In the article "Ok, Class, It's Time for YouTube" from the Christian Science Monitor, the site even gets a cheer from a marine biology professor. The author writes about how, through the urging of his son, he begins exploring YouTube and discovers that how it can make his classes come alive. His writing reveals his excitement:
I love reading articles about epiphanies like this. If you haven't checked out YouTube for educational purposes, do so as soon as possible. Chances are you'll discover some good material for your classroom.I began my lecture on the classification of the invertebrates, reciting facts about their anatomy and habits as my students dutifully scribbled away. And then it was showtime. I booted up the laptop and projector, darkened the room, and clicked on YouTube.
The effect was magical. The blue ocean ebbed and flowed before us as myriad sea creatures swam, crawled, and flew about. I stood alongside the screen, narrating the action, occasionally pausing a video clip to point out this or that detail that illuminated my students' notes. From sponges to mollusks to starfish and their kin, we covered all the phyla of invertebrates.
The "wows" and "whoas" from the class confirmed for me that I had struck gold. When the lights came back on one of my students gushed, "That was a real trip."
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6 comments:
I was unaware of the educational benefits of YouTube until around a month ago. I was doing a presentation on the Aghori tribe and found some interesting information through YouTube. While many see this site as barbaric it also has some significance to it as well. Since I was shown that video on the Aghori tribe I can not miss a day without trying to find something interesting and beneficial. Why does no one start a site with videos with just historical significance? Why do people fell they need to ruin a good site by displaying their fights, etc.?
Neat thoughts. I just had my students do an assignment where they post a utube video to our class ning page.
I've seen a few and they are great, I'm looking forward to seeing the rest.
I recently discovered some useful YouTube videos for my math class. I find it challenging to weed through the useless (albeit funny) videos to discover the useful nuggets. I like the idea of students creating videos. I will investigate this.
TLP
As per my experience videos can teach better than books added to this they save a lot of time I can say this with confidence as I have build a site and I am receiving a numerous number of visitors as my site aims at interactive learning.
As per my experience educational videos will have a more positive and lasting effect on your child.
Thanks misterteacher for the great information. I did not knew about teachertube, we were using only youtube now we will use teachertube.
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