Bringing experts from your field into your classroom is a tried and true method for giving students exposure to real-world scenarios. You’d be surprised how many people are willing to come and share their knowledge. Here is an example from the Business department at West LA College who brought in Dr. Sarita Jackson to talk about her recent visit to Cuba. Enjoy and don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel.
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New DDS Project – The West Student
Check out our latest series, The West Student.
The West Student story archive preserves, recognizes, and honors the diversity of the West student experience. The project provides the opportunity for West students to record and share their stories. At the same time, it creates an archive for future generations.
Here are our first 10 stories:
We’re really proud of our work, please subscribe and leave us a comment or two.
eduCanon Premium Free for the Summer!
eduCanon is an easy-to-use app that allows you to turn any YouTube video into an interactive quiz for your students. This summer is the perfect time to check it out.
If summer couldn’t get any better, you now have ALL eduCanon premium features free. We’ve extended to you all of our features until August 30.
I know during the school year you sometimes feel like this:
BUT NO MORE. Summer is here. Time to relax and recoup.
If summer couldn’t get any better, you now have ALL eduCanon premium features free. We’ve extended to you all of our features until August 30. That means you can download any lesson from our 150,000+ teacher-created lesson database or create a lesson from scratch with higher order question types. And of course, we’ll never limit access to the bulbs you download or create.
Hopefully now you feel a bit more like this:
100+ Video Sites Every Educator Should Bookmark
By: Alvina Lopez
Bringing multimedia into the classroom is a great way to engage students in learning. Supplementing lessons, opening up new interests, and offering inspiration, online videos make for an incredible teaching tool.
Educational Video Collections
Specifically designed for education, these collections make it easy to find video learning resources.
- TeacherTube: This YouTube for teachers is an amazing resource for finding educationally-focused videos to share with your classroom. You can find videos uploaded by other teachers or share your own.
- Edutopia: An awesome place to find learning ideas and resources, Edutopia has videos, blogs, and more, all sorted into grade levels.
- YouTube EDU: A YouTube channel just for education, you can find primary and secondary education, university-level videos, and even lifelong learning.
- Classroom Clips: Classroom Clips offers media for educators and students alike, including video and audio in a browseable format.
- neoK12: Find science…
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Great Tips to Makeover your Online Etudes Course Site #9
9. Welcome Video
Picture meeting your baby niece for the first time. As you lean over the crib instead of a smiling newborn you see a note stating her name, email address and office hours. Bummer.
Listen up, you are a beautiful, smart, accomplished, amazing person so get out there and share you with your students! A friendly welcome video lets students get to know you and makes a human connection that is sorely missing in many online classes.
They’re easy to make with a webcam and youtube account. Or you can contact Scott in the Digital Design Studio at 310-287-4567 or myself at 310-287-4592 and we’d be happy to assist.
Here’s a wacky one I helped make for Dr. Stephanie White who teaches Sociology –
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