Wednesday, October 31, 2012

10 Useful Video Sites For Educators

Technologies are very helpful when we're talking about education. Internet is a huge sources of education. So I will introduce you 10 useful video sites for educators.

10 Videos Sites:
  1. YouTube - This site is the most common video site. It is a big sources of all kinds of videos. Firstly, this is because the site is safety. Secondly, the site works for most countries. And lastly, the content from other sites is pretty much found in YouTube too.
  2. TED-ed - TED-ed is well known too but the difference from YouTube is that mainly the content are especially for education. This is useful only for education, it contains many different lessons videos.
  3. TeacherTube - This site is focused on education videos. But it is different from TED-ed because this site also allows you to share your own videos or see videos that are uploaded by other teachers too.
  4. Edutopia - Edutopia is a  great source of learning. Not only you will find videos here, but also blogs, and more. The site is well-arranged and it is very easy to use because it sorts everything by grade levels.
  5. YouTubeEdu - This is another YouTube channel used especially for education. You can find every levels of education here including life-long education. But the content is limited because mainly people use the main YouTube site.
  6. Classroom Clips - The content in classroom clips are media in the form of videos and audios. 
  7. neoK12 - Educational source of kids in K-12. All contents are sorted by subjects. The contents not just include videos but also puzzle games, quizzes, pictures, presentations, and much more.
  8. OV Guide - Mainly the contents are featured by author readings and instructional videos.
  9. Brightstorm - This site is a homework helper for students. It is a time-saving site. There are variety of subjects. It also include Test-prep like SAT, ACT, and PSAT. 
  10. Zane Education - This site is well-known for visual education. The contents included quizzes, lesson plans, videos, and study tools.
Potential Strength/ Advantages:
  1. Time-saving - It save lots of time because you can search it in your house, school, etc. Because technologies nowadays are very common. You don't have to do experiment or polls or anything because you can find it online.
  2. Comfortable/Money saving - It is comfortable because you may use the internet almost anytime. It is money saving because you don't have to buy books or hire a tutor to help you on education.
  3. Variety of  answers - You can search for many people's opinion and compare them.
Potential Problems/ Limitations/ Disadvantages:
  1. Courses availability - There are limits of courses available online.
  2. Random answers - Some websites are not trustworthy so you might get the wrong answer if you don't research well.
  3. Contacting instructors- You may have problem accessing to instructors because internet is a world-wide system, the instructors may not be from your country.
I think this blog is very useful because it introduced lots of websites. The most important thing when you do searching is you need to search at least 5 sites. You cannot use only 1 site because you have to compare the contents you get.

Questions:

  • How's online site useful?
  • Why do people nowadays focused on mostly online education? Is it better than learning in schools?

 "15 Great Video Sites For Educators - Edgalaxy - Cool Stuff For Nerdy Teachers - Edgalaxy: Where Education and Technology Meet." 15 Great Video Sites For Educators. N.p., 3 Sept. 2012. Web. 31 Oct. 2012. <http://www.edgalaxy.com/journal/2012/9/3/15-great-video-sites-for-educators.html>.