Top 5 Websites to Use in Your Classroom on BenQ Board

YouTube is obviously still the biggest video streaming service and a major social media site. With countless creators posting loads of new content each and every day (including other K12 teachers and education experts from all around the world), you can find pretty much any kind of video you might be looking to play during your class. 

Want a sing-along ABC song to teach your youngest students? It’s there. Wish to show your students a very interesting scientific experiment but do not have the tools? Surely someone has published a video of it! Want to give your students a reward at the end of class and show something they’re likely to really love? Some say funny cat videos are what YouTube was made for, so why not try it! 

We often hear from teachers who use our BenQ displays for teaching that YouTube is one of the top tools they use.We recommend you open YouTube in a browser.

Google Classroom is a well-known resource that educators all over the world use on a daily basis. A kind of learning management system (or LMS), Google Classroom allows you to share all class content and files, as well as check attendance, let your students submit their work, and much more.

The reason we recommend you use Google Classroom on your BenQ board is that the files you’ve shared there can be conveniently and easily accessed directly on the board. Simply download and open them in the appropriate app. Saved a PowerPoint with material for your whiteboard for tomorrow’s class on Google Classroom? On the board, just download it to the device’s hard drive and open it via EZWrite*. 

Want to highlight particularly well-done homework by one of your students, e.g. an amazing artwork they completed for this assignment? Display it on the board for all to see. Posted a link to a video and don’t remember the name? Click it to show it to students in class on the big screen. Simple!

* In EZWrite 5, only 15 pages can be created. Only first 15 pages of the PDF of PowerPoint file will be imported.

National Geographic needs no introduction. It feels like NatGeo has been around for ages, teaching generations of students about animals, plants, natural phenomena, geography, and tons of other topics. 

Now, a website specifically designed for young learners is available and free, and would be a great addition to classes that you teach on interactive displays. The website contains plenty of videos, articles, games, quizzes, and classroom activity videos (e.g. simple scientific experiments) to follow along. Working fully via browser, it’s a reliable, fun addition to your class.

Kiddle is a kid-friendly version of Google. Think of child appropriate-filtered Google search, that’s what you get with Kiddle. With visual presentations for each link, this provides a more attractive and alluring way of presenting web content. Colorful, friendly design is awesome for kids, too.

When an interesting topic comes up during class, or a question that you did not expect, and you need to “google” the answer, it’s probably better to “kiddle” it instead, especially if you’re doing so in front of your kids, on a large and very visible interactive display. 

Vooks is a safe, curated library of visualized, animated story books. Entertaining for students, it's a great way to develop passion for reading in your students. Imagine all the advantages of reading, like developing imagination, passing on information, values, and emotion, all in a much more engaging way.

Vooks works great for youngest students. It can be a great class passtime (e.g. keeping the class occupied while you focus on that one student that needs a bit more attention), or a reward for good performance and behavior. Either way, watching Vooks may just become the kids' favorite moment of the day!