Mr Marwood's Marvelous Movies
You’re busy, I’m busy, we’re all busy. But I have the time to post a daily dose of inspiration, so bookmark this page and you’ll find a new movie link every day.
Monday 12th May 2014
Bob Marley - Three Little Birds It's the first day of Key Stage 2 SATs, the monumental waste of time, effort and energy with which we round off children's time in Primary School. Cliches abound, so let Bob Marley's ditty be your mantra for the week. |
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Friday 9th May 2014
2:30 with Hannah Barnes: The Women's Tour of Britain As you may have noticed, cycling in booming. Here's 21 year old Hannah Barnes on women's cycling and the Women's Tour of Britain, currently making its way around East Anglia... |
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Thursday 8th May 2014
How did Mathematics Begin? Stimulate discussion about maths with this excellent animation about the history of mathematics... |
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Wednesday 7th May 2014
Learn Chinese Holidays - Children's Day - 六一儿童节 Children's day is approaching, and this film will provoke lots of questions. Is 1932 'the olden days'? Is "to play like a child without any concern" a reasonable pursuit for an adult? Can this film help you learn Chinese? |
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Tuesday 6th May 2014
The Number Song by Mr Ray Is daft, it's repetitive, it's catchy. Which is just what young children like... |
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Friday 2nd May 2014
18 Wheels on a Big Rig by Trout Fishing In America Roman Numerals came up at school this week, and this is one of my favourite songs which features I, II, III, IV, V, VI and so on. Altogether now... |
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Thursday 1st May 2014
Prince and the Muppets - Starfish and Coffee The Purple One is back! And in honour of his first full UK tour in an age, here's a fine song to get your writers' creative juices flowing. WHat would you put in your lunchbox? |
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Wednesday 30th April 2014
ABC by Doc Possum This week, I've been working with Year 2s who don't know their alphabet. Doc Possum has been helping them learn; a welcome alternative to 'Twinkle Twinkle'. |
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Tuesday 29th April 2014
Pasi Salhberg: Educational Inequality in England The Finnish maestro summarises GERM, the Global Education Reform Movement and looks at educational inequality in OECD countries before summarising 5 keys to improving education in England. You might be surprised by what he has to say... |
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Monday 28th April 2014
Jack Johnson - The 3 R's Jack Johnson's fine tune helping children to rememeber to 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle'. With added three times table. |
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Friday 25th April 2014
The Vowel Family - They Might Be Giants This is a very odd song, but it sticks in your head. More importantly, it sticks in children's heads which is useful if you are helping them to learn the vowels. |
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Wednesday 23rd April 2014
MathMovieNetwork As it says, Made by Students for Students - inspire your classes by showing them what others can do... And if you are taken by the idea, you can submit your own movie too. |
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Tuesday 22nd April 2014
OK Go - Here It Goes Again Well, we're off again - at least those of us in school after the Easter break. I could have posted pretty much any OK Go video, but this one seems apposite and, if you haven't seen it, it's a treat... |
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Thursday 17th April 2014
David Weston A final link to ResearchED's You Tube channel, featuring David Weston discussing 'bridging the chasm between practitioners and researchers'. |
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Wednesday 16th April 2014
Laura McInerney Putting another face to a name, here is Laura McInerney discussing her seven most needed answers from education research at ResearchED 2013. |
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Tuesday 15th April 2014
Tom Bennett - This year's Brain Gym Now that everyone is out of school and has some time on their hands, here is the first of three suggestions from ResearchED, Tom Bennett's 'national conference for teachers, researchers, and anyone interested in evidence-based education.' First up, the man himself. |
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Monday 14th April 2014
The Neuroscience of Memory - Eleanor Maguire SInce we're all fascinated by memory at the moment, thanks to Daniel Willingham and Daisy Christodoulou, here's some actual science for you from the Royal Institution's lecture series. |
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Friday 11th April 2014
