Multimedia & Interactive Resources
This jog contains multimedia and interactive resource sites to use in the k-12 teaching and learning environment.
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1Introduction
Do you use multimedia and interactive resources to engage students in the learning process?
Use the links in this jog to find multimedia and interactive resources to use in the K-12 teaching and learning enivornment.
NOTE: This Jog is part of the Internet for Educators online course. These sites will focus on multimedia and interactive resources for the K-12 teaching and learning environment. Each site has an explanation on what you will discover or are expected to do. This jog can also be used as a stand alone resource.
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2Internet Tutorials - Multimedia on the Web
This tutorial gives a brief overview of multimedia tools.
http://www.internettutorials.net/multimedia.asp
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3Watch Know Learn
Free educational videos delivered over the Internet, submitted and vetted by teachers. The quality videos cover all major educational topics from elementary to secondary schools (or age range 1 – 18), and are Kid Safe! WatchKnowLearn has indexed over 33,000+ educational videos, placing them into a directory of over 3,000 categories. The videos are available without any registration or fees to teachers in the classroom and to students at home 24/7. If you do register then additional features are available for your use but you do not need to register to view or use the videos.
http://www.watchknowlearn.org/
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4Knowmia
This site has many educational resources including over 8,000 video lessons.
http://www.knowmia.com/
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5Teachers' Domain
This site offers free digital media for educational use from public broadcasting and its partners. You’ll find thousands of media resources, support materials, and tools for classroom lessons, individualized learning programs, and teacher professional learning communities. Users can search for materials via individual state standards, Common Core State Standards, or national standards from different organizations. Website users can create online profiles in order to share the resources they have learned for a particular lesson with others.
http://www.teachersdomain.org/
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6Curiosity in the Classroom
Discovery Education and Intel have teamed up to create Curiosity in the Classroom, a website designed to bring teachers, students and families on a journey to explore life’s biggest questions. The resources include free lesson plans and videos for students in grades 6-12.
http://curiosityintheclassroom.com/
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7Neo K-12
This site contains Kids science, math, social studies, history, geography and other educational videos, lessons, quizzes and educational games.
http://www.neok12.com/
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8The 10 Most Important Educational YouTube Channels for Teachers - Article
This article features You Tube for Schools, TED, eduEdutopia, The Khan Academy, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Expert Village, Nobelprize.org, Citizen Tube, Biography, and Smithsonian.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/07/10-most-important-educational-youtube.html?goback=%2Egde_2811_member_133932900
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9View Pure
IMPORTANT: You Tube video URLs (web address) directly put into a jog page will not play but if that URL is put into a tool like View Pure and then that new URL is put into a jog it will play. View Pure is good because it removes all the distractive features around YouTube videos . These features include : promoted videos, related videos , ads , and comments .It is really very useful when it comes to using videos in our classrooms.
http://viewpure.com/
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10Teachers Channel
Teaching Channel is a video showcase of inspiring and effective teaching practices in America's schools. The video library offers educators a wide range of subjects for grades K-12. The videos also include information on alignment with Common Core State Standards.
https://www.teachingchannel.org/
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11TED Ed
For years TED has fulfilled their mission of spreading ideas and inspiration through conferences, media and research fellowships. In April 2012 they took their mission a step further to assist educators and students worldwide. Understanding the evolutionary role of video in the modern classroom (and beyond), the new TED-Ed site offers a structured avenue for repurposing content by allowing teachers to "flip" any video on YouTube—including but not limited to TED-Ed videos—into a sharable lesson ripe with quizzes, informational copy and attention keeping animations.
http://ed.ted.com/
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12Khan Academy
This site states that it is the world’s free classroom. It contains Free step-by-step videos on a variety of subjects. Most of the resources are for upper grades but there are some for upper elementary and middle school.
http://www.khanacademy.org/
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13Hippo Campus
HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge. Hippo Campus is interactive and does require multimedia media tools, which are free plug-ins. The requirements are listed on the About page.
http://www.hippocampus.org/
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14MIT OpenCourseWare - High School
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/
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15Interactive Sites for Education
Choose from fun, educational, interactive games and simulations for math, english language arts, science, social studies, brainteasers, music, art, holidays and more!
http://interactivesites.weebly.com/index.html
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16Gamequarium - Videos
These videos are for the elementary grades.
http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/SqoolTube_Videos/
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17All My Faves - Kids
All My Faves is an appealing and simple alternative to traditional Internet searching. It provides a visual directory that includes the best sites in each category. This link features sites geared to kids and has many interactive resources.
http://kids.allmyfaves.com/
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18Open Culture Blog
Open Culture brings together free high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Their mission is to centralize content, curate it, and give you access to high quality content whenever and wherever you want it. Free audio books, free online courses, free movies, free language lessons, free ebooks and other enriching content — it’s all here. Open Culture was founded in 2006.
http://www.openculture.com/
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19National Archives - Teachers
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept by us forever. The site contains lesson plans and interactive tools like Docs Teach and Digital Vaults.
http://www.archives.gov/education/
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20Docs Teach
This interactive site helps students think through primary source documents for contextual understanding and to glean information to make informed judgments.
http://docsteach.org/
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21Digital Vaults
The National Archives new "Digital Vaults" exhibit delivers an online experience that is unlike any other. With a database of some 1,200 documents, photographs, drawings, maps, and other materials. Each record in Digital Vaults is also linked to the National Archives' Archival Research Catalog (ARC), so visitors who want to know more can take the first steps toward a research journey into the National Archives.
http://www.digitalvaults.org/
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22Interactives - Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner's free multimedia and interactive resources part of the Annenberg Foundation that help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. Many programs are also intended for students in the classroom and viewers at home.
http://www.learner.org/interactives/
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23National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM)
The NLVM is a free project from the National Science Foundation. The Library contains interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction for grades K-12. Check out the About Us page for system requirements.
http://nlvm.usu.edu/
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24Google Art Project
The Google Art Project is an initiative to provide thousands of high quality, high resolution images from museums across the globe in one place, making art’s history, meaning and beauty available in ways never possible before. Check out the collections area to list the full list of museums and begin exploring. Check out the Education section “Look like an expert” for teaching ideas.
http://www.googleartproject.com/
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25Game Classroom
This site safe is teacher-approved and features state-standard-aligned games for grades K-6. Also, lots of teacher resources,including videos, lesson plans, worksheets, and more.
http://www.gameclassroom.com/
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26ABC Ya
Great site for elementary students that covers a wide variety of subjects. Also has educational apps for mobile devices.
http://www.abcya.com/
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27FunBrain
This site is one of the most popular educational gaming sites around. Not only does this site cover a variety of subjects, it also caters to K-8th graders, and has nice teacher resources as well.
http://www.funbrain.com/teachers/index.html
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28Google World Wonders Project
The Google World Wonders Project is a platform which brings world heritage sites of the modern and ancient world online using Street View, 3D modeling and other Google technologies.
http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/worldwonders/
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29The Desmos Online Graphing Calculator
This site is a free interactive online graphing calculator. To begin to use the calculator click on the green button at the top of screen with the words Launch Calculator.
https://www.desmos.com/
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30ChronoZoom - Interactive Timeline
ChronoZoom is a timeline for all of history: From the Big Bang, to the time of the dinosaurs, to the present.
http://www.chronozoomproject.org/#/t55