VidReader: Create Search Transcripts of YouTube Videos
Put a URL for a YouTube video into VidReader and it will generate a searchable transcript on the fly for you. There are a number of sample videos you can try to see how it works. Click on any words in the transcript and the video will jump to that segment. You can then share the video with the transcript using a link or a number or a number of other sharing services.
Interesting Articles
On the Cult of Pedagogy blog and podcast, Jennifer Gonzalez interviews the host of the We Teach Languages podcast about how teaching world languages has evolved. While looking for some resources for teaching about fake news, I stumbled across this 2016 NPR story about how to look out for fake news stories. It is a nice summary of a few useful techniques.. The University of Southern California Ed department has a new service called The Answer Lab, where scholars take questions and answer them with a summary of related research and a recommendation for best practice. The first two briefs are up on their website now.
Lincoln Award: Dear Martin by Nick Stone
Justyce McAllister is an honors student, a senior headed to an Ivy League school, and only one of a few African American students in his classes. He is also a scholarship student trying to escape a rough neighborhood, He learns about the teachings of Martin Luther King from his favorite teacher and he keeps a journal where he writes letters to Dr. King to help make sense of his life. Then, his best friend is shot by an off duty cop while the two friends are out driving and Justyce’s world is turned upside down. Audio Sample of the Book
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