Here’s James Cameron’s new animation of how the Titanic sank. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About The Titanic.
April 9, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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April 9, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Here’s James Cameron’s new animation of how the Titanic sank. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About The Titanic.
April 5, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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In this video, some ducklings were able to get over the curb on their own. However, several found that it was just too high. Look at how someone provides assistance to those having trouble, and how he doesn’t tell them what to do. Instead, he offers it as an option, as a choice they can make. It’s an example of an old community organizing axiom, “If you don’t give people the opportunity to say no, you don’t give them the opportunity to say yes, either.”
April 5, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Diane Ravitch calls this video clip the “greatest single commentary on flaws of data-driven school reform today.” It is pretty darn good, I have to agree:
April 4, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Today, Google released a video demonstrating their hopes for augmented reality glasses they developing. It’s a little too connected for me — What do you think? And what do you think your students will think?
March 31, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Here’s a short clip of Bill Moyers interviewing the late Howard Zinn, author of The People’s History Of The United States, in 2009. I’ve also embedded the entire interview right below the clip.
March 31, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Here’s an extraordinarily touching short video about a blind dog found among some garbage. It’s going to be hard for most people, including my ESL students, not to get a few tears in their eyes. I’ll show it to students after our Winter Break next week and then we’ll write sentences about happened in the film.
March 30, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Check out this 1969 video that imagined the Internet. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About The History Of Technology:
March 28, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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March 27, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Perpetual Ocean is a NASA video showing ocean currents over a two year period. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About The World’s Oceans.
March 27, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Bridge8, an organization in Australia, recently produced these excellent animations on critical thinking, along with an accompanying resource for teachers. I’m adding them to The Best Resources On Teaching & Learning Critical Thinking In The Classroom:
Also, speaking of critical thinking, I’m also adding Critical Thinking: A Necessary Skill in the Age of Spin from Edutopia to that list.
March 26, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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I’m sure there are plenty of fun videos out there about books and reading, and I hope readers will point me in the direction of others besides the ones on this list.
You might also be interested in A Collection Of The Best “Laugh While You Cry” Videos about teaching.
I’ve used the videos on this list both as “discussion starters” and as fun ways to end a class when I have a few minutes of “extra” time left:
Here’s the famous “Gotta Keep Reading” video from Ocoee Middle School:
Here’s what books do at night when we’re not looking:
Here’s a fun combination of library scenes from movies and TV shows:
“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” won the Oscar for Best Animated Short this year. It’s described as taking:
…place in a world where books are living creatures. It offers sentimental tale about the power of books and storytelling.
Here it is:
Here’s a Rube Goldberg machine that turns the pages of your newspaper:
Here’s one on organizing a bookcase:
Book Dominoes:
As I mentioned earlier, I hope you’ll recommend more!
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You might also want to explore the 900 other “The Best…” lists I’ve compiled.
March 26, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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I’ve previously posted about the incredible English-learning activities created by Mrs. Haquet, who teaches English in France. I have several of her sites on The Best Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced English Language Learner Sites list.
She’s been creating a lot of excellent video activities recently, so now I’m adding that site to that same list. Many of them relate to United States history, so they’re very handy for those classes, too.
In addition, she seems to have recently “redone” her main website, so all of her activities are now very accessible in one place.
March 24, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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NASA put a video camera on a booster rocket and this is what it recorded. You can read more about it here.
March 20, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Check-out the just-released Symphony of Science video about dinosaurs. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About Dinosaurs:
March 20, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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I periodically post “most popular” lists of websites (and books) that I think educators might find useful. Of course, there are a number of ways to gauge “popularity.” I just view these lists as opportunities to check-out some new sites, and find it interesting to see which ones might be particularly “popular.”
You might be interested in The Best Places To Find The Most Popular (& Useful) Resources For Educators –2011.
Today, I’d like to share about The Guardian’s “Viral Video Chart.” Each week, they post a list of the most popular ten videos on the Web.
March 19, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Six3 lets you send a free video message via iPhone, PC or Mac. Registration is required, but it takes seconds. It’s very easy to use.
I’m adding it to The Best Applications For Sending Online Video Messages.
March 18, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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The Northern Lights were filmed from the International Space Station recently. You can read more about it here. I’m adding the video to The Best Sites For Learning About The Northern Lights.
March 17, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Here’s a fun video using Seinfield to illustrate the levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. I don’t necessarily think it’s as good as the Star Wars or Pirates of the Caribbean videos already on The Best Resources For Helping Teachers Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom list, but it’s fun. I can’t embed it here because that ability was disabled.
March 17, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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As NPR put it in their headline above this video of Richard Feynman: “Great Teacher, Short Question, Wild Answer”
March 14, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Here’s a video of a very sneaky penguin. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About Penguins.