Lab+activity+week 5

===After exploring the idea of YOUtube for children, select a clip and explain how you could use for education. ===  There's obviously a considerable amount of children's videos on Youtube or Zuitube. I find it quite interesting you can actually download a browser for kids to pick which video they would watch on Zuitube. I have used Zoodles for quite a while with my daughters and it's quite engaging as it picks videos and activities/games that are suitable for their age group.  I chose a couple of videos just as an example. = "I can sing a rainbow" video = I find little kids really enjoy this song and this video looks particularly suitable to review colours in a preschool setting. Interestingly enough, turning off the sound in a 2nd viewing would allow the children to yell out the colours as they go...

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= "How to make a paper plane" video = The second video I chose can be used in a Stage 1 class (year 1-2 perhaps) to introduce students to the wonders of origami during an Arts lesson. The video is quite simple to follow and short enough, which would be a plus for small children aged 6-7. I would probably explain a bit about "being bored" at school and making paper planes on this or just skip this part altogether.

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= My podcast =

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= Find an **educational weblog** that would interest your class mates and post on our class WIKI comment section =

There are tons of blogs I could post here but the ones I tend to read and that I think my classmates will also find interesting are those related to technology in education. I follow: Darcy Moore's blog This blog explores learning, education, digital technologies, books, teaching, photography & the impact of social media. (Australia) My Aha blog This blog is maintained by an EFL argentinian teacher and explores the issues of multiliteracies and web 2.0 in education. (Argentina) Classroom 2.0 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This website is not a blog but more of a social website for educators interested in the use of technology in education. I've been following it for a few years and it just gets better with time! There's lots of conversations going on among real teachers about what concerns us in implementing technology in the classroom.Contributors are from different parts of the world. (USA)