Teacher Tube

Many teachers out there now a days like to use visual things so their students can remember the subject better. At first you may think that it would be easier for you to get on YouTube and look up the subject that you are teaching your students but in most schools YouTube is blocked in just about every school. So Teachers got together and made a website just for them and their students. It is just like YouTube but you will NOT find inappropriate video on this website. You can feel free to let your students explore the site with there own freedom. TeacherTube main states "Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill. "

What can you do if you become a member of TeacherTube. You can upload and share your own videos, Assesments, lesson plans, notes and other files with our students and/or teachers. You can browse tons of videos, Subscribe to a members videos and many more things.

A part of TeacherTube that many people would like is that the staff of TeacherTube reviews all the videos and flags the ones that are inappropriate for students.

Here are some examples for videos you can use from the website:

50 States and Their Capitals
A Teacher could use this Video to help with the VA SOL of History. 
This is a fun video that has a fun song that the students would like and remember aka they would remember the 50 states and their capitals


Sum of a Triangle
A Teacher could use this video to help the students with the VA SOL of Geometry
This video is kinda boring and simple but it is right with all its information and would help some students understand Triangles better

TeacherTube is a good simple website. If your not a teacher you may not think that this is a good website. Its very simple to use and some of the videos are not very helpful but in many ways its as great website for those "Visual" teachers.

Try it out for yourself:

TeacherTube

Smart Board-Part One

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Smart Boards are seen all in schools now. From Elementary Schools to Colleges. What is so neat about them? There are many different ways you can use a smart board. You can use it as a blackboard, write right on the screen or play games on it to help the students learn. Smart Boards can be descired as a power point slide but more hand on. There are many actives that the smart board program comes with from matching, ordering, muiltply choose, key words, word guess and many more. All you have to do is fill in the blanks and the games are yours. You can add pictures, sounds and many more stuff.

Word Guess for example is alot like hangman. You can add the words and give hints. The students then would come up to the board and guess letters till they get the answer right. Behind the scences, the teacher would fill in the blanks on the Word Guess Tempele and can select different cartoons to play during the game.

Smart board is a great hands on way for the students and the teachers. There are many more things that can be done on a Smart board. Like teachers can make there own games and other things on the smart board. Which we will talk about later on in the month.

Smart Boards for Education

Here is the website for Smart Boards!

Google Custom Search

Google has a website that many teachers use for there students. Its called Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) On this website, Teachers can create a customized search engine that searches only across sites that the teacher has set up. This is a good way for a teacher to be sure that the websites that the students are looking at are appropriate for their ages. Another great reason to use Google Custom Search Engine is that when you are teaching the students about one subject and would like for them to use the internet to look up more information or see what they can find themselves. Google Custom Search Engine can let you do that with your students feeling freedom but you know that they are under control.

Art

Here is an Example of Google Custom Search.

Its topic is on Art for elementary Students.

Try it out for yourself.

and why not try to make your own.

Google Custom Search Engine