Content Sources for Teachers

 

Content Sources for Teachers

With the enormous amount of educational digital content on the web, teachers can make their lessons even more useful and enjoyable. However, it is crucial to find trustworthy websites that provide valuable content. Here are a few sources of digital content and remote teaching tools you might find helpful in the attempts to make students engaged.

31. Ted-Ed

Ted-Ed is a platform that enables you to create lessons. You can build a lesson around video content and create assignments to assess how well your student understands the material. You can also use ready-made video recordings from the specially curated “TED-Ed Originals” section that features classes made by educators around the world.

32. YouTube Teachers

YouTube Teachers is a YouTube channel that allows you to leverage educational videos to inspire and engage your students. It contains over 400 video playlists created by leading organizations and industry experts such as the Khan Academy, Ted-Ed, and PBS.

33. YouTube Edu

YouTube Edu is another educational YouTube channel that provides
extensive playlists on various subjects, from physics and chemistry to filmmaking and public speaking.

34. Ted Talks

Ted Talks are videos from industry experts and innovators on science,
tech, business, and education subtitled in over 100 languages. You can integrate Ted Talks into your lessons to spark creativity and innovation in
the minds of your students.

35. TeacherTube

TeacherTube is a free resource for teachers where they can share video lectures and other materials. You can upload your video tutorials and attach learning activities, assessments, and lesson notes to your videos. You can also browse other teachers’ content and connect with educators with similar interests.

36. SchoolTube

SchoolTube is a K-12 free video hosting platform that helps you integrate video content relating to subjects or concepts into your lessons without YouTube. The Free plan provides you with unlimited video hosting, video and audio creation apps, unlimited shareable playlists, automatic closed captioning, and a video quiz app.

37. Google Books

Google Books is a service from Google Inc. that provides access to unlimited books, documents, and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text, and stored in its digital database. You can save, bookmark, or download books relating to the concepts you want to teach in class.

38. Readworks

Readworks helps students from elementary school to high school build their background knowledge and enhance their literacy skills. As a teacher, you can create reading groups based on their abilities and interests, monitor reading comprehension, and assign extra-credit tasks for students as they complete reading assignments.

39. Bibsonomy

Bibsonomy is an easy-to-use tool that helps you manage your publications and bookmarks, collaborate with your colleagues, and find new interesting teaching materials for your research. You can tag publication entries and bookmarks to facilitate information searches.

40. Project Gutenberg

Gutenberg is a digital library with over 60,000 free ebooks that you can download or read online. Here you’ll find the world’s quality literature, with a focus on older works in the public domain.

41. Gapminder

Gapminder is a fact tank of animated statistics. The platform provides posters, interactive presentations, graphs, and handouts on global facts that can supplement your teaching materials.