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From Victorian CSI to dancing graphs

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A Victorian CSI-style crime scene, dancing graphs in maths, a virtual field trip and a cockney guide to apostrophes make up just some of the free teacher-made videos available via O2 Learn. Anna Pedroza explains.

More and more teachers are starting to use video to record individual lessons for students to watch or to create resources that they can use in class again and again. 

O2 Learn, which launched in 2011, is a free-to-use, moderated, video-sharing website which has more than 3,000 video lesson resources that have been uploaded by teachers, and more recently, by students themselves. 

O2 Learn’s ambition is to create Britain’s biggest classroom of uploaded video lessons to help connect students across the country to great teaching.

Everyone who uploads an eligible video lesson has the chance to win the weekly O2 Learn Best Lesson Award – a prize which is worth £2,000 (split between themselves and their school department). Weekly winners also have an opportunity to win one of the annual awards, worth £45,000 – see box, below right, for more information.

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