Last week for cool tools... Well for many of you, you use YouTube almost everyday to watch crazy funny videos, when you are bored you just look up random things, to listen to music, and to even find that song that is stuck in your head but you cannot think of the name of it. We use YouTube as an everyday tool for the most part just for entertainment. Well this week I thought I would really look through it and see what all it really does have to offer!
YouTube it has the ability to upload videos, songs, create your own videos, you can upload movies, watch anything on the site. On YouTube you have the chance to create your channel as well, in the channel you can upload videos, and if you have a lot of videos you have crate different stations for different videos. If you are just a viewer on YouTube you can subscribe to different people or channels. If you are a constant viewer of a channel, the station will keep track of the different videos that you have already watched. YouTube has a program that tracks the videos that you have watched and then will recommend other videos that you may also enjoy watching. This site really does have a lot to offer, you can search different videos based off of creators, title, subject matter, or even part of a phrase. This tool can be used in so many different ways and a lot more ways than we use on a daily basis'.
This tool can be used in a classroom for several great reasons. It is not only an entertainment site but it also a good educational tool. YouTube can be used for doing demo tutorials of a new subject material, In the classroom YouTube could help to introduce a new topic with a song or video that relates both the old and new topic together. YouTube is a good source to connect other subjects to each other as well, each video on the site has more than one piece to it and each piece of it connects to another.
For students this would be a good tool for them to not only use as entertainment but also as another viewpoint for them to get. Each student learns differently and with that being said YouTube can be a great tool that each student can learn from. Because there are so many different movies on it there are so many different ways that something can be said. If a student learns more from doing, then they could find a video that gives them several problems and then goes through the problems to make sure you did it correctly. If a student is a visual learner then they could find a video that goes through the subject matter by showing examples and explaining each step. Or even if the student is a audio learner they have the opportunity to find a song that explains how to so something. Their are so many different ways to learn and YouTube has the advantage of having all these ways availible at the touch of a finger. You can even have your students create videos, it is simple but you need to be careful with showing faces and such on the web. It could be a great tool if a student wants to share with others a good way to maybe do a problem or to teach a lesson but in other terms that they might understand better.
You can look at different videos by going to YouTube and then to create your own account and upload videos just go to the right hand upper corner and click to start!
For this review I also wanted to play around with it and created my own station and channel for my Major Project. As I have stated I am doing a FlipBook for my major project and this week I decided to start uploading my different steps onto YouTube into my own station that then also has its own playlist just for my major project.
This week I started to come up with what I actually wanted to start drawing for my subject of my flipbook. I have decided to start with mountains that fade in and with a plane that fly's over top and then moves into a person snowboarding.
Here is a video that I started for my topic!
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