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This is my introductory post presented as a dramatic skit to #etmooc http://etmooc.org. Hope you enjoy it! 
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A little taste of the new show for http://ds106.us that will start on January 14, 2013.
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An animated highlight of John Seely Brown's Keynote Presentation, "Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Learner in the 21st Century," at the 2012 Digital Media an...
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Film offers us a powerful tool to shift awareness and inspire action. It offers a method to break our dependence on the mainstream media and become the media ourselves. We don't need to wait for... This post lists 100 world changing documentaires with short explanations. The website has over 1150 films listed so if you are searching for a documentary this is one site to check out. Via Beth Dichter
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Robin Good: If you are looking for a good curated resource for video documentaries, and you are not looking just for mainstream stuff, Chockadoc provides over 32 different collections and over 2000 free video documentaries, immediately viewable online.
Categories include everything from "health" to "war". See all the categories isted here: http://i.imgur.com/I39C7.jpg
The service is free, it requires no registration and it is ad-supported.
Recommended.
Try it out now: http://www.chockadoc.com/ Via Robin Good
Deanna Dahlsad's comment,
September 18, 2012 5:00 AM
I'm rather surprised you consider this curation... It's not that it's product-centered, but that it's a limited pool from which any sort of curation can be done.
VideobeuZ's comment,
January 11, 2013 5:53 AM
I think it's curation when they curate their all content from YouTube
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"Popcorn is required for reading this post. So is a good wifi connection on a beach near you as we hope you're enjoying the last days of summer, which we hope will be filled with relaxation, but also mental stimulation.
That is why we have compiled the top 10 videos from the summer featured on Big Think. How were the top 10 decided? You voted by clicking on them, and it's a good selection, covering religion and skepticism, genetics, philosophy, physics and human biology, among other topics. Enjoy!"
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This a visually stunning video montage with clips compiled from the Discovery Channel's series "Planet Earth."
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This is site doesn't just find educational videos, but it can find specific words or phrases within the script of the video and help you find them in context. Very useful tool.
Via Nik Peachey
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"Victoria Tyson, a top performing 10th-grade world history teacher at School Without Walls in Washington, D.C., shares her teaching tips. Teachers are human, after all, and they don’t like to be bored any more than the rest of us.
As we report, teachers in the Washington, D.C., public schools can now watch their best performing colleagues at work in the classroom.
Instead of setting up a camera at the back of the room and film a whole class, C-Span style, the district teamed up with a reality television company. The result is a collection that showcases a range of teachers, subjects and grade levels. In interviews filmed in a style familiar to anyone who’s watched “Survivor” or “The Bachelor,” the teachers explain a little about what they are trying to get their students to learn, and then quick jump cuts land on snippets from the classroom.
Most of the videos will be available only to Washington teachers who have access to a password protected portal. Jill Nyhus, senior director of technology in Washington, said that the district wanted to show parents and teaching recruits, though, a few samples of what happens in D.C. classrooms. So, the district has made a few available on its Web site and YouTube."
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"This simulation shows the first test drive of NASA's Curiosity rover. This tool, called the Rover Sequencing and Visualization Program (RSVP) helps engineers plan the rover's drives, modeling pebbles and bumps in the terrain. The visualization component of the RSVP tool is called Hyperdrive.
The tool shows the sped-up plan for the drive; the actual drive took place at 7:17 a.m. PDT (10:17 a.m. EDT) on Aug. 22, 2012, and lasted about 16 minutes. The drive demonstrated that the wheel actuators, or motors, are working. To start its forward drive, Curiosity's drove about 3 feet (90 centimeters), rotating its wheels 180 degrees, before stopping to take pictures of the wheels. It then continued forward another 12 feet (3.6 meters), totaling 15 feet (4.5 meters) of forward motion. The rover then rotated 120 degrees, stopping again during the turn to take more pictures. Finally, Curiosity rolled backward 8.2 feet (2.5 meters) and snapped more pictures from its final location. The total drive distance was nearly 23 feet (7 meters)."
