Thing #6

For this "Thing" I choose to use YouTube. I saw YouTube on the list and decided to use it mainly because I have been listening to and watching videos on this website while I was blogging. I use YouTube at least every other day. It is a great sharing site.YouTube has millions of videos that you can watch to learn just about anything.

As I explored I found a few different videos that were pretty neat. I found one school's YouTube channel where they post math videos that they make in their math class. This is the link to their channel, http://www.youtube.com/user/WSHSmath. Okay maybe I am a nerd but I thought this was pretty neat. They take newer songs that the kids can relate to and make a math song out of it. I found several other videos where other schools have done the same thing. I think this is a great example of ways that teachers can let their students get involved in teaching. The students in the videos all looked they were having so much fun. Learning should be fun so that was very cool. Also I found that on YouTube you can create an account for your school that lets you search through YouTube for education videos but it is more filtered so you don't get videos that are not there for education purposes. Here is the link to where you can go to create an account for your school or class, http://www.youtube.com/schools.

I think i could show some of these videos in my classroom as the beginning to a unit or something. I think it would get the students interested in the lesson and may even spark some creativity.

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
-William Butler Yeats