Video Watch
Welcome to Video Watch, our look at instructional and educationally-focused videos that we think will interest you. Just click and watch!
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Video of the Week
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Weebly for Education (education.weebly.com) is free and allows teachers to easily create class websites and blogs. Students can also be added to class accounts in order to develop e-portfolios or to publish website assigned projects. To build a website simply drag and drop desired content elements on to your page, things like text, photos, maps, and videos. At any time you can change the theme, add pages, RSS feeds, a blog page, forms, surveys and more from the multitude of readymade fields. Hierarchy can be added to the pages by dragging the page tab left or right then back on the home screen, the page will appear under a page heading or alongside the main elements. When you’re ready, publish your creation. You can even publish to your own domain if you already have one.
Added: 27/11/2012
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Its the application you know and love for the Mac, completely reworked from the ground up for iPad. Documents look stunning on the bright, vivid iPad display. And writing is a dream with the large onscreen keyboard. You can use Apple-designed templates and Multi-Touch gestures to lay out letters, flyers, brochures, reports, and more. With Pages for iPad, its never been easier to create great-looking documents, all with the touch of a finger.
Posted: 30/11/2011
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Blurts is an easy way to instantly add "color" to any shared content: a photo, video, tweet, sms, email, comment — by tagging it with a 30 second spoken story, description or anecdote.
Posted: 30/11/2011
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And finally, a sex talk with a difference. Despite her best efforts, comedian Julia Sweeney is forced to tell a little white lie when her eight-year-old begins learning about frog reproduction … and starts to ask some very smart questions.
Posted: 30/11/2011
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Indian education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education – the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionise how we think about teaching.
Posted: 30/11/2011
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Celebrated ‘Net’ lawyer Larry Lessig cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the ‘ASCAP cartel’ in his TED Talk argument for reviving our creative culture. It looks great discussion starter on issues of copyright.
Posted: 30/11/2011
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Tribute video Apple has posted a tribute video to company co-founder Steve Jobs. A celebration of Steve’s Life was a special service filmed live at the Apple campus in California. fizurl.com/stevejobs
Posted: 30/11/2011
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Posted: 13/11/2011
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Tagged is a short film for teenagers that encourage them to discuss the ethical obligations of going online. It explores issues like cyberbullying, managing digital reputations, and how online interactions may have real-life consequences. It’s accompanied by lesson plans and fascinating hindsight character interviews.
Posted: 27/10/2011
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Have you ever wondered how to download and share digital content legally? How do you let people know that you want them to reuse your own work? Creative Commons licences can help you do both – this video summarises the types of licences that are available.
Posted: 27/10/2011
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How could schools look and work in the future? In this six-minute presentation, Geoff Mulgan gives an introduction to the Studio School, a new kind of school in the UK where small teams of kids learn by working on projects that are, as he puts it, “for real”.
Posted: 27/10/2011
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