The Missing Piece refers to subtitles on the videos. This was added as a deliberate effort to assist the instruction of all students for better learning and retention of the material.
Here’s more information straight from Zane Education to help explain this product. It is such a huge resource with so much going on that it’s best to let them assist in telling you about it!
Service Features
Zane Education provides an effective, subscription-based, online visual learning education
solution using subtitled educational video, quizzes, interactive video study tools and free lesson
plans. They provide online learning for 11 different subjects and 260+ K-12 curriculum topics,
with more material being added all the time.
For many Homeschoolers it provides a complete one-stop-shop Visual Learning-based education
solution that provides the curriculum material needed for children from Elementary school to
College age, or from Kindergarten to Year 12.
The features include:
•The online subtitled videos deliver the curriculum content for each topic.
•The online interactive quizzes provide online testing for each topic.
•The interactive study tools on each video page allow aspects of each video to be further
explored and investigated.
•The Lesson Plans provide further activities for the parent or teacher to ensure each topic
is explored in a structured and thorough manner.
•The Study Center provides additional resources including the World Fact Book to support
study and additional resources are constantly being added.
•A Getting Started Guide and selection of User Guides for a range of different students are
freely downloadable to ensure that each student is able to use the resources provided for
their greatest benefit.
The Benefits of Visual Learning
The benefits of Visual Learning and using subtitled video to deliver curriculum content include:
•It effectively provides for virtually every learning style, enabling each child to choose to
process the information by watching, listening to, or reading each presentation thereby
allowing them to process that information in the most beneficial and effective manner.
•Using video to learn provides each child with a more interesting, compelling and fun
manner by which to learn. It attracts and maintains their interest and concentration for
longer periods of time.
•Using online video enables each child or student to study at their own speed, and thereby
achieve their greatest potential.
•Not only is this a more compelling form of learning for the average child, it also provides
a meaningful solution for a wide range of special needs including Dyslexia and Reading
Difficulties, Learning Difficulties, Hearing and Visual Impairment, Autism, ADD and ADHD,
the disabled, and other Special Needs requirements.
This website really does help users of all different levels and abilities. There are many user guides available to members, including the FREE guides available for those teaching students with visual impairments, ADHD, reading difficulties, autism, and more. There are also guides for those needing assistance teaching ESL students, for teaching in a traditional school, and various guides for homeschooling educators. Check out the guides here.
To get a better understanding of the vast array of videos available, feel free to download and browse the Curriculum Topic and Video Title Catalogue.
We used this for our social studies this summer. For example, my kids enjoyed the Lollipop Dragon Explores Communities unit of videos. This was a great way to target a topic we’d been informally discussing already. The videos reinforced some of the ideas we’d explored on our own and really brought it together as the videos broke it down into urban, rural, and suburban communities as well. I appreciated the attention to detail as the topic was thoroughly explored on their level. I appreciated that there were additional resources available for continued study and further discussion.
My son, who is not a reader, simply ignored the subtitles. My daughter liked having them there because she was able to read what was being said when our sweet baby started making loud infant noises right in the middle of the second video. Instead of having to ask, she was able to read it. They also came in handy a few times when a word she’d never heard before was introduced. She was able to see how it was spelled. I may follow up in future viewings by writing words down from the videos as spelling words for our lists to follow up with the information!
I would recommend this service to other homeschooling families that are needing to reach their students in a new, unique, and informative way. If you have fond memories of being able to watch a video instead of being lectured to in class, then you’ll surely understand why these videos are great for your children. Furthermore, having the subtitles is a wonderful way to continue to reach those students.
One of Zane Education’s primary aims is to make Home Education significantly more affordable
for everyone – and their current pricing attempts to provide a whole family with all of the
educational resources they require for less than $200 for a complete year – regardless of the
number of children.
With the exception of the online subtitled video library which is a Premium Service, all of
the other resources provided on the website are free to use after a user has completed the
Registration form for a free Basic Membership. And yes, even the Math videos (without subtitles)
are free to use.
However the use of Zane’s online subtitled video library is a Premium Service which requires the
upgrading of the free Basic Membership to one of the following three options.
-GOLD MEMBERSHIP provides access to the videos for all topics at just $17.99 per
month or $197.89 per year.
-SILVER MEMBERSHIP provides access to the videos for all topics in a particular Age/
Grade at just $12.99 per month or $142.89 per year.
-BRONZE MEMBERSHIP provides access to the videos for all topics in a particular
Subject at just $8.99 per month or $98.89 per year.
Subscriptions are a great value, as you get your 12th month FREE!
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*I was provided a subscription as a member of The Schoolhouse Review Crew. All opinions voiced on this review are mine alone.