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There probably very few people nowadays who don't know what Youtube is and people everywhere have embraced this tool. Recently Google added speech recognition capability in YouTube videos that enables you to search for text spoken in these videos.
Youtube can be used in so many ways in a classroom. I have used it in Prep classes to introduce the phonic alphabet. The videos offer great animations and there is a Youtube video about nearly any subject you can think of.
I use Youtube when I teach a robotics course at schools as a way to show the children what they can achieve with a little imagination and effort. The children love seeing what other children have made and they inevitably want to make something that is even better so it is a great motivator as well. (If you are interested in viewing the videos I have used in class mentioned above just click on the highlighted link.)
Students in my current class are doing a unit on media literacy and they are creating animations on teamwork to present on assembly.
I found Youtube video that a student of a different school made on teamwork and I can't wait to get a chance to show them it next week.
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Hey,
ReplyDeleteI found your blog very interesting and entertaining. I have seen many videos in classrooms, sometimes done by myself, that grips the students' attention and doesn't let go, even for a topic which the majority find boring. I believe that that video has that power.
GP Training (Dec, 2006), Multiple Intelligences, http://www.gp-training.net/training/educational_theory/multint/multint.htm
Hi Damian,
ReplyDeleteYou are right, my students also engage the minute a Youtube clip is played and I am discovering that quite a few of my students make their own at home and upload them to the internet.
Cheers,
Sharon