BBC BiteSize

BBC BiteSize: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education BBC BiteSize has small, useful clips and info about curriculum topics. There’s quite wide coverage, but the clips are quite short. This is a useful top-up to other learning, not an education programme by itself. Also, some of the clips can feel a little patronizing. But overall, this has great visualisation tools to…

Minecraft GamED Academy

GamED Academy: http://gamedacademy.com/ I can’t recommend this one because we haven’t tried it yet, but I’m intrigued. The idea is that the lessons are all in Minecraft. Kids watch, learn, and build as part of their learning process. There are curricula for maths, history, science and other stuff too. I’m not sure how this will work…

Crash Course (General)

Crash Course is a YouTube channel which creates video courses covering a wide range of topics – World History, US Government, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Ecology, Literature, Philosophy and more. The courses are being actively developed, so the range is expanding all the time. There are more detailed notes of specific courses elsewhere on this site. For…