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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  • a brief video that shows what children know
  • connections to a blog inviting comments
  • notes from the field of early education

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Let us help you find digital video clips that match your interests and requirements. Using this free service, answer a few questions and we will email you the matching titles of videatives (text + video) for you to download on-demand. For large orders (10 or more), we will mail the videatives on a custom CD.     Click here.

 

 

Videatives on YouTube for Google Talk

Ellen and George presented a talk open to all Google employees at their headquarters in Mountain View, CA on April 17. The talk, Playing You Way to Harvard, discussed how play improves understanding, meaning, and love of work. The entire talk and presented video clips have been edited and placed on YouTube. It is rather long to watch in one sitting, but the 106 minutes could serve as a resource or assignment to your staff or students. The last 40 minutes contain a great set of questions from the audience. Click here to go to the video at the YouTube site.

 

 

 
 

 

 

Videatives Downloads • eCourses • CDs
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.
   
Consulting • Conferences • Content Hosting
Videatives, Inc. offers professional development services through regional conferences and onsite or online consulting, including inexpensive Internet webcam visits with Dr. George Forman or Dr. Ellen Hall to your own college classes or staff meetings.

 

Free Course for Purchase of CD

Discussion Starters CD - Join us to discuss the eight video clips on this CD. Dialog with us so we can clarify our own views of early childhood education by using video clips to explicitly define what we believe. Purchase this CD now and we will email you instructions on how to enroll in a course that never closes. Click here to learn more.

Also check out Classroom Clips, a set of five video clips that emphasize best practice in the areas of early science, communication, literacy, math, and symbolization.


Online Course: Summer, 2008

Announcing our popular course on Observation and Documentation for the Summer 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.

Click here to read a summary and/or to register.

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