Comments on: Tips from a teacher… http://cmisevalwace.edublogs.org/2009/01/08/tips-from-a-teacher/ Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:37:11 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Jean http://cmisevalwace.edublogs.org/2009/01/08/tips-from-a-teacher/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Jean Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:42:15 +0000 http://cmisevalwace.edublogs.org/?p=23#comment-4 Comment posted by Jean Anning with permission of Ken Price. Thanks Rod, great idea. Yes, there is a stack of good stuff on ItunesU. It also includes materials relevant to teacher PD as well (eg lectures from eminent educators, researchers etc) Plus it is a nice thing to be able to direct kids to educational iTunesU content that they can access and view on their home computer, iPod etc. This also gets around the bandwidth and blocking issues at school, and gives parents some support on making better use of that computer or iPod they bought their kids for Christmas. One thing we found was that it was not obvious to some teachers how to distribute the URL for a particular video or group of videos. However it's easy to do this - you can right-click (Windows users) on the video title or less obviously on the category title, and then use Copy ITunes Store URL However for some reason this copy doesn't always past as expected into emails etc - we've found that you may need to paste it into Notepad then copy it from there to paste into email or other delivery systems. Not sure why this is - might be easier for others. The ability to link to categories and straight to specific videos is very useful. For example this is the Stanford Uni "teaching and learning" category http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.1292699567.01292699572 while this one takes you directly to a specific video on "Intelligence in Wikipedia" http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/researchchannel.org.1475689839.01475689845.1797444812?i=1571705300 It's important to stress to teachers and students that the URLs require you to have iTunes installed. Other sources of educational video content include TeacherTube http://www.teachertube.com/ and TeachersTV http://www.teachers.tv/ Cheers Ken Comment posted by Jean Anning with permission of Ken Price.

Thanks Rod, great idea.

Yes, there is a stack of good stuff on ItunesU. It also includes materials relevant to teacher PD as well (eg lectures from eminent educators, researchers etc)

Plus it is a nice thing to be able to direct kids to educational iTunesU content that they can access and view on their home computer, iPod etc. This also gets around the bandwidth and blocking issues at school, and gives parents some support on making better use of that computer or iPod they bought their kids for Christmas.

One thing we found was that it was not obvious to some teachers how to distribute the URL for a particular video or group of videos.

However it’s easy to do this – you can right-click (Windows users) on the video title or less obviously on the category title, and then use Copy ITunes Store URL

However for some reason this copy doesn’t always past as expected into emails etc – we’ve found that you may need to paste it into Notepad then copy it from there to paste into email or other delivery systems. Not sure why this is – might be easier for others.

The ability to link to categories and straight to specific videos is very useful.

For example this is the Stanford Uni “teaching and learning” category

http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.1292699567.01292699572

while this one takes you directly to a specific video on “Intelligence in Wikipedia”

http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/researchchannel.org.1475689839.01475689845.1797444812?i=1571705300

It’s important to stress to teachers and students that the URLs require you to have iTunes installed.

Other sources of educational video content include TeacherTube http://www.teachertube.com/ and TeachersTV http://www.teachers.tv/

Cheers
Ken

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