Chronicle Herald Online & Khan Academy

A couple of quick hitters for this PD week.

 

We have access to the Chronicle Herald online for individual or class use.

 

The login is http://halifaxchronicle.can.newsmemory.com/nie.php 

The username is:  brownt@ccrsb.ca 

Password:  123456

 

A demo/instructional video can be found by clicking on the white question mark in the red box along the top of the page.

 

Another excellent site is Khan Academy.  An extensive collection of videos is available, broken down into individual skills for most topics including Math, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Economics & Computing.  Accounts may be set up to track usage, and/or to reward students with "badges" for achieving various learning objectives.

 

http://www.khanacademy.org

 

Apps for Khan Academy are available for IOS and Android.  Khan Academy is very popular with those who are using the Flipped Classroom: a popular (fairly new) technique used by many educators where students learn their content/skills  at home using videos, classroom time is then used to further discuss this content rather than lecturing.  Check it out here:

http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education?language=en

http://www.edutopia.org/blogs/tag/flipped-classroom

http://www.njea.org/news-and-publications/njea-review/february-2012/the-flipped-classroom-reversing-the-way-we-teach

 

OURCLOUD, Eduportal & TED

For those who might have missed it, two important  NS Department  education links to setup.

 

The first being The Ednet Cloud located on NS Department of Education servers is an online drive where one can download and upload documents & create or share documents between students & teachers on various devices including laptops, desktop, tablets and phones. It is also available as an app on Apple IOS or Android - called OwnCloud.  It provides up to 2 GB of storage space.  Here is the link to login to your account, using your ccrsb email address & password.  https://ourcloud.nspes.ca   For further information check out this site for instructional videos http://dvl.ednet.ns.ca/ourcloud-video-series. 

 

The second Department of Education site that is very valuable is Eduportal - a one stop site that provides many valuable resources from an Online Video Library (10,000 video clips on many topics), Teacher Webspace, Shakespeare Online, EBSCO databases. Moodle, and access to OurCloud.  To setup an account you will need your teacher number.  The setup page is https://edapps.ednet.ns.ca/eduportal/Login.aspx.

 

For excellent thought provoking videos, TED and TED-ed are beyond reproach. The TED video site has established quite a name for itself with insightful, intelligent, concise 18-20 minute videos on a variety of topics keying on the fields of technology, education and design. Recently the website surpassed the total of over 1 billion views.

Seeking to educate and develop a younger audience. TED-ED was born to achieve this goal and has already surpassed 10 million page views. Web addresses are www.ted.com and ed.ted.com/

Apps are available in IOS and Android for TED