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2 Tubes for Teachers: Thing 19

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YouTube, oh boy. If ever anyone wanted 15 minutes of fame, this is it (although I think you’d have to have your fame in 2 installations of 10-minutes plus 5-minutes :-)

I don’t use it a lot for school — interesting things come along and I watch and maybe forward them. Many of the videos I use (like the CommonCraft Show) are available in other places too. What I like most about YouTube is that it’s truly international, and is an awesome source for video clips (TV shows, movie trailers, music videos) from other countries (or from the US, for those poor children who don’t have cable TV at their house)

Here are some YouTube videos that relate to library stuff:

• One Minute Critic book reviews:
Dracula, Jasper Fforde and An Abundance of Katherines by John Greene
• Trailer for new Japanese anime series: Library Wars.
Ninjas of Knowledge (video contest entry) No sensible shoes here!

How to:
do an ollie on a skateboard. My son won’t learn how to ride his board, but he sure does want to do all the tricks.

Things I just like:
• Cheburashka & Krokodil Gena, “Goluboi Vagon“: Soviet claymation
• Cheburasha & Krocodil Gena, “Birthday Song
• Nu Pogodi, (ну погоди!),Episode 1: Soviet cartoon (Roadrunner-ish)

TeacherTube — promising but not quite satisfactory (for me, yet)

I do think that TeacherTube would be the best place to post student-created work (such as poetry readings, book trailers or reviews, short films, walking tours, how-tos) because of the focused educational community likely to view it.

• “Trailer” for life as we knew it (YA novel) – great idea, but the learning was in the making of this video, not in the watching of it.

America Idle – the judges vote for the top Information Resources — Google, Uncle George and Librarian. Guess who wins!! I could definitely see incorporating a video like this in a presentation or lesson.

Posted by Dr. Loopy at TeacherTube.com.


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