Thing 19: Video!
What a wealth of videos are available–from the “sometimes-needs-to-be-filtered” YouTube to the amazing TeacherTube! Although I found a number of YouTube videos which would be helpful, such as Slave Catchers and Resistors and Crime and Punishment in Colonial America, the hassle of getting these videos into a format that I can use in my classroom might slow me down.
TeacherTube, on the other hand, is an awesome treasure to be used by teachers–for students and teachers. In addition to professional topics, I fell in love with the American Institute for History Education channel. From the Underground Railroad to the Transcontinental Railroad, I found excellent short videos that I can use to illustrate major issues and jump start interest in new units.
Who knows, I may get so excited that I have my students submitting their Photo Story projects for TeacherTube!
Filed under: Learning K12 2.0 and tagged TeacherTube, video sharing, YouTube
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I hope you do publish those photostories — how empowering (and motivating) for your students to have the opportunity to teach others and contribute to the shared body of knowledge.
Amy:
I found your blog through Vicki Davis (one of my favorite bloggers too).
Here are some suggestions for getting YouTube and TeacherTube videos to where you can use them with your students.
Firefox has a nice extension called Video DownloadHelper
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006
that easily downloads video, audio, and photos from lots of sites. You can also visit the Video DownloadHelper site for lot of info and tips: http://www.downloadhelper.net/
You can then view the video using any free FLV player such as the Applian Flvplayer:
http://applian.com/flvplayer/
My Edublogger site is currently a work in progress but I am posting Web 2.0 finds on my Blogger site:
http://musicmiddleschoolandweb20.blogspot.com
if you would like to check it out.