Free Online Video Resources (part 2)

Part 2: Searching strategies / Using video in the classroom

I hope you found a plethora of free video resources in the links I shared in Part 1. The participants in this training cover a wide variety of grade levels/content areas, so if you were unable to find a lot of video content specific to your needs, please let me know and I will see what I can find for you!

If you haven’t posted a comment on the blogpost yet, don’t rush. There is no formal deadline, and I’ll email you to remind you if I don’t see a response from you in the next few weeks.

The next part of this training is designed to provide you with some searching strategies and ideas for using video in the classroom. There is no “written” assignment for this part of the training. In fact, I am simply trusting that you will explore the resources I’m sharing. There is no “formal” assignment at all! Of course, if you have any questions or comments, feel free to email me.


Assignment:   :)

Explore the resources below!

Time: 2 hours
“Due date”: Determine on your own!



Search strategies

• Common Craft is a company that creates short video explanations of various topics. Their “Web Search Strategies” video is a simple explanation of how to search the web via a search engine.
  Web Search Strategies in Plain English: http://www.commoncraft.com/video/web-search-strategies

• There are many search engines out there, and they offer a variety of options for searching and receiving results. We will be looking at search strategies for the most popular search engine, Google. Explore the resources below to learn basic (and some advanced) features and functionality of a Google search.

• Basic search help
  http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=134479&topic=1221265
• More search help
  http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=136861&topic=1221265
• Search results options
  http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=142143&topic=1221265
• Google for Educators – Search basics
  http://www.google.com/educators/p_searchbasics.htm
•  Google Search Tips
  http://www.google.com/landing/searchtips/
• Google Web Search – Classroom Lessons and Resources
  http://www.google.com/educators/p_websearch.html
• Google’s 15 Second Search Tips
  http://www.youtube.com/user/Google#g/c/B3A7CCFD7CD5CF09
• Updates to Google Search
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-rnxNFRAQA&NR=1
• Google for Educators: Classroom Posters
  http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html
• Interactive tool to practice using Boolean logic in a search
  Boolify: http://www.boolify.org/index.php
• Google Custom Search – GCS allows you create your very own search engine! I have entered the website URLs for all of the video resources I shared with you in Part 1 into a Google Custom Search. This enables you to complete a search (just like you would do on google.com), but instead of search results coming from the entire web, you will only receive results from the sites I’ve included. (By the way, you can create your own GCS for free!)
  My GCS for free video resources: http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=018202937979042247807:sdm0poyz5qo

Using video in the classroom

• http://eltandtech.pbworks.com/w/page/27693945/Using-Video 
• http://litlink.ket.org/tips/multimedia.html  
• http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/ntti/resources/video1.html  
• http://www.edutopia.org/youtube-educational-videos-classroom

Using YouTube in the classroom

• http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-youtube-teaching-video 
• http://www.drezac.com/2010/10/youtube-in-classroom.html  
• http://www.drezac.com/2010/10/you-tilizing-youtube-in-classroom.html 
• Using video CREATION in your classroom: http://davidwees.com/content/twenty-ways-use-video-your-classroom

Tools

• View YouTube videos without the ads and other distracting content http://viewpure.com/ http://www.safeshare.tv/
• Edit YouTube videos
  http://www.tubechop.com/ 
• Download YouTube videos (and convert videos and other files to different formats)
  http://zamzar.com/