Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Who wants to be a Millionaire?

Mark E. Damon's excellent Who Wants to Be a Millionaire PowerPoint template is available here replete with sound files.


Scroll down the page to Templates to Download. Click on the icon and you will down load a Zipped file. The file needs to be 'extracted' (i.e. you right click on the file and choose Extract all)

You will then have a new folder (no zip) and you will be able to see the sound files. Just click on the PowerPoint file and sounds will play. Edit the file to suit the questions you'd like to ask.

Let me know how you get on.

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Teacher's Pet

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Monday, September 28, 2009

Alternatives to YouTube

Top Ten alternatives to YouTube:

1. TeacherTube
Site designed for teachers and content uploaded by teachers. The site includes a range of lesson plans and other resources.

2. SchoolTube
Similar to Teacher Tube and includes content created by students also.

3. Teachers' TV
Professional videos with classroom resources and a new section on Ready to use in Class videos

4. How Stuff works Part of the Discovery Communications suite of resources this site contains a very wide range of videos on a huge number of topics.

5. DotSub
Watch videos with subtitles in your language, upload your videos, create your own subtitles! Collection covers a wise range of languages.

6. Vimeo A site for sharing videos - lots of interesting short films by professional film makers. For example:

The White Dress from Patrick Jordan on Vimeo.

7. CNN Student news
Good for questions about media literacy.

8. Next Vista for learning
Next Vista for Learning is a site created by US teacher Rushton Hurley it is an "online library of teacher- and student-made short videos for learners everywhere."

9. Futures Channel for videos intended for classroom use on a range of subjects.

10. GoogleVideo Google serves up YouTube of course as they own it! but you will find other videos there - use minus sign in your search query (-youtube) to remove YouTube from the results.

Subject Specific:
Science: Untamed Science
History: The History Channel
Maths: Math_A_Tube

Feel free to add your suggestions in the comments box. I'd love to hear from you!