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Classroom 2.0 LIVE Conversations

Classroom 2.0 LIVE Conversations are community-scheduled opportunities to talk on specific topics with other members of the Classroom 2.0 using one of the online voice/video/sharing programs. Using this wiki page you can find discussions to participate in, or schedule to host additional ones.

Content Meets Technology in Mashups

Cooperative Quizzes: Learning Through Group Assessment

This on-line “workshop” is intended for instructors who wish to learn how to implement cooperative quizzes with their students. A cooperative quiz is a very easy way to generate cooperative learning. The workshop involves several videos showing students engaged in a cooperative quiz, and an instructor who is commenting on specific aspects of the activity.

Disabled Bodies, Able Minds: Giving Voice, Movement, and Independence to the Physically Challenged

Assistive technology makes it possible for students without full mobility to participate in class and school activities.

Ease History

EASE History is a rich learning environment that supports the learning of US history and to help learning think more like historians. Find over 600 videos and photographs. Search by three learning modes, single and multiple theme searches, and resources support the comparing and contrasting of historical cases.

EdPro Digital Video Resources

Enhance your online and digital training with digital video assets for use in early childhood education, teacher professional development, child care training and specials needs staff development. Some clips are free, others for purchase or one time use.

Learner.org

See this robust library of digital resources for teaching and learning developed by the Annenberg Media. Search by subject area and grade level.

MIT OpenCourseWare

OCW is a free publication of course materials used at MIT. Included on this website are lecture notes, problem sets, labs and more. Watch lecture videos and demonstrations, and study a wide variety of subjects.

MIT Orients Course Materials Online to K-12

An article from Education Week highlights a website from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Highlights for High School, which offers free video, audio, and print lectures and course material taken straight from the school’s classes. Those resources target K-12 teachers and students.

Music: An Introduction of the Context and Subject of the Inquiry

Describes course of teaching music over the Internet. This is especially useful for students that do not have access to live music teachers.

National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality Webcasts

The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality hosts a series of live, interactive webcasts devoted to bringing solutions to issues of teaching in at-risk schools from the research, policy, and practice perspectives. Each webcast includes pre-webcast presentations that outline the problems associated with the issue and a post-webcast online discussion forum.

Pedagogy in Practice

Pedagogy in Practice offers video case studies in math, video cases in science, and strategies. See links to professional content area standards in practice resources.

Portraits of Exceptionality

Portraits of Exceptionality is a special collection of multi-media resources representing historical and contemporary experiences of individuals with disabilities providing access to the diverse visual and literary representations of individuals with disabilities across historical and contemporary contexts. The digital collection includes a unique depository of film and visual images, videos, and printed resources that illuminates fictional and real life depictions of individuals with disabilities.

Special Education iPod Demo in Louisa Muscatine Elementary School

This is a short movie displaying how the iPod Video is used in an elementary classroom to target students with reading difficulties who need tests read to them and need to view the test questions.

Teaching Math: A Video Library, 9-12

See how high school teachers use the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and group learning to reach a broad range of students. In this library, teachers demonstrate the fine art of guiding students through reasoning and problem solving. Students comment on the new way of learning, often expressing frustration as well as the sense of accomplishment they feel when working through problems with peers.

Teaching Module on Technology Integration

The technology integration module is meant for use either after completion of the project-based learning module or with participants who are familiar with project-based learning. The module is designed for a two- to three-hour class or session. It can be used in conjunction with trainings of software applications that are used in classroom settings.

Teaching with Film and Video

Integrate films and videos into ESL lessons. Find vocabulary lists, lesson plans and activities tied to classic films.

Teaching with Technology

Describes a model of how teachers collaborate and teach with technology that integrates technology, multimedia, and curriculum. This model is used in the Pleasant Ridge School District, CA.

The Futures Channel

To produce and distribute high quality multimedia content which educators in any setting can use to enliven curriculum, engage students and otherwise enhance the learning experience.

The Making of an Audiobook

Ever wonder who the voice is on the other end of that audiobook that kept you company during that long cross country drive? Or what it takes to put one of those things together? View a video on the making of an audiobook from NPR.

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