I get emails from a great site, Free Technology for Teachers.  A recent article highlighted OpenEd, a free service that has created a huge catalog of educational videos and games that you can browse by topic, grade level, or Common Core standard. The service launched last fall.  

I decided to explore the site, and found a good array of educational videos; I searched for resources pertaining to economics, since 20% of the questions on the GED 2014 Social Studies test concern this topic  and most of our students know very little about it. 

I created "playlists" of these videos for each economics chapter in the pre-GED textbook (Common Core Basics: Social Studies, by McGraw Hill), so I'll be able to easily access them when needed. I searched for videos using the headings and key words in the chapters. I previewed most of the videos, but some wouldn't open on my old home computer; some videos I added to the list because they will help ME learn more about this topic! 

Here are the links for the Economics playlists (I also started playlists for other subjects....) 
Economic Foundations
Economic Events in History
Economics in the 21st Century

Better Late than Never

I am a late-comer to the Digital Co-Lab group, having been so busy this past spring that I felt I had no time to participate in one more thing.  However, I attended the technology workshop and as a result created my first-ever web page through Weebly, and now I want to explore and develop more resources to use with my Reading and Writing Fundamentals class.  I have spent the past two days going down the rabbit holes of Merlot, OpenEd, and Zaption.  I think it is a good thing that I am not teaching, and that it is raining!  More to come ....