http://www.go2web20.net/app/?a=Kideos
The Web 2.0 tool that I have worked with this week is Kideos videos for kids. There are multiple categories including the Top Ten, Baby Einstein, Barney, favorite book characters and cartoon characters, as well as cute animals, Disney channel programs and movies, Dr. Seuss, fairy tales, Mickey Mouse and friends, the Muppets, Nursery Rhymes, Trains and Machines, Wiggles, Teletubbies, Super Heroes, Spanish and Portuguese, educational videos, kids, and songs. There are also varied age groups that you can use to make selections. You can create your own playlists.
This site was of special interest to me as I teach elementary music and am looking for creative ways to add film and music to my lessons for each grade level, Kindergarten through Fifth grade. With such a variety of characters to choose from, as well as content, there are many ways that Kideos could enhance my units of study. There are so many things out there on the Internet that are not appropriate for younger students to see. It is encouraging to find a tool that provides variety and content that is age appropriate and could be used to make learning fun and engaging.
An added element for using Kideos would be to inspire the students to be able to write and create their own videos using music, a favorite story or nursery rhyme, or possibly a tall tale or fairy tale, or their own created characters and settings. Our students are very in tuned with music, art, and drama, and this would be a way to pull all three of those elements together to record and share with one another and possibly parents.
Kideos was created by Earlier Media to provide safe video viewing for children of all ages. This idea was inspired by a couple that were looking for safe online videos for their daughter that was hospitalized, and they were led to create the company to provide other parents and children the opportunities for safe online entertainment.
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