In this thing 12-13 I am supposed to add a YouTube video. I actually did that in Thing1 not knowing it would "officially" come up. However, here is a CATCHY video my students and I have been singing (whether we want to or not) that I used to teach figurative language:
I personally, <3 YouTube and am ALWAYS going to YouTube to look things up. I'm a visual person. I have never been disappointed with the vast amount of data you can find there.
What I liked most about this video is that the students actually understood the figurative language and could bring up examples from the song in later lessons. Some even wanted to assign vocal parts! While others want to make songs for other lesson objectives.
Here is my TEASe video from last semester for a Holocaust unit that I initially created using Windows MovieMaker and then uploaded into YouTube:
As far as which social video site I prefer, it just depends on what I'm looking for. I definitely go to YouTube for more personal searches and the education based social video sites (TeacherTube & SchoolTube) for my instruction. I do notice, however, that the education sites tend to be slower and sometimes have too much on a particular subject and I haven't quite figured out the best way to search in the site so I usually end up using YouTube or United Streaming.
I am truly grateful and appreciative of those who post/share educational videos. It serves as a reference for subjects that I am not as comfortable in teaching due to lack of knowledge, it gives a different outlook/variety to my instruction, and it makes learning something new fun & the students are highly engaged enabling them to process and retain the information.
Having students create videos and sharing will somewhat force them to research and process the new information, allow for collaboration and cooperative learning groups, and exposes them to new technology skills. Having it uploaded gives students a sense of pride and accomplishment while also teaching the material from a kid's point of view and language.
These sites and videos are an ASSET to any teacher's career!
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