Thing #4: Video Hosting (YouTube)

Here is a video I put on YouTube. It is made with Animoto using the same pictures from our trip but a different song.



I've used YouTube often to watch videos. I don't make many videos so I have uploaded only a couple to the site. Videos online can be helpful to teachers for them to learn new ways to teach a concept in the classroom. They can gain ideas from other teachers of things that have worked. Students would enjoy creating and posting their work online as well for others to view. This would be a convenient place for students to upload their work for the teacher to look at every one's projects in the same place.

Thing #20

I have used YouTube often but had never heard of TeacherTube until now. I found many videos on "technology in education" on YouTube. Here is one of them:



I had fun exploring the videos on TeacherTube. I searched for videos about phonics and found several. I wasn't impressed with the information presented through some of the videos, but there was a good variety of lessons available.

Resources such as these are a valuable tool for the classroom. Students would enjoy creating their own videos. One of the advantages of having these videos available is that it gives teachers a new way to present information. I think students get tired of seeing the same things class after class. The videos can give the teachers new ideas as well as be shared with students to present the information in a new way.

This was a fun lesson for me!