that are age appropriate.This site requires you to first set up a username and password.The next set up option allows you to set up an age optimizer including infant, toddler, pre-schooler, kindergarten, young kid, and tween.This is helpful to guarantee that the information that you and your children are looking at will be appropriate.Totlol is affiliated with Youtube but is monitored by the users.The user cannot embed or l
ocate a url directly from totlol but there is a hyperlink using the video’s name that sends the user to the youtube site.The embed and url codes along with other sharing options are now available.If a user wants to remember a specific video on totolo they can set it as a favorite to come back later.Each time a user watches a video there is an option to rate, suggest an age group, and approve it for children.Users can participate in building collections of movies, screening new movies, or uploading their own movies.
There are many applications for this tool in education.The first and most obvious is that Totlol could be used as teaching tool.Teachers can easily find a short video to add into a presentation for fun or to reinforce their lesson.A quick search on WWII brought me to a fun Bugs Bunny animation.
This site is also student friendly.Students could search this site for images that they would like to incorporate in their own presentations.Teachers and parents will be assured that students will not find inappropriate images on their search.
Welcome to my educational odyssey blog. Currently I am an elementary art teacher as well as a student enrolled in Full Sail University's online Master's of Educational Media Design and Technology program. Thank you for your interest in my thoughts and discussions.
Very cool. There is going to be more and more out there that is "safe" for teachers and parents!
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