Video Resources to Support Instruction

​There are many video resources available to teachers that can be used to enhance your lessons. Whether you are looking to “flip” your lessons, create extension or extra credit assignments, or just find great videos to support your teaching, this workshop is for you. We will explore resources such as Discovery Ed, Ted Ed, Watch/Know/Learn, Learnzillion, Ed Puzzle and more.

Workshop Symbaloo

We will use the links in the Symbaloo embedded below to bring us through the workshop. Here is a link to that symbaloo to bring it up in it's own window. - http://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/videoresourcesworkshop​  

Ice Breaker - Electronic Introductions

Use the link in the Symbaloo above to access the Padlet wall for this activity.

Activity 1: Get Thinking

In this activity based on the Discovery Education activity Get Thinking, you will use information from a video and your own experiences to reflect on the statement, "Using video for instruction can save our classrooms."
  1. Whole class - you will watch the video all the way through.​
  2. Whole class - watch the video again, taking notes this time.
  3. Don't forget to reflect on the prompt.
  4. Go to your appropriate corner.
  5. Plan your argument and choose a spokesperson.
  6. Groups present their argument.
  7. Change corners if you desire.

Activity 2: Create a Symbaloo

You will create a Symbaloo account and learn how to add tiles. Make sure you open a separate browser window to keep your Symbaloo so that you can keep track of the videos you find.
By the end of this activity you should have created a Symbaloo Webmix and have it in it's own browser window.

Activity 3: Find and Save Videos in PBS Learning Media

You will create a PBS Learning Media account and learn how to navigate the site. While there are many classroom features of the PBS Learning Media site you will be focusing on saving videos to you Symbaloo Webmix.
By the end of this activity you should have saved at least 3 videos to your Symbaloo Webmix.

Activity 4: You Tube Snowball Fight

  1. You will watch a video about You Tube Playlists and Channels.
  2. After watching the video, write one thing you learned from the video on a piece of paper. (Make sure your name is on the paper.)
  3. Crumple up the paper.
  4. On the count of three, everyone will throw their paper up in the air.
  5. Grab someone else's paper, read the fact and either write a supporting detail or another fact.
  6. Repeat several times.
  7. Take a picture of the paper and upload it to the Padlet Wall. (QR code to the right) Make sure you pose a reflection where it says "write something".
  8. Discuss.
  9. Take time to create playlists.
By the end of this activity you should have saved at least 3 videos to playlists.

(Un)Activity 5: Watch Know Learn 

After watching a video about WatchKnowLearn, you will find videos and add them to your symbaloo or your WatchKnowLearn favorites.
By the end of this activity you should have saved at least three videos to your Symbaloo or your WatchKnowLearn favorites.

Activity 6 - TED-Ed

We will look at a Ted Ed video together and engage in the activity. Then you will search for existing TED-Ed lessons and create one of your own.
By the end of this lesson you will have created and/or adapted a TED-Ed lesson of your own.

Activity 7 - Strategies

The Big One! - Create Activities and Share

Pull it all together! You will plan and share lessons that effectively utilize videos.
Use the chart below to share a link to a video and a description of how you will us it with your students. You can either add your ideas to the chart below or click here to open the document in Google Docs. You can even create a Google Doc of your own and paste a link to it in the chart.