University Challenge Grand Final 2007 - Warwick v Manchester - Part 1 I've been reading Daisy Christodoulou's Seven Myths of Education, which sent me back to the winners of the clever kids' quiz show in 2007. Have a fine weekend, and try not to watch too many episodes in one sitting... |
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Thursday 10th April 2014
Learning Styles Don't Exist Daniel Willingham sticks it to the Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic nonsense. His other stuff is worth visiting as well, but this is a great place to start. |
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Wednesday 9th April 2014
John Hattie: Visible Learning So, you've heard of John Hattie and you've heard of his investigations into 'effect sizes.' And even if you can't trust his findings, it worth knowing what he has to say... |
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Tuesday 8th April 2014
Central Limit Theorem A film from the Khan Academy, Salman Khan's online educational behemoth. Starting as a series of online tutorials for a family member, there are now huge numbers of short(ish) summaries of key ideas. Since the Central Limit Theorem appears to be new to many teachers, I suggest you start there... |
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Monday 7th April 2014
Sugata Mitra's new experiments in self-teaching As some of you may have a bit more time this week, here a few longer things for you to enjoy. First, Sugata Mitra's experiments with computers in the walls of slums. If you haven't seen it, prepare to find it popping back into your head for the next week or so... Quite, quite amazing. |
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Friday 4th April 2014
Lisa Loeb - Going Away Yay! It's the holidays! And if you are going away, you need a good song. And some DVDs. And sunscreen. And Shoes. And Cupcakes. Song at 1:10 after the intro. |
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Thursday 3rd April 2014
Mad Donna - The Wheels On The Bus Work in Early Years or Key Stage 1? Of a certain age? Then turn The Worse Song In The World in one of the best. The Wheels will never be the same again... |
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Wednesday 2nd April 2014
Minecraft - Welcome To Stampy's Lovely World [1] So, children in your class play Minecraft. You don't, I'm guessing. And you probably how no idea just how mindblowing the whole Minecraft thing is... Well, today, you can find out. Beware, you might just get sucked in... |
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Tuesday 1st April 2014
Hamlet - Play Summary & Analysis Thug Notes One for those in secondary after yesterday's pre-teen musical extravaganza, although Parental Discretion Iz Advised, as N.W.A. put it back in the day... Sparky Sweets PhD presents in inimitable style. |
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Monday 31st March 201
Why Does the Sun Shine? by They Might Be Giants This is how to start the week: Large guitars and science. With facts and stuff. ANd even better, there's a follow up song which corrects errors in the original. That's how science works: When the facts change, so does the theory... |
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Friday 28th March 2014
The Mould Effect Want to be amazed by a very simple but curious experiment involving beads? Steve Mould explains, with amazing slow motion photography. Find some beads and give it a go with your class... |
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Thursday 27th March 2014
Pi by Kate Bush As a reminder that tickets for Kate Bush’s first shows in 35 years go on sale at 9:30am tomorrow morning, perfectly timed to ensure no teacher can buy them, here’s her jolly ode to the daddy of irrational numbers. The recitation begins at 3:48… enjoy. 3.1415926535 89793238462643383279 |
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Wednesday 26th March 2014
Testing 1,000 mph wheels on the desert racetrack, South Africa Want to inspire your children with a mad but amazing project? How about driving a car at 1000mph in the desert to break the land speed record? That's why you are learning how to count... |
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Tuesday March 25h 2014
Where the Hell is Matt? The old ones are the best. Matt, dancing. Grab some recording devices, get children to record each other doing the daft dance, run clips together with soundtrack over the top. Instant karma. |
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Monday March 24th 2014
The Big Numbers Song Let’s start with one of my all time favourites. Play this as an assembly or registration intro and you’ll have everyone in the room singing along the second time through. Especially good for upper key stage two when children really twig how the number system works. |
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No YouTube in school? If you haven’t used offliberty, then do. It allows you to download a mp3 (audio) or mp4 (movie file) of most YouTube movies. Great if you can't access YouTube in school, or if you want to avoid that 'But I logged in before assembly started' face palm moment.