the first time back in March and it has only improved since then. Today, I learned that Soo Meta is available in Edmodo. So if you use Edmodo and you want to create multimedia presentations and quizzes or you want your students to create them, that can happen by using Edmodo log-in credentials.

Soo Meta allows you to combine videos from YouTube, pictures from the web or from your desktop, text, and voice recordings to create a presentation. You can also pull content in from Pinterest and Twitter to use in your final product. Soo Meta also allows you to insert a quiz into your projects. This means that people viewing your Soo Meta projects can watch a short video clip then answer questions about it before moving onto the next part of the presentation.
Applications for Education
Soo Meta could be a good tool for creating short flipped lessons for your students. You could have students create projects in which they create book trailers using video clips, images, and their voices. Students could use Soo Meta to create a digital collage of media around a current events topic that they're studying. Soo Meta might also be used by students to create a showcase of their best digital works of the semester.

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Create Multimedia Presentations & Quizzes in Edmodo

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Soo Meta is a great tool for creating multimedia presentations and quizzes. I tried it for the first time back in March and it has only improved since then. Today, I learned that Soo Meta is available in Edmodo.

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Little bit of technical difficulties here, but let's see how this works.  This video showing how to create videos will be incredibly helpful to me.  Hope you like it, too.

http://www.slideshare.net/rbyrnetech/video-creation-in-the-classroom

This is an actual slide production that has great links to all the video creation tools.

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This definitely would be great to use with parents. I can email documents that would be too big for email so the parents have access to materials we are using at school for the home.

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WeTransfer - Transfer Files Quickly & Easily

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There are lots of ways to transfer files that are too big for many email services. Many of the alternatives to emailing files require that t...

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This page is designed to introduce and show you how to use various free video creation resources.

The process of creating and publishing videos can be a great way to get students excited about researching, storytelling, and sharing their work with an audience. For teachers who have never facilitated video creation projects in their classrooms, choosing the right style of video and the right tools can be a bit confusing at first. To help bring clarity to the styles and tools, I have a rather simple outline that I use in my video creation workshops. That outline with suggested tools for creating videos in each style is included in the PDF embedded below. You can download the PDF here.

The playlist embedded below demonstrates many of the tools featured in the PDF above.

The playlist embedded below demonstrates how to create flipped video lessons.

Click here to learn how to create choose your own adventure videos in YouTube.

WeVideo is probably the most robust online video editing program that you will find accessible to students. The playlist below provides a series of tutorials to help you get started using it.

Shadow Puppet Edu makes it easy to create a video on an iPad. An overview of the app is embedded below.

Wideo is a great tool for creating animated videos online. The webinar recording embedded below provides a detailed overview of how to use the service.

Once your students have created their videos you will want them to share them. You could use YouTube for that or you could try one of the methods featured below.

Google Apps for Education users can have students upload their videos to Google Drive and then share them just as they would share any other file in Google Drive. The videos will play in Google Drive. Complete directions for that process can be found here.

One of the many features of Padlet is the option to upload files to any note on a Padlet wall. If your students have made short videos or compressed the file, they can upload their videos directly to notes on a Padlet wall.

Dropbox users can utilize DropItToMe to have students upload video files to a Dropbox folder. DROPitTOme is a free service that works with Dropbox to allow people to upload files to your Dropbox account without giving them access to the contents of your Dropbox account. DROPitTOme works by synchronizing with your Dropbox account. After connecting the two services DROPitTOme provides a url that you can give to others to upload files to your Dropbox account. You must specify a password that has to be entered before an upload can take place. Give the url and password to those people you want to be able to upload files to your Dropbox account.

If your students are using iPads that are on running the latest OS they can use the AirDrop feature to share their videos with you and with each other.

Finally, students who have created videos that teach a lesson can upload those videos to Next Vista for Learning. Next Vista does review the videos to make sure they meet the content guidelines before they go live on the web.

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This page is designed to introduce and show you how to use various free video creation resources. The process of creating and publishing videos can be a great way to get students excited about researching, storytelling, and sharing their work with an audience.

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What I found interesting is GoSoapBox.  I like that it has an open ended discussion component as well as the confusion meter.  I will definitely look into this for use in my lessons.

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GoSoapBox: Hear What Your Students are Thinking

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GoSoapBox is a web-based clicker tool used by educators around the world to keep students engaged and gain real-time insight into student comprehension.

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I think that the Google Drive Doc is interesting. I might use it to collaborate with another French teacher, and we plan to share file from which we make activities for class.

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Animoto

You can record videos with your phone, take pictures, etc. and upload them on Animoto and add your own personal touch. My students may enjoy making a highlight video of all the sports we cover throughout the year.  http://animoto.com/

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I can use creating videos to demonstrate  how students can take this and have students create their own videos.

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http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/06/icelandic-17-other-languages-added-to.html

Languages supported:

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/75940?hl=en&ctx=cb&src=cb&cbid=ag4xz4xgiwwy&cbrank=2

This is interesting to remember when looking for using Padlet or other tech tools in your room and communicating with students in another country. They added 18 languages just yesterday, making their total 65.

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GoSoapBox

This would be perfect for polling the school for data to use the statistics and probability standards.

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GoSoapBox: Hear What Your Students are Thinking

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GoSoapBox is a web-based clicker tool used by educators around the world to keep students engaged and gain real-time insight into student comprehension.