Online Video

I'm not going to lie.. I have always just assumed that if any teacher were to use a video in the classroom, they would have found it from YouTube. It is obviously the largest free video sharing resource available, which leads it to contain much inappropriate and negative material for a classroom. I have learned that there are a variety of educational video sites, much like YouTube in the sense of convenience, accessibility and validity, such as EduTube, SchoolTube, and Ted. 

I particularly like Ted because of the many categories: Talks, Speeches, Playlists, Conferences, Ted Blog, Ted Community, and especially TedEd. By using Ted Ed, you can create lesson plans that incorporate video to better engage students and activate learning. You can use, edit, or completely create your own lesson on Ted-Ed. Also, since the videos are educational based, there is no fear of running into an inappropriate advertisement prior to the video, where this is likely to happen on YouTube. You can browse Ted Ed by Series, Subject, or Flips - which is neat because you can find the most viewed videos, which are prompt to be the best videos.

A couple of videos that I found beneficial and may use in my own lessons are:

How Pandemics Spread by Mark Honigsbaum, to supplement the Health curriculum, and

Situational Irony: The opposite of what you think by Christopher Warner, to supplement the English Language Arts curriculum.