VITAL: Video in Teaching and Learning
VITAL is a comprehensive online strategy to support and promote student achievement by offering video clips and standards-aligned activities for classroom use.
Using VITAL you can:
find fun, video-based activities for the classroom that support individual student needs;
easily align classroom instruction with New York state standards;
learn best practices for incorporating media in your classroom.
VITAL is a cooperative effort between Thirteen/WNET New York, The Grow Network/McGraw-Hill, Educational Development Center’s Center for Children and Technology (CCT), and Hezel Associates. It is a rich collection of educational videos to the classroom through expert-developed activities that are aligned to New York State standards in Math and English Language Arts for grades 3-8.
By tonzr, December 22, 2009 @ 3:36 am
I know that this VITAL program has a lot more to come. I am a teacher myself and this is very one thing that I wanted to do. There should be varied strategies like this to enhance the student’s learning.