http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Category.aspx?CategoryID=99
Thanks to Isabelle Jones for tweeting this link.
This looks a very useful resource for language educators. They have brought together videos on foreign language learning, along with many other subject areas, and put them all in one place.
This is what they say:
"Imagine hundreds of thousands of great short videos, and other media, explaining every topic taught to school kids. Imagine them rated and sorted into a giant Directory, making them simple to find. WatchKnowLearn is a non-profit online community devoted to this goal."
There is a strongly hierarchical structure to the site with the main languages category broken down into separate languages (e.g. French), then with further sub-categories (e.g. song, grammar, sounds, basic vocabulary). Each of these categories is then broken down further. For example, within the French grammar section you get adjectives, gender, imperfect tense and so on. Not sure this makes for very easy navigation, but I daresay you get used to it. All the videos I saw come from Youtube, but I do see the point of putting them all in one place.
There are no ads on the site and there is a full screen mode, since each video is, as far as I can see, linked straight to Youtube.
WatchKnowLearn is a non-profit organisation. For more detailed information go here.
Thanks to Isabelle Jones for tweeting this link.
This looks a very useful resource for language educators. They have brought together videos on foreign language learning, along with many other subject areas, and put them all in one place.
This is what they say:
"Imagine hundreds of thousands of great short videos, and other media, explaining every topic taught to school kids. Imagine them rated and sorted into a giant Directory, making them simple to find. WatchKnowLearn is a non-profit online community devoted to this goal."
There is a strongly hierarchical structure to the site with the main languages category broken down into separate languages (e.g. French), then with further sub-categories (e.g. song, grammar, sounds, basic vocabulary). Each of these categories is then broken down further. For example, within the French grammar section you get adjectives, gender, imperfect tense and so on. Not sure this makes for very easy navigation, but I daresay you get used to it. All the videos I saw come from Youtube, but I do see the point of putting them all in one place.
There are no ads on the site and there is a full screen mode, since each video is, as far as I can see, linked straight to Youtube.
WatchKnowLearn is a non-profit organisation. For more detailed information go here.
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