Free Virtual School Chemistry Resources for you

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WE have an update from Frederic and Malik two of the international speakers at our SchoolNet Conference in July this year. They run the Virtual School in the UK </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Dear teacher friends in South Africa,<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We hope you are all doing great and, after having talked at length about #OER (Open Educational Resources) at the SchoolNet conference a couple of weeks ago we now want to start sharing with you the work that we are doing ourselves.<u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of you may not know yet what we are trying to achieve with our OER project 'The Virtual School' - we want to create 3600 free videos for secondary education in Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Maths, English and ICT literacy within the next 2-3 years. We have already created 300 videos accesible totally free here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/virtualschooluk/videos" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/<wbr></wbr>user/virtualschooluk/videos</a><u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Currently and during the next two months, with our talented young design team [watch them introduce themselves here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZId1Jmwpz4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/<wbr></wbr>watch?v=UZId1Jmwpz4</a>] we are working on the chemistry curriculum, and we have a growing playlist of videos here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?feature=edit_ok&list=PLW0gavSzhMlReKGMVfUt6YuNQsO0bqSMV" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/<wbr></wbr>playlist?feature=edit_ok&list=<wbr></wbr>PLW0gavSzhMlReKGMVfUt6YuNQsO0b<wbr></wbr>qSMV</a>. The other subjects will follow thereafter.<u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are hoping that you can all share the chemistry playlist, which will be growing by over 150 videos in the next few months, with the teachers at your science department and at the science departments at fellow schools. <u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It would also be fantastic if you could give us feedback on these videos, be it via email or with comments under the YouTube videos.<u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For those of you who want to download the videos for offline use you can use a download tool like Keepvid: <a href="http://keepvid.com/" target="_blank">http://keepvid.com/</a> [<wbr></wbr>you can watch a tutorial here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35myFjW_axY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/<wbr></wbr>watch?v=35myFjW_axY</a>].</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the very best from London from Malik, myself and our team,<u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Freddy"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div></div></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/UZId1Jmwpz4" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/35myFjW_axY" width="420"></iframe></div>

Resources Free Virtual School Chemistry Resources for you

WE have an update from Frederic and Malik two of the international speakers at our SchoolNet Conference in July this year. They run the Virt...

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