100 Best YouTube Videos for Education

http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/08/100-best-youtube-videos-for-teachers/

Here is a list of videos that can be used to supplement your curriculum and give inspiration to your students. The list is broken down into categories: History, Science, Language, Arts, Inspiration, Classroom Management, How to Guides, Technology, and Humor. A couple of the videos may not be completely appropriate for classroom use so preview before you show them with your kids. One in particular I like that is reflective of my teaching philosophy is called Pay Attention, written by a friend of mine from Utah.

On a related note, streaming video in your classroom can be dicey at times with respect to our Internet bandwidth. To get around this for YouTube, there is a website called KeepVid – http://www.keepvid.com – that will allow you to convert a YouTube video to a video file that can then be downloaded to your computer. By doing this, you will avoid any potential buffering issues caused by video streaming.

SMARTBoard Literacy Activities

http://www.lm.havre.k12.mt.us/teachertools/smartboard/reading.htm

These activities are primarily geared for K-5 classrooms. Some of the activities include rhyming words, punctuation, descriptive words, ordering, verb play, phonics, letter/sound identification, and poetry. Give it a spin and find a gem that you soon won’t be able to live without.

Please let me know if you find these resources useful and please share how you would use them in your classroom.

Happy Easter!