Videos for PD

The following are links to educational videos I use for professional development workshops and presentations with teachers. If you know of other videos that should be included in this list, please add a link as a comment to this page. Some of these videos are hosted on YouTube, TeacherTube, or other sites as embedded Flash media - Tips for downloading offline copies of Flash videos are also available.

Schools Need to Change:

  1. Expect Differentiation - Australian Leadership Video (Marco Torres)
  2. Learning to Change - Changing to Learn (COSN)
  3. A Vision of Students Today (Michael Wesch)
  4. Did You Know 2.0 (Karl Fisch)
  5. Pay Attention (Darren Draper)
  6. Digital Students @ Analog Schools (Students of Marco Torres)
  7. Teacher Movie (Marco Torres)
  8. Do Schools Kill Creativity? (Sir Ken Robinson)
  9. Urban Academy: Where Testing Is Anything But Standard (EduTopia)
  10. Administrator Movie (Wesley Fryer)
  11. Strive to Engage not Enthrall (Wesley Fryer)

Web 2.0

  1. The Web is Using/Us (Michael Wesch)
  2. Information Re/Evolution (Michael Wesch)
  3. Blogs in the Classroom (Will Richardson, made by Intel for NECC 2004)
  4. Perspectives on Classroom Blogging (Wesley Fryer)
  5. RSS in Plain English (Common Craft)
  6. Wikis in Plain English (Common Craft)
  7. Social Bookmarking in Plain English (Common Craft)
  8. Google Documents in Plain English (Common Craft) - On BlipTV also
  9. District Policies Regarding Blogs and Wikis (YouTube user gfrancomtube)
  10. Blogs and the Juvenile Delinquent (YouTube user gfrancomtube)

Humor

  1. The Internet Has Crashed (The Onion Spoof video)
  2. Introducing the Book
  3. Father Guido Sarducci’s Five Minute University (Saturday Night Live Skit)
  4. Walkthroughs and Learning Objectives

Student-created Digital Storytelling Examples

  1. SFETT (Students of Marco Torres)
  2. MabryOnline Podcasts (Students of Mabry Middle School, Cobb County, GA)
  3. UthTV Media Gallery
  4. Apple Education iLife Award Winners
  5. Center for Digital Storytelling Examples (not all made by youth, however)
  6. First and Second Grade Films (Mr. Needleman’s Classroom)

Cyberbullying Prevention, Internet Safety, Safe Online Social Networking

  1. A Common Sense Approach to Internet Safety (Common Sense Media and Google)
  2. Think Before You Post (Ad-Council Advertisement) - Also on TeacherTube
  3. Delete Cyberbullying (Ad-Council Advertisement)
  4. Ad-Council Advertisement (kitchen table conversation)
  5. Hero in the Hallway (story of students banding together to stop bullying)
  6. Growing Up Online (PBS FRONTLINE special from January 2008)
  7. Predator Movie (Video created by a Utah student and his principal to warn about online and F2F stranger danger)
  8. Social Networking: What Parents Need to Know (Broward Co, Florida Sheriff’s office)
  9. The Ryan Halligan story (click “video” in sidebar)
  10. Social Networking in Plain English (Common Craft)
  11. For Parents: Why do Teens Use Social Networking Sites (YouTube student video)

Creative Commons / Copyright / Fair Use

  1. Get Creative (my favorite)
  2. The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy (also available from Temple Univ)
  3. Other Creative Commons Videos

Additional resources and links used in my professional development workshops and presentations are available on teachdigital.pbwiki.com. Karen Montgomery’s excellent PD resources are also available on her wiki “Thinking Machine.”

There are currently 20 responses to “Videos for PD”

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  1. 1 On August 11th, 2007, Paul Wilkinson said:

    http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66

    Ted Talks. Sir Ken Robinson.

    This one is a must for your category Schools need to Change.

    Cheers

  2. 2 On August 11th, 2007, Cathy Nelson said:

    WOW thanks Wes (and all other original contributors!)

