Resources for Digital Learning at the Secondary Level

Teacher Tube

This is the description from the Teacher Tube website:

After beta testing for almost two months, TeacherTube officially launched on March 6, 2007. Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.

TeacherTube was the idea of Jason Smith, a 14-year veteran educator. Jason has been a teacher, coach, campus administrator and district administrator in public schools. He asked the question, “Why can’t teachers, students, and schools utilize the power of the read/write web for learning?” To overcome barriers, he decided to just create a site and get started trying to help. He turned to his brother, Adam, who is a younger, digital native, with technical skills. Adam used his skills to develop the site and found a web host. Soon, Jason’s wife, Jodie, joined the team to start populating the site with videos and help improve the communication. She too has 14 years of experience in education as a classroom teacher, campus technology integrator, and district curriculum coordinator.

With TeacherTube, community members can:

• Upload, tag and share videos worldwide.
• Upload Support Files to attach your educational Actvities, Assessments, Lesson Plans, Notes, and Other file formats to your video.
• Browse hundreds of videos uploaded by community members.
• Find, join and create video groups to connect with people who have similar interests.
• Customize the experience by subscribing to member videos, saving favorites, and creating playlists.
• Integrate TeacherTube videos on websites using video embeds or APIs.
• Make videos public or private - users can elect to broadcast their videos publicly or share them privately with those they invite.

Most importantly, TeacherTube community members are a major part of the evolution of the site. Members are encouraged to not only upload educationally relevant videos, but also to make constructive comments and use the rating system to show appreciation for videos of value to one as an educator or learner. Users also have the ability to preserve the integrity of the site by flagging inappropriate videos. TeacherTube staff review flagged sites and will remove any inappropriate posts. With more collegial commentary and discussion through messaging and responses, the quality of this resource will only increase.

The service is free for everyone. We always encourage our users to Contact Us with thoughts, suggestions, or other feedback. We do have a vision for TeacherTube to truly be a better alternative to other video storage sites. With the community’s help, it can become more interactive and engaging for all teachers and learners.

We invite everyone to keep up with what’s going on with TeacherTube by reading the TeacherTube Blog. Please let us know if you need help using TeacherTube or if you have a suggestion.

You can sign up for a free account that allows you to:

To get you started, here are some of the fun things you can do with TeacherTube:

• -Upload and share your educational videos worldwide.
• -Upload Support Files to attach y! our educational Actvities, Assessments, Lesson Plans, Notes, and Other file formats to your video.
• -Browse original educational videos uploaded by community members.
• -Find, join and create video Groups to connect with teachers, students, and schools who have similar interests.
• -Customize your experience with playlists.
• -Integrate TeacherTube with your website using video embeds or links provided on your video page.

Click on the logo below to go to their home page.

Hudson River Valley Heritage

The mission of HRVH is to provide universal access to a collaborative digital record of Hudson River Valley history and creativity.It provides access to historical materials from digital collections contributed by colleges, libraries, archives, historical societies, museums and cultural organizations from the following counties in New York State: Columbia, Greene, Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan, Rockland, Orange, Putnam, and Westchester. Organizations continue to contribute collections that contain a variety of photographs, maps, letters, postcards, manuscripts, scrapbooks, programs from events, memorabilia and ephemera, and audio and video clips. Many of these collections include unique historical resources not previously available in digital format.

You can search for audio/video, images, objects and/or text.  When you open a resource there is information regarding copyright and who to contact to get permission to use the item. 

The Day Boat, Hudson Taylor, to Poughkeepsie, in the early 1900s.

This image is from the Marlboro Free Library’s holdings.

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.

SmartBoard Teacher’s Hub

Smart Technologies has created a Teacher’s Hub - a single destination for all the resources you need to get started using SmartBoards and update your skills. Use the Teacher’s Hub to help you seamlessly integrate your SmartBoard interactive whiteboard into your classroom. There are categories of links for training, curriculum resources, support and professional development.

The Internet Public Library

The Internet Public Library is the place to go for all your general reference needs! There are links to dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, and other sites for homework help or just looking things up.

Bartleby.com - Great Books Online

Bartleby.com combines contemporary and classic reference works into a comprehensive public reference library. Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, usage, quotations and more.

National Atlas

Here’s some of the things you can do at National Atlas:

Customize your own map for printing or viewing

Investigate the layers that you can mix and match when making your own map

Print pre-formatted maps on a variety of topics

Order larger maps suitable for the wall of your office, home, or classroom

Play with interactive maps

Learn about topics that interest you

Download documented, accurate, reliable, and integrated data to use in your GIS application

Learning Science

Learningscience.org provides a comprehensive collection of tools for teaching science.  Don’t miss Tools to Do Science! Interactive lessons and other resources are listed for these subjects by grade levels:  Science as Inquiry, Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space, Science & Tech, Science & Society, and Nature of Science.

Visuwords

Visuwords is an online graphical dictionary.  You can look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. You can learn how words associate and see them in a web type diagram.  It is a dictionary and a thesaurus was developed based on Princeton University’s WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers.

Hippocampus

HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge. It includes multimedia content and correlations to textbooks with actual online textbook pages. This is a terrific resource that is free of charge. Teachers can create their own Hippocampus pages. HippoCampus was designed as part of Open Education Resources (OER), a worldwide effort to improve access to quality education for everyone.

Follow the link image below to go to my Hippocampus page example.