Tuesday, March 15, 2011

WatchKnow : High Quality Educative Resources at Your Hand

WatchKow is an online directory of hundreds of thousands of good videos currently available on the internet . It has more than 20,000 approved educative videos organized into a directory of over 3000 categories . WatchKnow works in the same way wikis do . Teachers suggest educative videos for revision and approval before these videos are assigned the appropriate categories for an instant inclusion into the directory .

Some features of Watchknow :

The following are some of the interesting features WatchKnow offers to its users :
  • It is completely free,
  • Videos are available without any registration
  • It aggregates the highest quality videos found on the World Wide Web,
  • Videos cover all major educational topics from elementary to secondary schools (or age range 1 – 18),
  • It provides a safe environment for students and its videos are kids safe
  • It provides a good search tool to look for videos
  • WatchKnow works on a plethora of sources such as :

watchknow sources

How can i get started using WatchKnow ?

Just log on to Watchknow main page . Click on any category on the left hand side and a list of videos will show up on the right side . browse through the videos and click on the one you want .
Watch this video tutorial to learn more

WatchKnow Video Tutorial

Applications of WatchKnow in education

WatchKnow is a very important educative resource for both teachers and students . You can introduce it to your students and show them how to browse through its different categories . You can assign them topics and classroom projects and let them work in groups to look for the relevant videos to support their assignments . I really like WatchKnow for the educative content it provides for kids and i hope you would give it a shot too.
That’s it about  WatchKnow : High Quality Educative Resources at Your Hand
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