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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
Weebly for Education (education.weebly.com)  
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
Want to know more about a piece of music?  
WhoSampled (whosampled.com) is a database on sampled music, remixes and cover songs that lets you research and explore links among more than 130,000 songs and 48,000 artists. Anyone can submit information and, subject to approval, it’s published on the site to be discovered and discussed.
Posted: 23/03/2012
 
How to Create an Animoto Video  
Animoto allows you to orchestrate unique video slideshows using images, photos, music, video clips, and text. This tool is fantastic for students presenting information gathered during research or to share answers, photos from a class trip, even ideas about maths in nature. Being able to add text allows students to give more information, definitions, descriptions and facts. Once they have produced their video, teachers will receive an email on student activity in order to monitor progress.
Posted: 23/03/2012
 
Introducing Quizlet  
Quizlet is an online learning tool for making flashcards and study games. Originally created by a 15-year-old high school student to aid his own study, the site has 2.8 million registered users and more than 10 million free sets of flashcards covering most subjects.
Posted: 23/03/2012
 
Did You Know; Shift Happens – Globalisation; Information Age  
Created by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod; Globalization and The Information Age
Posted: 23/03/2012
 
Education Iowa: Understanding Context and History  
In this video, Dr Trace Pickering highlights the history of education and place the system we put in place to educate children. To understand systems you must understand the interplay between: CONTEXT, FUNCTION, STRUCTURE, and PROCESS. Failure to understand these 3 system elements results in feckless improvement initiatives, legislation,and reform efforts.
Posted: 23/03/2012
 
Funda.co.nz  
Find out how Funda works with this video. Students and parents can join your fundraisers to help spread the message to their Facebook, Twitter and email friends. For more information about Funda go to funda.co.nz
Posted: 23/03/2012
 
Students aiming for space  
Two Auckland Grammar School students are semi-finalists in the YouTube Space Lab, a global science competition that challenged 14-18 year-olds to design a science experiment that can be performed in space. Patrick Zeng and Derek Chan won the Asia Pacific category in the 14-16 Year section. The six regional winning teams are visiting Washington DC this month for a series of activities and events to honor their achievements, including a ZERO-G Flight. The two global winners will have their experiments performed 250 miles above Earth aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and live streamed on YouTube as part of a global event celebrating science and space.
Posted: 23/03/2012
 
myPLS and Southern Cross Catholic Vocational College - e-journaling  
SCCVC staff and students talk about e-journaling on Editure’s Learning Management System myPLS.
Posted: 23/03/2012
 
myPLS and Southern Cross Catholic Vocational College - e-journaling  
SCCVC staff and students talk about e-journaling on Editure’s Learning Management System myPLS.
Posted: 23/03/2012
 
Possibilities with Gesture control technology  
We have explored using the Microsoft xbox Kinect for usage in everyday tasks and some ideas for the future.
Posted: 12/03/2012