YouTube Resources For Educators

It's Finals Week, teachers have a great deal on their plate.  If a break from correcting exams is needed, sit back and learn something.  The idea for the Lunch N' Learn started when this list of TOP 7 YOUTUBE CHANNELS FOR SUBJECTS WAS FOUND.

Considerations When Using YouTube:

• Short Clips 3-5 minutes; clip longer? consider breaking it up
• Preview Clip First
• Use Quiet Tube Chrome Extension
• Longer Clip, Consider Backchanneling
• Learn Everything To Know About YouTube
• YouTube iPad App

YouTube videos can be viewed on any device and operating system.

Thought Provoking, Creative, Writing Prompts, Informational, Funny


YouTube Teachers


YouTube Mathematics


YouTube History & Social Sciences 
7 Outstanding YouTube Channels For History


YouTube Languages  Spanish


YouTube For Science Teachers       Spangler Effect

Google Hangout and Todaysmeet For Video Feedback

Technology in the form a Google Hangout and Todaysmeet made today's activity more efficient and productive in Mrs. Stainton's AP Environmental Science class.

See how this technology served as a great vehicle for learning.

Back Channeling AP Human Geography

Mrs. Brylski decided that this year she would use todaysmeet as a backchannel for discussion during Food, Inc. (Used Twitter last year for backchanneling) She became familiar with todaysmeet when she used it for a discussion tool among students in different classes.

See what we did.
 

Video (Clips) In The Classroom

Tuesday brings a day in which I can share at our Professional Learning Academy how I use video (clips) in the classroom to engage students, enhance a lesson, support concepts, and teach/reteach 24/7/365! A small teaser is at the left. The full presentation is below.

Video and Backchanneling

Playing a video is always a risky endeavor.  Will the students pay attention; will they find it interesting?  
The answer to these questions is YES, when using backchanneling.  
In my future, the backchanneling of videos using Today's Meet will be more productive iPad 2's.   I have developed a way to use Google Chrome's Incognito Window to show two screens (video and conversation) at the same time. (See video below)  I also used Safeshare.tv as the method of showing the video.  It is my hope that next year, I will be able to individualize the viewing of video clips using iTunes podcasts or options of videos that I create and upload so that students can have a conversations such as this...
Student #1, "In my video, this is stated..."Student #2, "In my video, this is explained..."
Obviously, this is in the infancy of being efficient using an iPad 2, but my planning continues...