Thing 19: YouTube and TeacherTube
After exploring YouTube and TeacherTube, I found an incredible amount of information on several of the topics I researched. Due to the “geek” factor of my topics, most of the videos I found were appropriate to show to my 6th graders. However, I did run across some that contained inappropriate language and questionable content. Interestingly, I found more relevant videos under “Related Videos” than I did with a new search. I’ve never thought of using YouTube as a teaching tool before…however, one of my searches was Cornwall, England. This is the setting of one of the novels that I am currently teaching, and it is pretty unfamiliar to most of my students. Because they have little or no prior knowledge of what this part of England looks like, I thought that it would be helpful to give them some images of the area so that they can better visualize while reading. I found many brief but beautifully done videos and slideshows of the area, some even with narration. My search on TeacherTube gave me some good ideas as well. I searched “book talk” and found many of these briefs overviews on several novels I have taught in the past. I even found additional support materials for one of our summer reading books under one post! Most of the book talks were done by adults (English teacher, media specialist). However, I thought that having some of my more creative and outgoing students produce a book talk on the novels that we study in class would be a great project and a better learning experience for them. posted by Ticketyboo:
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