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A Great Collection of Science-Oriented Tutorial Videos
The internet provides a great learning environment, and lots of sites offer collections of free videos that you can watch in order to teach yourself about various subjects. One excellent example, which has been mentioned a couple of times recently in our forums, is the Khan Academy. It hosts over 2000 short videos, instantly available for you to watch online within your browser for free.
The site is very much science-oriented, and covers subjects such as maths, algebra, physics, chemistry, finance and so on. Each video is short, concise, educational, and very easy to follow. The videos have already been viewed some 44 million times in total, and it's not hard to see why. Not only is the content great, but the titles are clearly laid out on a single page, ready for you to just click on any that you want to view.
Definitely worth checking out, especially if you're a student or you know someone who is.
The URL you need is www.khanacademy.org.
My thanks to reader Jay Jani for recommending this site.
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This link:
http://www.khanacademy.org/downloads
allows you to download the Khan Academy exercises and all of the videos you want to and they will work interactively on your local machine. I have Khan Academy and all of the math videos on my little Acer netbook - no net connection needed!
Or - and I think most teachers will find this easier - just check out the individual videos you want from home, and then click the "Download" link (located right below the play button/volume control on the Khan Academy video). It will save as a .flv file to your local machine. Then you can copy them to a USB drive and play them on your machine at school. If you don't have a .flv player on your machine, the following (VLC) is free and open source and safe:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Youtube does have much great stuff up there but it is usually surrounded by all sorts of distractions (some interesting!)
Especially for your kids, get a good downloader (get Firefox and don't leave home without it!)
Drop them to your PC and perhaps even convert to DVD for big screen watching? (Much easier to entice kids that way ... it's "TV")
THank you people here, this is a great Site.
many thanks for this link, it's very good.
There is no equivalent to khanacademy.org on the web (AFAIK).
Seems great, but there are some pitfalls. Check out this post (not my blog) for an alternate view: http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/2011/04/02/khanacademy/
Thanks for that link. Very interesting discussion.
...yes, and a very stimulating video too - a must watch I'm tempted to say:
http://www.veritasium.com/2011/03/khan-academy-and-effectiveness-of.html
I have recommended this site to several professional tutors and have received very positive feedback. Tutorials and presentations on this sight are a fantastic way to augment lessons and maintain the interest of the student.
A 3g or 4g connection to your laptop or tablet provide almost unlimited flexibility.
Months ago I recommended this site to my grandchildren and friends. If I had to pick ten sites on the Internet that add the most value to our worldwide education, this would be close to the top of the list. Keep the site free. It's donation supported.
Just to point out that a lot (all?) of the videos are held on YouTube and that's blocked by a lot of educational establishments - including my own :O( But there's a lot of good stuff there and I've been pointing students at it for homework for a while.
Grumbs
Thanks for the info . . . site looks quite informative.
Does anyone know of a similiar site as it concerns damage insurance in personal and/or commercial lines as it concerns Canada and also Quebec (Canada)
Best way to kill time online ever! Even better than reading comments to youtube videos or reddit or facebook. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Outstanding. Have some teenagers that will surely benefit from this.
Thanks
Great, absolutely great! Amazing! Or, as one follower on Khan Academy on Facebook wrote: "my brain is happy".
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll surely use it a lot.
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