Whenever I need a short brief video on a topic I look in YouTube and TeacherTube. The videos I find are great. They are just brief were they don’t take a lot of time out of teaching. The only problem is of course the dreaded “Firewall”. Sometimes I feel that it is a very bad thing. Feeling that it blocks my created juices. Well enough about that. Now there are programs available that will convert and allow you to use YouTube videos but of course it requires you to access it somewhere else other than school. A teachers work is never done. I use the videos as training tools for teachers and as writing prompts in class or to supplement an idea. I would like to have students produce some of their own videos in the future. I would like them to make some that pertains to the rules in school such as uniforms. That way I don’t have to repeat myself. Have them make videos to show and discuss demonstration done in science labs. Eventually have a library of these labs/demonstration for students that out for one reason or another and to able to have them as reviews.
Georgia Floods Here is a video of the floods in Georgia that I still use in my classroom. (My brother help edit and post)
Why do we have to block the good videos? We are not going to look at anything dirty, except learning about soil. Videos are help tools and we need to access them no matter what site they are on. Sometimes the raw footage of the everchanging weather are captured for the world and yet we have a hard time accessing them. Any video that goes with a lesson will help change the way we teach the students.
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