Videos/Podcasts
Discover videos and podcasts related to a variety of topics to include in Literacy Sessions
This is a conference similar to TED that features leading experts from a variety of fields sharing their knowledge and passions.
A video website containing expert commentary on a wide range of issues and ideas. Registered users of Big Think can comment on and discuss the videos or post an idea to have others discuss.
Offers a lot of content similar to and, in some cases, identical to that which is found on their television network. Good material to use in literacy sessions.
This site provides short video vocabulary lessons for beginning and advanced ESL students. For teachers, ESL Basics has a small collection of suggestions and ideas for teaching ESL.
Provides a good resource for locating educational videos that you can use in your classroom. You can search WatchKnow by content area categories and subcategories. With an account you can add your own videos.
Here is a free webinar to explore Google for Education and Grow With Google's Applied Digital Skills Curriculum, a FREE instructor-led, video based curriculum with 109+ lessons for upper elementary to adult learners. Each lesson includes videos, lessons, rubrics, certificates of completion, and more! Learn how you can use the free Applied Digital Skills G Suite curriculum to help your students develop critical, job-ready digital skills that meet state standards and puts them in the center of their own learning.
Zoom works well to connect one on one and in groups when you can’t be together in person. It doesn’t take long to get comfortable with using it. After watching this video you’ll know what to do to join a Zoom call so that you can relax and have fun connecting.
Source of unbiased, reliable, easy-to-understand answers and explanations of how the world actually works. Today, our writers, editors, podcasters and video hosts share all the things we're most excited to learn about with nearly 30 million visitors to the site each month. Learn more about our authors, and maybe even become one yourself.
Watch different short films, documentaries and listen to educational playlists on themes that tie in with Canadian curricula and address the important issues of the day.
Explore’s growing library consists of more than 250 original films and 30,000 photographs from around the world. We showcase our work at film festivals, on over 100 public broadcast and cable channels, and on numerous online destinations including explore.org, Snag Films, Hulu and TakePart.
22 Minutes as a Literacy Learner: Step into the shoes of a literacy learner! See how well you fare in a brief demonstration of the challenges facing literacy students. Explore literacy from a student's point of view, as well as tips and techniques for working with literacy students in your classroom.
Spark your intellectual curiosity with these original, thought-provoking videos. Watch, learn, share, debate. Only through questioning the world around us, can we come to better understand it.
A collection of free videos to help adult learners improve their reading, writing and numeracy skills
Every week, they look at a different everyday English phrase or piece of slang in this fun three-minute program. From BBC World Service
This video can be used in any training session to spread awareness of the importance of digital literacy. Other resources can be found at https://allofus.nnlm.gov/digital-health-literacy
This site provides short video vocabulary lessons for beginning and advanced ESL students. For teachers, ESL Basics has a small collection of suggestions and ideas for teaching ESL.
Word Work will help adults learn how to read and write word-by-word in 6 super easy steps. This approach has been successfully used by adult students to learn English word-by-word. They work at their own pace, on their own time to learn with confidence.
