Online learning / Instructional sites

          One site that teachers and students can access to view videos for teaching is Access Learning.  Access Learning provides videos on numerous subjects that span across Language, Math, Science, Social Studies, the Arts, and Health.  Viewers can click on a particular subject area, and click on a topic to study at the right, browse some of the featured videos on the screen, or use the search bar at the top, to search for a particular theme.  Videos can range from science lessons presented by Bill Nye, to help with algebra, to information on making successful presentations.  School boards do need to have a registered account with access learning to view the materials, and using a board IP location gives you instant access to hundreds of videos for multiple topics.  The link is provided here:

accesslearning.com

           A second site that teachers and students can access for instructional videos is eworkshop.on.ca.  Eworkshop is a free resource specifically designed for Ontario educators.  The videos are designed to meet the needs of the Ontario curriculum expectations, and contains numerous videos and documentaries for grades K to 6.  This site is geared towards your core subjects, with modules in Language arts and math.  The site also provides videos for Daily Physical Activities (DPA) likewise.  Most of these videos were created by real teachers, in real classrooms, and feature lessons that provide step by step instructions and information for students.  They feature teachers facilitating kids through several processes, from literature circle roles to developing a sense of quantity when counting fractions.  

          Both access learning and eworkshop have been tagged in my Delicious account and on twitter, with the hashtag #video9F61.  I’m also finding that youtube has a lot more videos that are geared to education and the classroom.  I found a great instructional video on the atom the other day, that I showed my students when teaching about electrons and electricity.

 

          Teachers often use instructional videos to suppliment their educational programming across numerous subject matter, educating students about various facts and procedures.  How can teachers use instructional videos as more of a culminating task, to demonstrate student learning for a topic within a subject?