Edutopia

  The most distinguishing feature of the site, in my view, is the very well designed and filmed videos about a lot of inspiring practices in actual classroom. That provides us with a lot of ideas that we may able to implement in the classroom in the future. I skimmed through  them and found these videos covered wide areas of topics of contents and we can get to know a lot of innovative practices and hands-on experiences.

     Average five minutes length of every video would lead people to think that the video is too short to convey anything solid and educational, but I think it is just strike the right balance. The site has around two hundreds videos and all the contents are about very recent practice. If they are too long, the site will not be  able to keep it up to date that quickly. It is my first reason. Secondly, educational practice, in most part, is similar across different settings, some innovative practice mostly only take place in a limited space in everyday education. So if the director can grasps them well, a very well designed five minutes video can show to the audience all the change very successfully. Furthermore,  for many experienced teachers who knows most tricks in teaching and learning, they will get bored to see all the things they are doing everyday again in a video that claim to be showing some new practice. So the video need to be short and dense in terms of contents just like what they have on the site.