Tool # 3

I enjoyed viewing the video sites suggested in “Tool #3”. I had used Discovery education in the past and I like the fact that you can narrow your search by content area, topic and grade level. Looking at the other sites, the one I liked best was School Tube. It has very neat stuff; the videos are sorted in categories making it easier to find material for your class. I posted two videos; one on coins and the other one about parts of a plant. I choose those videos because I think one way to learn things is by putting them in a song. It makes it easier to remember. Embedding them was not that hard. The pictures that I posted are from Google image. I had used it before and I like the variety of pictures it shows. I chose those pictures (and videos) because they show things that we study as part of first grade curriculum. The picture about the moon phases activity is my favorite.
I also learned that the copyright and fair use law allows the educators to use materials without the permission of the copyright holder as long as the copy right material is a legal copy and it is performed or displayed during face to face teaching process in a classroom.