7 Ways to Use Video In Your Classroom

Wideo , an animated video creation tool that I've reviewed a couple of times, recently published a video highlighting seven ideas for u...

Climate Science Explained in 11 Animated Videos

Planet Nutshell produces a lot of excellent animated, explanatory videos. This morning while exploring their catalog I found a set of eleve...

5 Tools Students Can Use to Create Alternative Book Reports

This afternoon someone emailed me asking for some suggestions for tools for creating book trailer videos. It has been two years since I last...

5 Apps and Sites for Creating Animations

This afternoon on Twitter I was asked for some recommendations for tools that students can use to create animations. The first one that came...

The Old Man and the Sea - Animated

Open Culture has just published a list of seventeen classic stories that have been turned into animated videos that are now available on th...

PowToon Looks Like a Great Tool for Creating Explanatory Videos

PowToon is a new service for creating explanatory videos through what appears to be a simple drag and drop process. PowToon provides drawin...

Videos - Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are was one of my favorite books as a child. Its author, Maurice Sendak, passed away today at age 83. Read The New Yo...

Nine Shel Silverstein Stories Animated

Last year I shared an animated video of Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree . Yesterday, through an Open Culture post, I discovered eig...

Shakespeare Animated

Yesterday, I Tweeted a story from Open Culture that highlighted 12 animated Shakespeare stories. In my investigation of the video source t...

Explain It To Me Explains Iran

I'm kind of hooked on CNN's Explain It To Me series of videos. Each video offers a nice, succinct explanation of topics in the news...

Greek Heroes in Popular Culture Through Time

Greek Heroes in Popular Culture Through Time is a series of short animated videos from The Open University . The videos offer an analysis o...

The Fall - Animated

Here's another super video that I found via the Open Culture blog . In the video below you will see a five minute animated adaptation of...

Who is Mark Twain? - An Animated Explanation

Currently, a lot of the eleventh grade students in my school are reading Huckleberry Finn in their Language Arts courses. This morning the O...

A Fun Overview of the US Presidents

Many schools in the US are closed today for President's Day. For those who are in school today, here's a fun overview of the US Pre...

Video - The Giving Tree

Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree was one of the first books I read on my own as a child. I also recall watching an animated film of t...

Xtranormal To Start Charging for Much More

As Larry Ferlazzo reported yesterday, Xtranormal is drastically overhauling its pricing structure . Under their new policies users will no...

12 Ways to Create Videos Without a Camera or Software

It wasn't that long ago that creating videos in your classroom meant that you had to have access to cameras and editing software. That i...

Why Can't We Walk in Straight Lines?

Last week on my way to school I heard an interesting story on NPR. The story, A Mystery: Why Can't We Walk Straight? examines an excerp...

Video - The Animated Tell Tale Heart

Today marks the 161st anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's death. To mark the day Open Culture posted the animated short film The Tell Tal...

Free Guide - Making Videos on the Web

Creating videos is one the activities that my students really enjoy doing. They enjoy it, in large part, because the finished product is som...