May
31
Category: Social bookmarks, Software
Having had trouble with my last post, I decided it was time to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress to overcome video embedding problems. Hooray, it’s been a success! Remembering to deactivate the plugins first always helps! Updating can be a challenge but once done, it’s a great feeling of achievement and version 2.5.1 [...]
May
27
Category: Uncategorized
As YouTube fills up with every bit of junk one could imagine, the good stuff is getting buried. This is more than likely what has fostered the development of TeacherTube. On exactly the same principle as YouTube, TeacherTube has a fabulous lot of useful video clips useful for the classroom. Better still, the newest feature [...]
September
27
Category: Media, video
The article eSchool News article Video on demand boosts students’ math scores by Corey Murray, Assistant Editor on June 29, 2004 provides research evidence of the effectiveness of the use of short video clips to reinforce learning in the classroom. This article specifically reports on success in maths results that were released on June 21 [...]
May
12
Category: video
I’m sure I’m not alone in weighing up the logistics of using streaming video as a means of delivering video content to classrooms over the school network. As media delivery diversifies to include DVDs and digital video clips, along with the traditional VCR tape, we have to see the writing on the wall for the [...]