This week we attended the webinar put on by Focused Education Resources for the District wide Pro-D day. I attended two zoom sessions in the morning. One was on Twig and ClickView. It was presented by Mike Silverton. I also attended the session by Lisa Read in which she presented KnowBC.com, ProQuest and Gale in Context. I will be reporting on the first session on ClickView and Twig in this post.
Click View is almost like a streaming service. It includes a wide array of educational videos organized by topic. It also offers supplementary resources for teachers to use with students. Teachers can print, save or share these resources with their students by giving them their own access to the website. It is a paid service for those who are not employed at a school but educators affiliated with a school have access this resource. There are both short films approximately 3 minutes long and full length features available on a variety of topics. Films have a transcript so teachers can pick out relevant clips. Resources in ClickView include multiple choice questions, info sheets, and lesson plans. This is definitely something new Teachers will want to have in their arsenal.
Twig includes units on different subjects including Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Human Geography and Math. It is one of the few resources out there that offers educational films to teach Math. The videos are high quality and recent. Accompanying resources are designed so the film can be paused to complete worksheets at different stages.
These and other great tools can be found at the focused resources website. I checked out the French resources and unfortunately they were quite low level! Still, for primary these would be very useful indeed.