  3. 3 On August 11th, 2007, Mathew Needleman, ADE 2007 said:

    I’d be honored if you’d add a link to our first and second grade films under student created:

    http://www.videointheclassroom.com

  4. 4 On August 11th, 2007, Nick Senger said:

    Terrific resource! I’ll blog about it sometime in the next few days. Here are some other videos you might want to add (Some of these come from a post I just wrote this morning called “10 Inspiring Teacher Videos to Lift Your Spirit”:

    Another cyberbullying ad from the Ad Council:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYaWNYXpBis

    The Indigo Love of Reading Fund Ad
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDNm4y7_2Xw

    Taylor Mali on what teachers make:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxsOVK4syxU

    Social Networking: What Parents Need to Know:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7ifJjA9UWY

    PowerPoint Extreme Makeover:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC1OixM_118

    Other video resources that are not teacher-specific, but still helpful for teachers:

    VideoJug: http://www.videojug.com/

    Expert Village: http://www.expertvillage.com/

  5. 5 On August 12th, 2007, Paul Wilkinson said:

    http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=e8079d8ddf7d06d26ab5

    This is another one for you. An example of clayanimation made by some year 5 pupils.

  6. 6 On August 12th, 2007, Fiona said:

    Many thanks Wes…was asked just the other day where the best place to source these videos was. I have a tag on delicious so have added your page too, cheers for sharing.
    http://del.icio.us/f.grant/video

  7. 7 On August 12th, 2007, Cary Harrod said:

    Wesley,

    Check out the link below which I found at James Tubbs (www.mrteacher.blogspot.com)site. Be forewarned, it packs a wallop. James uses it for his presentations on internet safety.

    The Ryan Halligan story- http://www.ryanpatrickhalligan.org/

    Thanks for the list!

  8. 8 On August 12th, 2007, Kyle Brumbaugh said:

    Wesley:

    Many of the TED talks are good… The one I always show my tech students is the one by David Pogue.

    http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/7

    The other video I show for the effect is “EPIC 2015″ - It is the updated version of the first EPIC 2014 video. Sometimes referred to as ‘Googlezon.’

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fUHtc37MC8

  9. 9 On August 12th, 2007, And He Blogs » links for 2007-08-12 said:

    [...] Videos for PD » Moving at the Speed of Creativity (tags: video pd education fryer) [...]

  10. 10 On August 12th, 2007, 3 Professional Development Resources for Teachers said:

    [...] at the Speed of Creativity. Wesley has added a terrific new section to his site called “Videos for Professional Development.” You won’t earn any credits or clock hours by watching these videos, but you’ll [...]

  11. 11 On September 13th, 2007, Cary Harrod said:

    Here’s another great one found on Bump on the Blog:

    http://bumpontheblog.etowns.net/?p=213

  12. 12 On October 15th, 2007, A Vision of Students Today » Moving at the Speed of Creativity said:

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  13. 13 On November 27th, 2007, Thoughts about educational change inspired by videos and blog conversations » Moving at the Speed of Creativity said:

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  14. 14 On March 11th, 2008, links for 2008-03-11 « The View From My Window said:

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  15. 15 On March 20th, 2008, Mathew said:

    Thank you for this list. Here’s an animated film that might be appropriate for “Schools Need to Change” category about Rip Van Winkle visiting schools of today after being asleep for one hundred years:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm1sCsl2MQY

  16. 16 On March 31st, 2008, links for 2008-03-31 « The View From My Window said:

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  17. 17 On April 17th, 2008, Jim said:

    A good Web 2.0 intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiP79vYsfbo

  18. 18 On May 21st, 2008, Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech » Blog Archive » I need more videos said:

    [...] his classes‘ podcasting approach. It’s a great example of how a classroom operates. Wes has begun to compile a few of these and so has Scott Mcleod. There are some great ones here although many are talks that in round about [...]

  19. 19 On September 1st, 2008, Daily Diigo Links 09/02/2008 « Chalkdust101 said:

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  20. 20 On October 31st, 2008, Beware: YouTube video annotations may be inappropriately disruptive » Moving at the Speed of Creativity said:

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