Thing #12 and #13: Discovering and Using YouTube

I personally find YouTube to be one of the most entertaining sites and I know I am not alone in this. Where else can you watch endless videos of cats,  Korea's version of Ricky Martin, line dances like the Wobble, Sesame Street, and Dora? For this exercise, I used Youtube to find videos on Community Helpers for my upcoming classroom unit. I found several that will come in handy, including one that I believe was created by a former graduate student in the technology program at HBU!

You can watch the videos here (Community Helpers- HBU, Ms. Taylor's Community Helpers- 2011, and Community Helpers Digital Story TC) or find them embedded in a separate post.

I included videos made by students and teachers. I believe both are beneficial. Some lessons need to identify more with students and others need teacher created structure. I am a student and a teacher. As a student, I was thrilled to find a video created by a peer at HBU; this goes to show the importance of relating to your audience.

This summer I created a video for a unit on Antarctica that I will use with my students in January. I used iMovie to create this video and followed all the copyright rules and regulations. I am pretty proud of it since it took so long to get the music and pictures to align correctly!




 I tried to upload the video to TeacherTube but still haven't received an activation code. I will try again later with a different email and see if that helps.