Profile Information
fuseschool - a global OER programme
United Kingdom
Roles
Educator, Library Media Specialist / Librarian, Instructional Technology Expert
Levels
Grade 7 (ages 11-12), Grade 8 (ages 12-13), Grade 9 (ages 13-14), Grade 10 (ages 14-15), Grade 11 (ages 15-16), Grade 12 (ages 16-17), College, Undergraduate
Subjects
Mathematics, Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, World Languages, Computer Technology, Career and Tech Ed, Health/Physical Education, Creative Arts, Educational Support
About me
fuseSchool makes free education in Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Maths, EFL and ICT - for kids & teachers around the world.
We are on a mission to provide outstanding education to those who need it most - so that they can improve their lives and communities. Sponsored by the leading Social Learning organisation 'Fuse Universal', our specialist teachers & talented animators make sure that every video in our library is of outstanding quality. The best thing: it's free to the world as Open Educational Resources under a Creative Commons License.
Besides here on YouTube EDU, we also make the library available on our open fuseSchool Platform. Visit www.FuseSchool.org for a free, personalised learning & teaching experience and join the learning revolution!
Wherever you are in the world: If your fire burns for education as a human right email us at info@fuseschool.org and join our OER movement of teachers, NGOs, Charities, Universities & Edtech companies!
Many teachers around the world have been looking to the US at what the guys at Khan Academy are doing. We have met many teachers who think they can do this too - explaining the easy and difficult concepts of the secondary curriculum in the Sciences or in Maths. Many teachers think: I want to take advantage of 21st century technologies to reach tens or even hundreds of thousands of learners – now that’s one really big classroom!
But how can you manage to make videos in your spare time?
Nowadays, any teacher can record her or his voice (and therefore a lesson) – because recording devices are all around us: pcs, macs, ipads, phones – the list continues. But making a video based on an audio lesson takes time and animation skills – and not all teachers around the world have both.
No doubt: At 'fuseSchool', we want to co-create resources with those select few 21st century prototype teachers. But we want more: we want to give all motivated Science and Maths teacher who haven’t got this visualisation ability the same opportunity to get their lesson to the hundreds of thousands of learners out there waiting for good teaching to come their way.
Our creative design team picks up the 2-3 min audio lesson, and turns it into an engaging video. Let’s say for instance for the topic '
Anybody, including the contributing teacher, can pick this video resource up for free and integrate it in a blended learning model with their own students.
You can view our videos co-created with UK teachers to date under: http://www.youtube.com/virtualschool