TED-Ed’s mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Everything they do supports learning — from producing a growing library of original animated videos, to providing an international platform for teachers to create their own interactive lessons, to helping curious students around the globe bring TED to their schools and gain presentation literacy skills, to celebrating innovative leadership within TED-Ed’s global network of over 250,000 teachers. TED-Ed has grown from an idea worth spreading into an award-winning education platform that serves millions of teachers and students around the world every week.
Interested or curious about flipped and blended learning? TEDEd is a great place to start if you are already using videos from YouTube in your instruction. TEDEd allows you to add multiple choice and open-ended questions to videos, as well as provide a place for online class discussions and information do “Dig Deeper” into the topic. EdPuzzle is another similar tool with some great features that will enable you to greatly enhance video for instruction – inside and outside of your classroom.
