Videos

A Vision of [College] Students Today - Michael Wesch, 2007

YouTube Link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

ViewPure Link:  http://viewpure.com/dGCJ46vyR9o 

A Vision of K-12 Students Today

YouTube link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8

ViewPure link:  http://viewpure.com/_A-ZVCjfWf8 

I Need my Teachers to Learn

YouTube Link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxHb5QVD7fo

ViewPure Link: http://viewpure.com/RxHb5QVD7fo  

Did you Know?

YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY

ViewPure Link:  http://viewpure.com/cL9Wu2kWwSY 

Educational Change Challenge

YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEHNhcdyMtc

ViewPure Link: http://viewpure.com/UEHNhcdyMtc

Social Media Revolution - more business-oriented, but about the world our kids are growing into

YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8

ViewPureLink: http://viewpure.com/sIFYPQjYhv8

How to Get Maths Wrong (Abbott and Costello)

http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=3963&title=Abbot_and_Costello_Maths_Problem

Examples of Tool Use in the Classroom

PBWorks and other wikis

Mr Boyer's Classroom Wiki

International Academy - Hub wiki for an entire school; links to many classroom wikis inside

Mrs. K's School is Cool!  

Room 15 Wiki 

Glogster

Examples here - scroll down to "Student's Work"

Promethean white boards

Promethean Planet - Search for specific types of lesson plans - many available

CIM Technology Solutions -  solutions for the classroom

eInstruction - Mobi and integrated classroom solutions

Mediasite - classroom video, audio, and screen capture

Twitter

Twitter in a History Class (college) - video about a history teacher who used Twitter as a tool in class discussions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WPVWDkF7U8

More information:

The UT Dallas Twitter Experiment: U.S. History II Homepage

Homepage for the US History course that used Twitter as a discussion vehicle, for more information or examples from the course

The Twitter Experiment at UT Dallas - comments from Monica Rankin

Several links about uses (and abuses) of Twitter

http://www.diigo.com/user/furchner/twitter