Archive for February, 2010

Vodpod is a very interesting website. In a way, it’s like a notebook of videos. In essence, what Vodpod does is it allows educator’s (or anyone really) to “collect” videos from any number of sources in one place. This way it makes it very easy to find later. Like bookmarks, you can tag them, put them in collections, or just collect them into your own giant pot of videos.

Uses in the Classroom

Vodpod can be used in many different ways for educational use. While it is not a site dedicated to education (it is more of a social sharing site for videos), it has more restrictions that can be placed on a users profile than other sites such as YouTube. This makes it much more “student friendly” since uneducational videos don’t make their way in. One way to place such restrictions is to create a “Vodspot.” You do this after you create a free acount. Within your profile you choose share, and then choose other. This takes you to the Vodspot creation page so you can set a design, and the collection of videos you desire. This also makes an easy website you can send student to in order to rewatch videos at home or as make-up assignments.

Another nice feature about Vodpod is it’s collection of widgets that can be easily integrated into blogs, websites, and other pages. Also, Vodpod has it’s own widget in Edublogs.

You can check out my Vodspot here to get ideas of how I use Vodpod in my classroom.