http://www.neok12.com/
The Web 2.0 tool that I picked this week is neok12.com. NeoK12 is a website that provides educational videos, lessons and games for grades kindergarten to twelfth grade school kids. All of the lessons and videos have been screened so it is 100% kid safe. This website covers many subjects such as physical science to math. What I love about this website is that is it free to sign up. Have you ever spent numerous hours online trying to find a quick educational video to show your students? Then this is the website for you. I am assisting in a kindergarten classroom so I geared my exploring this website for kindergarten. When I looked at the subjects I saw that there is an area for English. In the English part, there is a link for a Phonics section. When I clicked on the phonics link, it took me to a page that provided me with pictures, school presentations, videos and lessons all to do with phonics. How great is this! Not only does it search for all the “phonics” videos and lessons but you are able to create your own slide show presentation with the pictures and articles that is provided for you. When creating the slide show, you select a photo (the source is Flickr), you read the article by learning more and copying the facts to the presentations, then you edit your presentation by putting photos and text together and save it which allow you to share it online. The only limitation that some of you might have is that most of the videos are provided by youtube.com.
Maybe what we need to do as a group is to start a petition to have Youtube unblocked. There has to be a way to prevent "adult" content from filtering through. To be honest, most of the kids who want to view Youtube videos find a way...
ReplyDeleteYou Tube is usually blocked here at our school, but it allowed me to play the videos. Yeah! I don't teach Science but passed along a great video for Simple Machines that Bill Nye did to our Science teacher. Lots of great stuff for Social Studies though. This is great!
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