Educational Resource Library
View, share, and integrate educational videos, web sites, documents, and more
- View, share, and integrate educational resources into lessons
- Safe YouTube videos, web sites, documents, wikis, blogs, and more
- A safe way to bring dynamic content into the classroom
- Resources grouped into education-specific categories
- Integrated with the collaboration suite of My Big Campus
About the Educational Resource Library
The Web is full of great educational content, but traditional filters have no way of effectively handling the dynamic content of YouTube videos, wikis, blogs and more.
The Educational Resource Library brings together valuable resources, including dynamic content. With
My Big Campus, these resources are always allowed (not blocked by the filter) and can be integrated into resource collections and lessons for collaborative learning.
Features of the Educational Resource Library
The Educational Resource Library provides powerful, easy-to-use features:
- Easy browsing with resources grouped into educational subject-matter categories
- Ability to add any resources, from videos to web sites to documents
- Ablity to set permissions to district only, or all My Big Campus users
- Tagging and summaries for easy searching
- Grade-level resource recommendations
- User flagging
With the Educational Resource Library you can:
- Access, view, and share educational resources
- Utilize educational dynamic content, often blocked by web filters
- Encourage online research
- Safely view YouTube videos, stripped of peripheral content
- Submit a site, and know that embedded videos and other resources will also be allowed
YouTube in Schools
Technology learning and the integration of technology into the curriculum are vital to developing students’ 21st-century skills. Web 2.0 makes technology an active and collaborative rather than a passive medium.
YouTube is one of the most popular sites, for adults and kids, with more than 100 million US viewers (more than 20% under age 18) watching nearly 15 billion videos a month. Though many districts block access to YouTube because of risks to network security and student safety, access to YouTube videos is one of the primary requests school network administrators receive.
But in addition to YouTube videos, wikis, photo sharing sites, blogs and more have valuable content that traditional web filters can't handle. With the Educational Resource Library and My Big Campus, we allow schools to safely integrate that dynamic content into learning. It's just one of the things that makes ours a smarter Web Filter.
Lightspeed is committed to helping schools ensure a safe educational environment while maximizing Web 2.0 learning opportunities.