Thing 20 - Online Video and Audio Resources

Above are two video resources that I use.  I use United Streaming frequently.  I like that United Streaming offers student and teacher resources for most of their videos.  The videos are a little dated, however, they are still good videos.  I like that I am able to download the videos and watch them at a later time or that I can then view them even if the internet is not working provided that I have downloaded the video.

I also try to use Khan Academy as well.  Teaching science, I find the Khan videos are little advanced for middle schoolers.  I also wish that Khan provided "lessons" to use w/the science videos.  I have only seen lessons availble for math lessons.

I also use Teacher's Domain for videos and teacher resources.  Another video source that I use, that I did not capture a screenshot of is Annsburg Media.  These videos are also a little dated and do not provide student or teacher resources like United Streaming does.  The upside is you do not need an account, wherer as you do for United Streaming.

I use a couple of audio resources on a weekly almost daily basis in religion.  In addition to science, I teach middle school religion.  During the week we listen to the daily readings and reflections from the USCCB.org website and weekly we listen to a podcast from lifeteen.com about the upcoming Sunday Gospel. 

I really like trying to incorporate video and audio into my lessons.  In this class I was introduced to Dirpy and Masher.  I did try Dirpy and I was able to take a YouTube video and edit it to my needs.   I use a variety of videos from YouTube and I like the fact that I can edit using Dirpy.  I also tried Masher, but didn't get very far, only because I didn't have much time to really investigate its features. 

I also have used movie clips from Wing Clip?  I don't remember the site name, however, I have used the site to download movie clips that I used in a Gifts of the Holy Spirit presentation for Confirmation.

I prefer to use video over audio resources, because I think the students like to put a face to the voice and they seem more interested in the visiual aspect.   The weekly Gospel podcast that we listen to was "faceless" until we watched a video on the new Roman Missal, and "Bible Geek" was in the video. 

B. Sack