Guayaqui, Ecuador
Lorena Baquerizo G.
Created in February 2005 by three PayPal employees, its main purpose is to upload, view and share videos. It is definitely a great tool to include technology in our classroom.
With only about four years old, youtube has become in an incredible tool which is used by people from different countries, ages, cultures, etc. It is more than just a site to share videos, it has become in a great tool to let the rest of the world see what you want. At the same time this has also become into a great tool for educators to incorporate technology in our classrooms. Different types of videos have been always within our curricula and weekly planning, so what does youtube have that can make our classroom even more interesting and up to date?, here some hints:
1. Home videos: Believe me, it will not matter what your topic is, you will find a video in youtube. It can go from National Geographic short videos to kids in US, Argentina, or Iran singing carols in their English classrooms.
2. Features: There are no long time videos in youtube, which makes it easier to use it in class since it can fit in our classroom periods.
3. Dynamic: With your own account, leave and receive messages will be part of your classes feedback; you will receive comments from all over the world and do the same to other people.
4. Easy-to-use: You only need to create your account, record your video, download it to your computer and then upload it as in any other social site (facebook, hi5, tagged in, sonic, etc). Then, once in the web automatically you will receive comments and posts.
Created in February 2005 by three PayPal employees, its main purpose is to upload, view and share videos. It is definitely a great tool to include technology in our classroom.
With only about four years old, youtube has become in an incredible tool which is used by people from different countries, ages, cultures, etc. It is more than just a site to share videos, it has become in a great tool to let the rest of the world see what you want. At the same time this has also become into a great tool for educators to incorporate technology in our classrooms. Different types of videos have been always within our curricula and weekly planning, so what does youtube have that can make our classroom even more interesting and up to date?, here some hints:
1. Home videos: Believe me, it will not matter what your topic is, you will find a video in youtube. It can go from National Geographic short videos to kids in US, Argentina, or Iran singing carols in their English classrooms.
2. Features: There are no long time videos in youtube, which makes it easier to use it in class since it can fit in our classroom periods.
3. Dynamic: With your own account, leave and receive messages will be part of your classes feedback; you will receive comments from all over the world and do the same to other people.
4. Easy-to-use: You only need to create your account, record your video, download it to your computer and then upload it as in any other social site (facebook, hi5, tagged in, sonic, etc). Then, once in the web automatically you will receive comments and posts.
I am conscious of the high cost of investment (not waste) of money, so we need to be realistic and try to use as much “cheap” technology as we can help our students to develop skills that are necessary in our times.
1 comment:
I find it quite modern to use youtube,teens are impressed by it. Its the sense of putting language into context.
Something that we need to do before using these cool technological items, is to train our students to be critical enough to know what to open and what to delete inmediately.
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