Video Creation Resources
Students may prefer videos created by their own teacher rather than an online sourced video. With that being said, here is a list of resources for you to use, if you choose to create your own videos for your students.
Educreations is an app that allows teachers to record their voice and iPad screen to create video lessons that students can access at any time, any location. Videos can be shared via email, Edmodo, YouTube, or you can download and store them in Dropbox or Google Drive. As the owner of videos, you can control who can see your video.
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Screencastify is a Chrome extension that can be used to screencast your chrome browser. You can create professional quality videos and share them instantly via a Google Drive link or publish them directly onto YouTube! |
Activities Resources
Use these websites to enable students to explore and discover various mathematical concepts. You may be able to find pre-made activities or you can create your own.
Desmos offers teachers a library of interactive activities that show students what their answers mean and give them the opportunity to improve their thinking and revise their work. They also allow devices to connect students to each other so that they can see their classmates' thinking, ask each other questions, and create challenges for each other.
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Geogebra provides teachers with a library of over 1 million free math activities that can be used to allow students to explore and discover new content. Activities include simulations, exercises, lessons, and games!
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Learning Management Systems
These websites provide not only videos, but also practice for students to master the content. The websites track student progress and provide teachers with the data that they need to help better student mastery.
EdPuzzle allows teachers to personalize already existing videos from YouTube, Khan Academy, Crash Course, or videos of their own and enables them to track their students' understanding. Teachers can see whether students are watching the videos, how many times per section, and if they are understanding the content. Lessons can be interactive with teacher voiceovers and questions within the video allowing self-paced learning.
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Khan Academy is a personalized learning dashboard that provides instructional videos, practice exercises for math levels from kindergarten to calculus. Their adaptive technology identifies strengths and learning gaps, which empowers learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom.
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LearnZillion provides teachers with a library of interactive math lessons, videos, quizzes, and assignments for students. It also tracks student progress and achievement on lessons and quizzes and reports the results to the teacher's dashboard for assessment.
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Playposit allows teachers to control pace and personalize learning through branched pathways. Their editing platform allows anyone to easily enrich any online video with a variety of powerful interactions. Teachers can provide live feedback to students to increase long-term retention, which triples learning efficacy over a standard video. Teachers also receive immediate, easily understandable data on student performance to effectively address concepts and maximize instructional time. Teachers can also sync rosters, create and assign video experiences in order to enrich a blended learning classroom and eliminate tedious grading.
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Sourced Videos
These websites provide a library of video of various mathematical content for teachers to pick and choose from.
HippoCampus.org is a resource that offers rich multimedia content, including videos, animations, and simulations on subjects taught from middle school all the way to college.
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TEDEd provides teachers with a library of original animated videos and a platform to create their own interactive lessons to help curious students around the globe bring TED to their schools and gain presentation literacy skills.
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TeacherTube is a free community for teachers to share instructional videos and content. It contains over 400,000 educational videos and is not restricted by most districts' firewalls (as YouTube might be).
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