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Saturday, 27 February 2010

My Top 5 educational videos

There are loads of wonderful creative videos out there but these would be my top 5 (in no particular order). Very powerful messages through some great visuals. No suprises here, I'm sure you have all seen them before, yet for once more - Enjoy :-)



  1. Did you know? by Karl Fisch (Shift happens)
  2. Video Description: Created by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod; Globalization and The Information Age


  3. A Vision of Students today by mwesch
  4. Video description: a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.



  5. Social Media and Open Education by courosa
  6. Video description: Here is the final take of the course trailer for EC&I 831: Social Media & Open Education, an open graduate course offered by the University of Regina. Read more about the course and learn how to participate here: http://eci831.wikispaces.com>



  7. Common Crafts series of videos
  8. For example, Social Networking in Plain English Video description: A short explanation of social networking websites and why they are popular.
    http://www.commoncraft.com/



  9. The Machine is Us/ing Us by mwesch
  10. Video description: "Web 2.0" in just under 5 minutes.
    http://mediatedcultures.net

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