Teaching Videos

Show My Homework

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:02:08 GMT

Show My Homework is a simple online application that enables school teachers to post homework, display it in a simple calendar form, and even assess it online. Find out how to use it in this tutorial video.

ActivInspire - A basic introduction

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:24:07 GMT

In this tutorial you'll learn the basics of ActivInspire, the interactive whiteboard software from Promethean. You'll learn how to setup a new flipchart, add, edit and format text, as well as how to use the pen tool to add annotations and highlighting. Finally you'll learn how to manage the pages of a flipchart file, so you can change their order to suit your lesson. If you have never used ActivInspire before, this is a great place to start.

Summer Holidays

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:22:07 GMT

Use this Purple Mash Apptivity to help you write up a report of what you did in the summer holidays. This writing frame comes with word prompts and decorative clip art. Find it at http://www.purplemash.com/summerhol/

How to use the Delicous social bookmarking site

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:19:38 GMT

Learn how to use the social bookmarking site Delicious in the k-12 classroom in 5 minutes or less at Learnitin5.

How to create a classroom blog with Blogger

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:19:14 GMT

Learn how to create a classroom blog or classroom web site with Blogger.

How to use Wallwisher

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:18:57 GMT

Learn how to use the web-based picture, video and note sharing tool, Wallwisher.

How to use Voicethread

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:18:39 GMT

Learn how to register, upload pictures, comment and share a web-based Voicethread slide share presentation.

How to use Skype

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:18:18 GMT

How to download and make web-based face-to-face phone calls to teachers and students, using Skype.

Edmodo made easy

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:17:54 GMT

How to use the microblogging web 2.0 application, Edmodo.

Voki made easy

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:17:27 GMT

Learn how to create easy-to-share audio podcasts with Voki.

Google reader for teachers

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:16:53 GMT

How to use Google reader to organize blogs in the classroom.

How to create online posters with AutoMotivator

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:16:11 GMT

Teachers and students can create motivational posters online with the Web 2.0 application AutoMotivator.

Podcasting with Audio Boo

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:15:25 GMT

How to create and share podcasts with Audio Boo.

Wallwisher with blogs and wikis

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:14:48 GMT

How to create a Wallwisher lesson and integrate it with a classroom wiki or blog.

Science Explains Lightning

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:07:51 GMT

A video which explains what lightning is.

Light and Colour

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:06:21 GMT

A rock video which teaches about light and colour.

The Science Guy on Light Bending & Bouncing

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:05:26 GMT

Light bends through a lens. Bill shows us why. We call it the science of "optics." Notice that the light changes direction every time it goes from air to plastic,and then again when it goes from plastic to air. It's slows down and speeds up. When that happens, it just can't help but bend. Lean in, and have a look.

The Science Guy on Chemical Reactions

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:04:24 GMT

When it comes to chemistry, electrons change places driven from around by energy chemical energy. Watch your eyes; hold your ears, and look out. In two minutes, it'll be time for another really big chemical reaction.

The Science Guy on Static Electricity

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:03:20 GMT

The clue: Bill in the Lab with the van de Graaff generator. This bit rocks. It's that fundamental idea that if opposites attract, likes repel, from the floor right through the hairs on a head. You'll get a charge out of this bit.

The Science Guy on Blood & Circulation

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:02:27 GMT

Get your heart pumping and hold on, as Bill pulls some g's in a suit just made for that purpose. He's going one way, and his blood is going another, unless he holds it together. Uh...so does the plane. It show's you how hard your heart works keeping your cells breathing and fed. Whee....

The Science Guy on Bones

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:01:44 GMT

Consider the Following, bones support all that is us. Our bodies' bones let us move, hold us up, and are always growing. They provide the pushing reaction forces balance and counter the pull of our muscles. For his fans, this is the episode with Bone Boy.

The Science Guy on Reptiles

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:00:43 GMT

Reptile skin is warm to the touch, even though they may be cold-blooded. A reptile's scales are tough even though they're bending about on the soft skin. Other than that, they're a lot lke us, not exactly, but a good bit. Take a look at this good bit.

The Science Guy on The Brain

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:00:04 GMT

It's a Mighty Good Brain, my friends. It's a song that rocks that folded world in your skull. The story unfolds like a Sunday paper reader looking for that certain section. The folds make it function. Your brain takes it all in and produces moments like these.

