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Excellent Song and Music Resources for Parents and Teachers

It has been a while since I posted anything directly to my site. I thought I would consolidate four of my favourite resources into one post here that are a seemingly endless and FREE collections of excellent online resources for music, singing, dancing, and nursery rhymes. Without further adieu:

Bus Songs – This one is great for young kids. It is sortable and searchable. For example, if I want to find all the songs that are about Transport; of course they have that…and I can see which ones have audio and which have video.

Cosmic Kids Yoga – Youtube – This channel is neat because the yoga instructor takes you through a story and teaches different moves. The stories are done with ‘blue screen’ techniques so it seems like she is in far off or imaginary places.

Just Dance – Youtube – I have seen kids in grade 5 (age 10) who all love the videos from this channel. This means younger ones will like them too. The teachers are able to sit back and have the video teach the kids the dance moves. Forget the square dance. It is time to doh-see-doh your partner over to these fun, hip videos.

Intellidancing – Youtube – When you have had enough of yoga, hip-hop and pop dancing, and nursery rhymes, it is time for a little modern, conceptual dancing and movement. This is when these videos are for you. Enjoy.

Downloading Youtube Videos: How to

12 Sep

Attention:

Everyone wants to know, “How can I download videos from Youtube?” Well, it’s never been easier.

Proof:

The fact that I get asked at least once a week about how to download Youtube videos should be proof enough that people are asking this question.

However, the fact that there are 2,220,000 hits in Google when you search, “Download Youtube videos” added to the fact that there are tonne of programs and ways to do this compounds my evidence that we can and should be able to do it pretty easily.

Strategy:

In my short video below, I explain how to download videos from Youtube through Firefox.

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Posted by ict-design.org | Tom Johnson on September 12, 2011 in Education, Technology

Tags: Browsers, Downloading, Firefox, Mozilla Firefox, Youtube

Sneak Peak: End of the Year Video

06 Jun

Attention:

For those of you who would like a sneak peek at the end of the year video I made for the MYP kids at Concordian International School, this blog post is the embedded video and link to it.

Proof:

Strategy:

Want to make one yourself?

Subscribe to Animoto
Upload, or choose pics/video from your computer or even Facebook
Choose some music – Animoto has lots of nice stuff, but you can upload your own
Choose the theme and transitions
If you would like longer than 30 second videos, you need to pay $5.00
Download high quality videos for $3.00 per video
Use Freemake Video Converter to edit, change formats, and add images

I was using Adobe Premier, but with all its bells and whistles I wanted to use something a lot simpler. Freemake definitely does everything I needed and the quality seemed better than what Adobe was giving me. Freemake feels like early versions of iMovie that were easy to use with an easy learning curve. Try it yourself to see what I mean. Good luck and happy video making.

A great plugin for Firefox is called netvideohunter which allows you to download videos directly from Facebook, Youtube and many other sites.

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Posted by ict-design.org | Tom Johnson on June 6, 2011 in Design, Education, Technology

Tags: Concordian International School, Education, Facebook, Freemake Video Converter, IB Middle Years Programme, International, International Baccalaureate, International Schools, Video, Youtube

A website worth featuring

27 May

Attention:

I don’t do this often, but the Academic Earth website it definitely worth featuring. The website features videos from some of the best educational courses the world has to offer. For example lectures from: Berkley, Columbia, Harvard, Khan Academy, Maryland, Michigan. MIT, Norwich, NYU, Princeton, Stanford, UCLA, UNSW, UCS and Yale are all embedded within it.

The site is simple, intuitive and to the point. Videos load quick as they are often embedded directly through Youtube.

Proof:

I am not going to get into the debate about whether education is good for you or not.

However, I am going to point you to a study that actually says that online learning could be better than learning in a classroom. The study is called Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning. It is summed up well in this article by the New York Times.

The Bakers Guide also supports this theory. Alas, they are an online learning community and could therefore be viewing their evidence with a bias.

Whichever way the debate goes, you can’t go wrong with watching a view videos from the Academic Earth for educational growth, as opposed to the latest on the television. So what can you do?

Strategy:

Save Money. Instead of spending thousands of dollars for courses that you would like to take, go to the Academic Earth website and view the best of the best
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