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"Khan Academy released their Introduction to Programming modules today and they're really great. Go play. Here are my favorite pieces:
Changes to the code affect the output dynamically.
No rendering, no compiling, no reloading. Change the width parameter of a rectangle in the code and the rectangle changes without any extra effort on your part. You can hover your mouse over any parameter and a slider appears, letting you change that parameter smoothly over a range of values. (Bret Victor modeled this kind of programming environment in his Inventing on Principle talk. Try it out on the tree generator.)
Contrast this with Codeacademy where you have to click "Run" or press "Enter" to see the result of your work. Or just now, when I was working on my front-end web development final project, I would make a change to my code in one window, click over to my web browser in another, and then click "Reload" to see the result. That friction may not sound like much but it often makes programming feel less creative and more mechanical."
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"2013 Children/Youth Inaugural Response, featuring real voices of real young people ages 5 to 25 talking about what they want Congress and President Obama to accomplish in the next four years. This video is a project of the Children's Leadership Council and powered by SparkAction. Add your voice at bit.ly/kidsinaug."
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"This is my [Ben Wilkoff] introduction for #etmooc in which I use a whole bunch of public domain videos in order to illustrate what I am talking about (sometimes with better results than others).
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Any company, organization, or individual hoping to take advantage of digital video to educate or entertain the populace or promote a product should have a video strategy in place before springing for the time and equipment involved. Educators, of course, are not exempt from the core tenets of solidifying a viable video strategy — especially when it comes to how exactly they plan to take advantage of everything the medium offers. Via Steven Engravalle
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Jon Bergman and Aaron Sams lead two free, archived webinars sponsored by ASCD. PDFs of handouts are also included. -JL
From the website:
"Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day, Part One (June 12, 2012) Part one of this two-part series began with a discussion of the techniques of the flipped classroom and the structure of a flipped lesson—from the technical to the teaching.
"Flipped-Mastery Learning Model: Students in Charge of Learning, Part Two (September 12, 2012) In this session, Bergmann and Sams, walked through their transformation from classroom lecturers to flipped-mastery learning pioneers." Via Jim Lerman
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Video creation projects are some of my favorite things to do with students. I like video projects for a number of reasons not the least of which is that students generally enjoy them too. I like video projects because when they're organized properly students have to write, research, produce, and revise just as they would if they were writing a story or research paper. Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Video Projects to Try With Your Students: Via Pippa Davies @PippaDavies
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The natural landscapes shown as captured by satellite imagery is as beautiful as anything artists have ever created. Some of the colors shown in the video may seem otherworldy. Most of those color anomalies are due to the fact that remotely sensed images have more information in them than just what we see in the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Some of these images are processed to show different bands so we can visually interpret data such as what is in the near infra-red band, skewing the color palette.
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What is #edchat hashtag on Twitter? Who are the moderators? What are the details? How do I join?
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"Flex, Zap, Roll: NASA's Curiosity Mars rover performs a series of firsts this week -- flexing its arm, laser-zapping a rock and rolling on its wheels. See the rover's landing site, named for author Ray Bradbury on the day that would have been his 92nd birthday."
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"Team members celebrate in JPL's Curiosity Surface Mission Support Area when images are received confirming Curiosity's first drive on Mars on Aug. 22, 2012. "
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Multiple means of representation is a fundamental principle of Universal Design for Learning. As of today, there’s a promising new free option for presenting information in a wide variety of ways.
First knowmia is an online site that offers a collection of some 7000 curated videos organized under main headings or searchable using key words.
It is also is a free app for the iPad where a teacher can create video lessons. You can design each step in a lesson, record illustrations as you draw them, and create sophisticated animation sequences with a simple stroke of a finger. Here are some main features of this app:
Via Kathleen McClaskey
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