Special Assignment 2

Khan Academy – Khan Academy is a website designed to teach. There are thousands of short videos on the website that span the educational level of various age groups. The videos are alphabetized and access to them is easy and free.

Itunes U – Itunes U gives us 350,000 videos that can be seen on the iphone, ipod, and mac.
This website is very user friendly and has the potential to provide anyone, with the correct apple device, with information almost anywhere.

TED- This website features a wide range of speakers who present us with educational and motivational videos.

Khan Academy – This website features thousands of videos that teach. The short videos are convenient, free, quickly accessed. This program can be used by teachers to teach their students while familiarizing them with the technology and the internet. These videos aren’t just for children, so of the more advanced videos can be used by adults or college students how are trying to brush up on a particular topic.

Itunes U- Like the Khan Academy this website provides us with thousands of videos. The nice thing about Itunes U is that it is user friendly. Clips can be edited and added to making the process more customizeable.

TED- Filled with educational and motivational videos; TED has lots to offer it users. With the option to have conferences and conversations, TED is about bringing people together. TED offers videos in which speakers may differ from one video to the next.



Khan Academy – Of the three different websites, I like the Khan Academy the best. I see it as being the most useful tool for me as a teacher. Having the access to the Math and Science videos would be especially valuable for students if they missed class and needed to catch up. Math and Science often involve concepts that build off of each other, because of this, a student who is sick or out of town for a sporting event, family emergency, or anything else could access this website to stay up to par with the concepts that their missing in class.

Itunes U- Itunes U is a great educational tool that can be used by anyone with a Ipod, Mac, or ther apple products. The upside to this tool is its mobility. A student with a Ipod, Ipad or any other apple product that provides the student with the internet had the advantage of watching videos virtually anywhere.
This portability has the potential to good , that is a student can access this instead of wasting time in the car or on the bus , however it also has the potential to be ineffective if the person decides they rather play games or chat with friends.

TED- This website is great because it gives the user a wide range of speaker based videos. TED offers “TED conversations” and can be used for conferences. Of the three websites I feel that TED had least potential as a teaching aid. I’m by no means saying that TED isn’t useful, because it is, but from what I’ve seen I like Itunes and Khan Academy better.

This assignment has been a pleasant surprise. This assignment has showed me three new informative and educational websites that all have the potential to be very valuable learning aids. Of the three websites I personally liked the Khan Academy the best. I really admire the spirit and determination of Salman Khan. The idea behind the website is brilliant and with alphabetized and short videos the site itself is very easy to use. TED and Itunes U were also great sites that provide its users with thousands of videos and clips that cover a wide range of topics. Overall I think the assignment was great, all three websites are very educational and serve as great resources of information with just the quick click of a few buttons.