Videos

What? This week we viewed you tube, a website where you can see videos made from anyone or were copied from it's original destination. We were then told to find an education video and place it on our blog. How might you ask does one do that exactly? Well there is a great website called zamzar. This website allows you to take videos from places like you tube and convert them to another file so that you might be able to place them anywhere you would like, like your blog for example.

So What? You tube is a great way to teach your students. Kids can watch video from a familiar, interesting source, therefore being more interested in what they are watching. Teachers can also make their own videos and even use their students in them. Parents can then watch the same videos on my class website. Students can create mashups, a combination of several videos, to demonstrate a point. I now feel comfortable that I could make a video and use it for another one of my classes today.

Now What? This piece of technology will be great for my future students. I like this class because it shows me all the new ways that I can influence my students through technology. Lets face this is the new age of technology and if you want to get through to your students you have to use means they are interested. Before this assignment I never thought about using you tube in the classroom but this way my student can not only hear and read about a subject they can watch about it. It is just using more ways to get through to my students. I could set up an assignment where the students need to make a mashup for a certain subject. This way I will know that they are truly learning about the subject. I think using this source of technology will make me a better teacher because I am using a fun and unique way to teach them and get them involved. I also think my colleagues will be able to see what I am doing to teach my students and they will get ideas from me. I really want to be the best teacher I can be and if that means learning to find a way to connect with my students I will do it. I definitely think that using you tube is the way to do that.