I personally like the idea of being able use the endless number of videos available on YouTube and Google. However, there are several concerns that I have as a teacher with using these websites. YouTube has tons of advertisements posted on it, and some of them are inappropriate for the school setting. It is not guaranteed that what you see on there is educational. Also both of these sources are not very reliable because technology does not always work when you need it to. Both websites are easy to maneuver and are user friendly for teachers and students.
I like TeacherTube because I think it is a lot more appropriate to use at school. It is easy to navigate and it does have a lot of resources and videos for teacher to utilize. I like how it offers videos, audio recordings, discussions, and photos. Having a variety of resources for teachers on website is definitely more convenient. I do see and understand the value of having TeacherTube to use in the classroom. I will try to incorporate TeacherTube in the classroom. For example, there are some great videos on TeacherTube that I could use to introduce a new unit or lesson or review a certain topic.
Web 2.0 websites like YouTube, Google videos, and TeacherTube are great tools to have access to in the classroom. These resources are fairly easy to incorporate into any lesson, and this gives you a great way to add technology into your lessons. There are several Web 2.0 websites that offer great videos, links, and educational information for teachers to use in their classroom. These tools can also be great for students to use at home if they missed a lesson or needed some remediation on a certain topic or standard.
Advertisements was something I forgot to mention in my blog. They are very distracting even to adults so kids will defiantly be venerable to them.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about Google Videos and YouTube having the endless amount of videos, and also about YouTube and the content on the site. It's hard to anticipate what will pop up on the site, so I also feel TeacherTube would be a better option to use in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteI agree that teacher tube is a lot more appropriate for school. When you search someting on youtube anything could pop up. I think teacher tube filters through that kind of stuff.
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i agree Teachertube is more appropriate for the classroom setting. i also found it easy to navigate and more entertaining that Youtube actually.
ReplyDeleteI think we can all agree that teachtube is more appropriate for the classroom. With youtube, we run to much of a risk of pulling up an inappropriate video or comments that are made for the video.
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