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This afternoon in Raleigh, North Carolina I sat in on a good presentation about YouTube's video editing tools.

The documentary selection in our library is decent, but I often find myself looking online for educational videos and feature-films to show my students. Unfortunately, most online documentaries require you to download the full film and have some sort of torrenting software.

Another chapter in my creative Edupreneur series

I stumbled across Weavly the other day and was astonished by the simplicity and creativity it allowed. It is fun, fast, and requires no downloading or uploading of files. Plus, the interface is simple and user-friendly, as you can see from the screenshot below: Best of all – it’s very easy to use!

Esta semana os presentamos un recurso que puede ser útil para vuestros estudiantes. Se lo podéis recomendar para que practiquen en casa de forma autónoma o podéis explotarlo en clase. Se trata de una serie educativa para aprender idiomas que produjo la RAI (la televisión italiana) entre los años 2000 y 2004. Había cuatro versiones: en inglés, en español, en francés y en alemán. La versión española consta de 13 episodios.

Over the last few days I've featured a couple of free tools for adding interactive elements to your videos. In the last year I've reviewed a few other services and methods for doing the same thing. This is a round-up of the ways that you can add interactive elements to your videos. The first four tools could be used by students to create a series of choose your own adventure videos. These tools could be used by teachers to enhance the short videos that they create for flipped lessons.

This video has been roaming around the internet, and I find it to be engaging, useful and humorous. With the upcoming Papal election, this video is timely, and a great way to explain to students how a person becomes a pope and moves through the rungs of the Catholic ladder. Happy learning-about-the-papacy, y’all!

If you ever have one of those (many) days where you question why you teach, and how you can come back to school the next day, watch this. Inspiration, motivation, encouragement – call it whatever you want, but watch it! Continue reading »

Generation Z, the pluralists or whatever the next generation is to be called will be the first to grow up in a world immersed in digital technologies and most notably, social media. As such, it’s...The post 5 Simple Ways To Get Started With Technology In The Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.