It is usually a challenge to get a group of children to sit down and focus on a lesson for more than 30 minutes. When standing up in front of them, the teacher can see the look of boredom in their eyes and knows that he or she should do something fast to regain their attention. This would be a good time to have a whole video or a segment ready to present.
Discovery Education makes this easy for educators by supplying them with thousands of videos. However, it does not just stop there. This is different from sites such as TeacherTube because it allows one to pick and choose which parts of the video they want to show and feel are relevant. Teachers can search the website for specific subjects and use the video in their lesson. The site is much more efficient than most because of the search and segment capabilities. With an endless supply of video lessons, Discovery Education is a site every teacher should have bookmarked on their computer.
Having a relevant video clip on hand is an excellent idea for those times when your lesson isn't as engaging as you had envisioned. And like you said, it doesn't have to be an entire clip when you use Discovery Education (unlike TeacherTube).
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