Digital Video Clips for Early Education

Download any of our 52 videatives (text + digital video clips) to increase your understanding of children's thinking & learning. Add authentic action to your workshops, lectures, and online courses. View these short video clips (with or without the text) on any personal computer, present from a video projector to a group, or distribute to your students over the Internet.

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Videatives make general principles of child development and early education come to life. Students will learn to "see what children know", not by testing, but by careful observation. Teachers will have higher-level conversations with children. Children will learn how to reflect on their actions and receive better support for their thinking.

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View Video Clips from Lisa Fiore's Workshop at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan

Lisa Fiore, Director of the Early Childhood Program at Lesley University in Boston, has been a long time advocate of digital video for the professional development of teachers.   On November 14th Professor Fiore will conduct a workshop at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan titled " Using Video Clips to Understand the Significance of Play for Young Children" and will feature six video clips from the Videatives video library.   To view these clips as a playlist from our Video Streaming Service click here.  

Here are some comments from Lisa about her workshop:

" Documentation, such as digital video, serves to complement other forms of assessment that teachers are encouraged to use. The benefit (one of many) of video is that teachers can visit and revisit ordinary learning moments with children as well as for their own professional growth and planning. Rather than feel perpetually frustrated by the imposition of standards and curriculum, it may be possible to use video documentation to open lines of communication and diminish the ambiguity associated with a numerical score or rating."

 

 

 
 

 

 

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Videatives, Inc. creates text + digital video clips that support your understanding of young children. These "videatives" will explain how to extend children’s thinking during ordinary moments into rich learning encounters and how moments of spontaneous play relate to developmental theory.
   
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Connect to our website and view over 115 video clips with text-based introductions. Create a playlist for your staff/students at no extra charge. Use our search engine to match video content to your topics . Include a note in the playlists for your staff/students to read. Hide our introductory remarks if your prefer. Click here for a free 14 day trial subscription with full access to our video library and playlist features. Click here to purchase a 1, 6, or 12 month subscription. If you already have a subscription (trial or active) click here.

 

Online Course: Fall, 2008

Announcing our popular course on Observation and Documentation for the Fall of 2008. This course can be taken by individuals or included as a component in an existing course. Rolling admission fee is $25. Come and leave as you wish. The course will end when it seems appropriate.

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