The Science Guy on The Eyeball

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:59:14 GMT

Take a look... with your eye. You'll see how it works. You'll see things right side up that start out upside down. It's a quick trick your brain pulls. Your brain by the way is the part of your eyes that you can see. Click, and have a look-see.

The Science Guy on Balance

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:57:14 GMT

It would be a long way down, without forces in balance. Bill bikes on a high-rail to show that forces can work together to move things or hold them in balance. Then, as they so often od, grannies and bikers work together to bring balance to the screen and a mud pit. Hmm...

The Science Guy on The Sun

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:55:56 GMT

Now you can know the shadow, the shadow of an eclipse. Our Sun provides the light and heat we need to live. But, we can learn a great deal about the Sun, when it's hidden by the enormous shadow of the Moon. Here's how...

The Science Guy on Planets & Moons

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:54:09 GMT

You might feel like you're sitting still, but you're wonderingmoving around a star. Our Earth is a planet, held in an orbit by the pull of a rope... no, wait. It's the pull of gravity. Take this one for a spin.

The Science Guy on Plants

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:53:17 GMT

What do you mean what color is it? It's green! It's the grass-covered car. Plants grow everywhere. That's a good thing, because without them, we couldn't breathe or eat. Wow, do we ever depend on plants take a look!

The Science Guy on Heat

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:52:19 GMT

Heat flows. It's the energy of moving molecules. Heat makes things go; it can make things burn. From snow to ice floe, things may look cold, but they've got heat. Conduction, radiation, convection, natural and forced that's how heat gets around.

Little Miss Muffet

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:49:31 GMT

A pop-up animation which tells the famous story of Little Miss Muffet.

Mahatma Gandhi's historic Dandi march

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:48:36 GMT

Mahatma Gandhi challenged the British imposistion of tax for salt in India. The 61 year old Gandhi, along with 78 followers marched from Sabarmati ashram to Dandi beach, covering a distance of 240 miles in 23 days. They reached Dandi on 5th April 1930. With a handful of salt, he sent shockwaves through the British monopoly and showed the finest example of non-violent revolution.

Roger Bannister breaks the four minute mile

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:47:21 GMT

A report about Roger Bannister breaking the four minute mile.

Wright Brothers have Lift Off!

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:46:32 GMT

A video of the Wright Brothers' flight.

Jesse Owens and the 1936 Olympics

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:44:00 GMT

A report about Jesse Owens and the Olympics in Germany in 1936.

1989 Tiananmen Square Protests

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:41:53 GMT

A Chinese man stands alone to block a line of tanks heading east on Beijing's Cangan Blvd. in Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989.

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:40:07 GMT

A video report on the fall of the Berlin Wall.

How To Be Alone

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:05:05 GMT

HOW TO BE ALONE by Tanya Davis If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it. We could start with the acceptable places, the bathroom, the coffee shop, the library. Where you can stall and read the paper, where you can get your caffeine fix and sit and stay there. Where you can browse the stacks and smell the books. You're not supposed to talk much anyway so it's safe there. There's also the gym. If you're shy you could hang out with yourself in mirrors, you could put headphones in (guitar stroke). And there's public transportation, because we all gotta go places. And there's prayer and meditation. No one will think less if you're hanging with your breath seeking peace and salvation. Start simple. Things you may have previously (electric guitar plucking) based on your avoid being alone principals. The lunch counter. Where you will be surrounded by chow-downers. Employees who only have an hour and their spouses work across town and so they -- like you -- will be alone. Resist the urge to hang out with your cell phone. When you are comfortable with eat lunch and run, take yourself out for dinner. A restaurant with linen and silverware. You're no less intriguing a person when you're eating solo dessert to cleaning the whipped cream from the dish with your finger. In fact some people at full tables will wish they were where you were. Go to the movies. Where it is dark and soothing. Alone in your seat amidst a fleeting community. And then, take yourself out dancing to a club where no one knows you. Stand on the outside of the floor till the lights convince you more and more and the music shows you. Dance like no one's watching...because, they're probably not. And, if they are, assume it is with best of human intentions. The way bodies move genuinely to beats is, after all, gorgeous and affecting. Dance until you're sweating, and beads of perspiration remind you of life's best things, down your back like a brook of blessings. Go to the woods alone, and the trees and squirrels will watch for you. Go to an unfamiliar city, roam the streets, there're always statues to talk to and benches made for sitting give strangers a shared existence if only for a minute and these moments can be so uplifting and the conversations you get in by sitting alone on benches might've never happened had you not been there by yourself Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. but lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it. You could stand, swathed by groups and mobs or hold hands with your partner, look both further and farther for the endless quest for company. But no one's in your head and by the time you translate your thoughts, some essence of them may be lost or perhaps it is just kept. Perhaps in the interest of loving oneself, perhaps all those sappy slogans from preschool over to high school's groaning were tokens for holding the lonely at bay. Cuz if you're happy in your head than solitude is blessed and alone is okay. It's okay if no one believes like you. All experience is unique, no one has the same synapses, can't think like you, for this be releived, keeps things interesting lifes magic things in reach. And it doesn't mean you're not connected, that communitie's not present, just take the perspective you get from being one person in one head and feel the effects of it. take silence and respect it. if you have an art that needs a practice, stop neglecting it. if your family doesn't get you, or religious sect is not meant for you, don't obsess about it. you could be in an instant surrounded if you needed it If...

