I had a great time at Ulearn, the aftershocks adding to a quite surreal week!
I'm going to add a couple of websites which I hope you will find useful to use in your classroom. You may or may not use them already, I don't know, but they're useful anyway!!
Hopefully you are a BIG user of youtube in your classroom! It's without a doubt one of the web's best resources. Two of the unfortunate features of youtube are a)the often colourful comments underneath, and b) the increasingly random video links down the side of the page.
One way to remove both of these annoying problems is via the website http://viewpure.com/.
It's easy to drag this website address into your bookmarks bar for easy use. Once you find a youtube video you want to use, copy and paste the url into the viewpure box and you video will be 'purified!!!!'
Another fantastic website for use with anything animals - www.arkive.org
This website is a virtual ark for videos, images and information to do with animals anywhere! It has a massive library of images and videos of New Zealand creatures, as well as any world wide animal. There are also several basic online games available on this site which relate well to endangered species etc. It is being improved all the time and you are able to bookmark your own resources on the site for easy access.
I hope you find these sites useful and I'll pop back in a week or two to add a couple for.
Ka kite,
Alistair
Awesome Alistar, have attached button to my computer and added the link to our school del.ic.ious.
ReplyDeleteNever heard of viewpure- what a great concept! Thanks Alistair.
ReplyDeleteThanks Alistar, Have added the pureview link, great thing to have as yes, youtube can have some xtras that are undesirable!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea especially in school where youtube can have some surprises when viewing with young students. Youtube can be so entertaining and motivating in the classroom this adds another safety net.
ReplyDeleteGlad it's been useful - will add a few other ideas as the weeks roll on.
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