If you ever put the Discovery channel on, the chances are that very soon you’ll encounter an episode of Mythbusters. It’s one of my favourite shows on TV at the moment. OK, the kid in me never tires of watching large explosions, but there is some very good science going on too. They put movie [...]
Here’s yet another way to get hold of YouTube videos as flv files to embed into Smart Notebook and ActivInspire Pages, it’s called Freecorder and you can download it here. Videos from YouTube and like sites are transmitted and captured in FLV format. Many of these video sites cache the video on your PC if [...]
View Pure is another way to watch Youtube without all the on-screen clutter and dodgy comments. Basically you go to View Pure, enter the URL of a YouTube video and it strips out everything but the video. Very simple to use. You can even drag a button to your desktop which does the job. You [...]
06.04Oxygen Animation
Via the Bad Astronomy Blog, here’s a cool little video that would be a nice way of introducing some of the reactions of Oxygen:
05.05The Science of Scams
The Science of Scams was a set of hoax videos produced by Channel 4 in association with the amazing Derren Brown. In total there were 7 hoax videos which appear to demonstrate paranormal phenomena. In fact they’re all based upon real scientific principles. This hoax footage was been posted all over the internet in an [...]
04.27Animated Storybooks
Thaks to Anne Marie for making me aware of Frank Asch and his website. Frank Asch is an author whose work includes the Moonbear picture books . He has a great website which contains five animated story books complete with audio such as I Met a Penguin. He also has his own channel onYou Tube where [...]
One of the talks I gave at the Teacher2Teacher conference was on finding useful digital content to use on your Interactive Whiteboard. There’s more to the Internet than YouTube and Google Image search! Although this presentation was delivered mainly to Smartboard users, and the original presentation produced in Smart Notebook format, the information is very [...]
04.05Solar System Model
Want to build your own model solar system? Here’s a handy guide to work it all out to the correct scale. Simply put in the size of the Sun and the website will give you all the sizes and distances of the planets. http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/ And while we’re on the subject, here’s a great video that [...]
The Times Cheltenham Science Festival is a five day celebration of science, engineering and the arts, with a reputation for getting the best brains in the country together to probe the most topical issues. It takes place in June every year. Each year, film crews capture the best demonstrations from the extensive schools’ programme and [...]
NeoK12 is a very useful site that catalogues thousands of educational videos for teachers and students to use. They are grouped by topic – with a particular emphasis on Science, but also Social Studies, Maths and Literacy. There are also links to images and quizzes which could prove handy. Many of the videos come from [...]