How To Maintain Classroom Discipline

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:54:02 GMT

A video made in 1947... Good and bad methods of disciplining inappropriate classroom behavior. This was an instructional movie for teachers. While there are new & different problems in the modern schools, the basic ideas of this film still holds. The opening messages are exactly what the best research on classroom behaviour tells us. What messages are shared in this video? How could these affect teaching and learning in your classroom?

The Evolution of Communication

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:00:11 GMT

Whilst this video does advertise a feature of Facebook, it does begin with an interesting review of ways of communicating throughout history.

Amazing Technology In This House

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:47:52 GMT

A video showing examples of new technology might be used in houses in the future. Could be used as a starting point for designing houses and technology that we might have in 10 / 20 / 50 / 100 years time.

Giant Stinson Beach Bubbles

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:43:33 GMT

A beautiful video showing giant beach bubbles! Could be used as a starting point for discussion about bubbles and how they are made... could also be used for Literacy work (describing bubbles... or creative stories based on magical bubbles).

First Day of school

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:33:04 GMT

The opening scene from Disney-Pixar's "Finding Nemo"... a fantastic clip which could be used at the start of the school year. Are the children in your class as excited as Nemo?

Pompeii, The Last Day

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:31:05 GMT

An excerpt from a BBC documentary about Pompeii... other videos are available which show the rest of the documentary.

How to Make a Spider Costume

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:26:29 GMT

To make a spider costume, stuff the legs of old black tights with newspaper, attach the legs to a black T-shirt and wear the top portion of the old tights on the head as a cap. Create a homemade spider costume with a demonstration from an experienced primary school teacher in this free video on paper crafts.

How to Make Infant Halloween Costumes

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:25:47 GMT

To make an infant Halloween costume, create a mask out of white paper, decorate the mask with markers, shred plastic bags to make stringy hair and use dark clothing to finish it off. Create handmade infant Halloween costumes with a demonstration from an experienced primary school teacher in this free video on paper crafts.

How to Make a Paper Propeller

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:24:00 GMT

To make a paper propeller, start with a square piece of paper, fold it diagonally in both directions, cut slits over each fold and fold each corner over to the next corner, securing all of the loose ends with a push pin. Create a paper propeller or windmill with a demonstration from an experienced primary school teacher in this free video on paper crafts.

How to Make a Ball Out of Paper

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:22:53 GMT

Making a ball out of paper involves cutting out a circle shape from several pieces of paper, folding each one in half and gluing each half side to the next circle. Attach a string and some sequins to a paper ball with a demonstration from an experienced primary school teacher in this free video on paper crafts.

How to Make a Cube Using Paper

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:21:46 GMT

Making a cube using paper requires tracing six equal squares onto a piece of paper into a cross shape, cutting out the entire shape together, folding it into a cube and gluing the edges together. Make a cube out of paper with a demonstration from an experienced primary school teacher in this free video on paper crafts.

How to Make a Paper Pyramid

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:20:54 GMT

Making a paper pyramid involves tracing a perfect square, tracing four identical triangles around the square, adding flaps to each triangle, cutting out the entire shape as a whole and gluing all of the flaps and edges together. Create a paper pyramid, decorating it with shapes and designs, with a demonstration from an experienced primary school teacher in this free video on paper crafts.

How to Make a Paper Tower

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:19:58 GMT

To make a paper tower, cut small slits along the long side of a piece of paper, fold down every other flap, roll the paper into a cylinder and decorate the outside like a medieval tower. Create a paper tower, even cutting out a door and adding windows, with a demonstration from an experienced primary school teacher in this free video on paper crafts.