http://www.teachertube.com/
This resource is a web-based teacher resource, I feel it is a spin off from YouTube.com. This resource could be very resourceful for all teacher and all contents. I search FACS and found numerous video posts that I could use in my class room. I watch quite a few but found one particular that I want to use with my Sixth graders to help their transition into middle school. The video is published from Seventeen magazine, they asked various artists, actors, actresses, athlete's and models about their first day of school jitters. This video would help my sixth graders understand everyone, even famous people, felt nervous on their first day of school. This will help them relate to famous people first then I could open up a discussion in class to help students relate to other students. The transition into middle school can be scary and a hard adjustment, using technology along with other learning tools can help the students stay engaged and active in my discussions. I could transition into my first unit of study easily with the use of this video alone, not to mention others that I found useful.
Since this is a teacher based on-line tool I feel safe using the content, knowing I can trust the sources will be school appropriate for my class room. Some of the video quality is shaky but I think it would be nice for my students to see video made and posted by students doing similar content projects. I am not sure all the ligalities involved with posting my own but plan on checking with my school policies to see if I could post appropriate topic videos to enhance the FACS videos available. I feel my students would be excited to develop video projects, not only because they can show their class mates but also if they know it would be posted on line for other schools and teachers to use.
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If you can't post the videos online you might be able to have your students make videos that are used just for your school. For example, maybe you could have your 7th graders, or the grade you teach, make the videos at the end of this school year and you could show them to the new 7th graders who come in next year. This way the kids could still make their own videos, but you wouldn't have to worry about parents being concerned with their children being posted on the internet. This could also be done with a podcast.
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ReplyDeleteVideos are a great way to open up lessons. It sounds like the one with famous people talking about their school jitters would be a great way to open up a conversation with young people. Teacher Tube sounds safer to use than YouTube. You never know what is going to be on the side of the screen with YouTube (inappropriate language, pictures, etc.). TeacherTube sounds like you don't have to worry about those issues.
~Jenny C-J
I also agree that this is a great resource for teachers to use. I have found it to not only be useful with videos but also documents and audio as well. I was able to download multiple templates that will help during my on your own literacy activiites. A great website for sure!
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