Thing #8 Videos

YouTube has many videos that I have seen over the years that I can use and have used. What an exciting media explosion that must be taken advantage of for learning in the classroom. Students are engaged with video when it is done right. A tremendous asset still at the beginning stages of it's potential.

I have never seen TeacherTube or SchoolTube before and always am interested in new resources. I didn't like the ads with TeacherTube but became aware that they go away if I became a member, so I guess the ads are one way to support themselves encouraging teachers to become members upon frequent use. One of the videos I watched tied the video in with a workbook of some sort but they didn't mention how to reference the workbook.

SchoolTube was great because it can be used by students to learn how to post their own work for viewing by others. I like how they broke things down by categories by had trouble doing a search like I did on TeacherTube. They had some good resource links and allowed users to search as a beginner, intermediate or advanced user.