Regina and I will try to update the blog weekly with tools and websites that you might find helpful in your classroom. Of course, for the month of March, you can check out the
Middletown Elementary Web Challenge to see a variety of other tools that might work for you. Right now you can learn about
YouTubeEDU, which is YouTube's special site just for education.
The tool I wanted to highlight this week is TED.com
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TED stands for
Technology, Entertainment, Design and hosts a series of TED Talks in which people from a variety of industries give short talks related to their passion. You can find talks by well known celebrities like
Al Gore and
Bill Gates to people who are relatively unknown to you like
Neil Parischa and
Charlie Todd. You can find talks on science, engineering, living a better life. Almost anything you want. They are great filler videos to show on short days or when the students all finish the test early and you can't start the next unit or the day before long breaks. None of the videos are longer than about 20 minutes and some are even less than 5. Below are a few of my favorites from different areas. My only word of caution is TED is intended for adults. While most of the videos are fine, there are a couple that contain words that are inappropriate for school. Like everything else, make sure you watch them in advance before showing to your class.
