FREE VIDEOS FOR DOWNLOAD

Here's an interesting site, Next Vista for Learning, http://www.nextvista.org/ to download videos. Though the collection is not huge but the site looks clean with videos put under well identified categories.

A good site to explore for your subject needs and for some general topics as well.

Hope you like the site !

NASA IMAGES - AN EXCELLENT RESOURCE

I write about an excellent resource site for NASA images, http://www.nasaimages.org more of a compendium on NASA. The site has excellent images and videos for download. The teachers could weave out entire projects fro children from this site.

Though i write only about tools that are neutral but couldn't resist writing about this excellent site.

Hope you find the site as useful as i have found it to be.

My Nominations for Edublog Awards

My nominations for Edublog Awards 2009 are as mentioned below:

Best individual blog : Mathematicslearning

Best class blog : Social Science

Best resource sharing blog : Math Class

Best educational wiki : Exploring Geography

Best educational use of a social networking service : Passionate Teachers

Best new blog : Biology

EDUBLOG AWARDS 2009

Hi,

The Edublog awards ( http://edublogawards.com) are back. Get set to nominate your favourite blogs/ wikis/ social networking, etc. and support them whole heartedly. Just remember to nominate them in the right category.

Also, lets be honest and support/ nominate only worthy blogs/ wikis/ social networks i.e. those who deserve to be nominated.

One imporant thing - you cannot self-nominate your blog/ wiki/ social network, etc.

Narinder

HAPPY TEACHERS DAY

Wishing all teachers in India a very "Happy Teachers Day". Wish there were more such days to celebrate for teachers. This small piece does deserve a place in this blog on technology as "Teaching/ Teacher" is incomplete without the "Learner". Teaching is more about relationship (teacher-pupil) than anything else. Any amount of technology is useless unless there is acceptance from the learner and there is the right impact on them. Lets pledge on thid day to mould our teaching-learning to how learners learn rather than how we teach. Sharing with you a beautiful poem about Teacher ( Author Unknown).

Quiz Creation Software

Quiz Faber, http://lucagalli.net/ is software to enable you to create multimedia quizzes and save them as HTML documents. With 6 options to select from, the user can create a good quiz. Also, the tool provides option for providing explanation and hints for the answers.

Moreover, it allows to embed into quizzes multimedia objects as images, sounds and videos, since it is compatible with the more widespread Internet formats (JPEG, GIF, MID, MP3, AVI, MPEG), also with Macromedia Flash, Apple QuickTime, Liveupdate Crescendo, RealAudio, RealMedia browser plug-in.

A nice, simple to use tool for creating HTML quizzes easily.

2 More YouTube Video Downloader

Sharing with you a couple of more youtube videos downloader to help you download videos for
your students with ease for later use and sharing

YouTube Downloader 3000, www.download3000.com/download_19063.html
It allows you to easily grab and save desired youtube video to your local computer. Simply paste the URL of a video into the program, press Start , and the AVI file will be downloaded into the selected folder

YouTube Downloader, http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/

It's software that allows you to download videos from YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, and many others and convert them to other video formats.

The program is easy to use, just specify the URL for the video you want to download and click the Ok button!

It also allows you to convert downloaded videos for Ipod, Iphone, PSP, Cell Phone, Windows Media, XVid