Look Whats Coming Down The Tube

Look What’s Coming Down the Tube: YouTube, Teacher Tube, & Other Streaming Videos Jan McGee, LMS West Monroe High School 201 Riggs Street West Monroe, LA 71291 Ouachita Parish School System [email_address]

Time Magazine’s Person of the Year December 25, 2006 YouTube

YouTube is:
A video-sharing service that lets users upload files to YouTube servers, where they are available online
Streams more than 100 million videos per day
Debuted in 2005

What kinds of Videos?
Videos can be
Animations
Video footage of public events
Personal recordings of friends
Personal/Professional Productions
Videos can be
informational
entertaining
persuasive
purely personal

Who Posts?
Anyone with a video recording device
Cell phone
Video Flip Camera
Small Wonder Camera
Upper-end digital video camera

Why Post?
Self expression
Aspiring producers, directors, actors
Aspiring reporters, journalists
Hobbyists
Outlet for creativity
Demonstrations for “how to”
Sharing events

YouTube allows users to:
Post and tag videos
Watch videos posted by others
Post comments in a threaded discussion format
Search for content by keyword or category
Create and participate in topical groups

How does YouTube work?
Free Web 2.0 tool
Users register & create a profile
Videos include tag, category, brief description
Videos can be public or restricted to members of a specified contact list

YouTube Links
Links allow a user to:
share a movie through email
Add it to a list of “favorites”
Post a text-based or video comment about it
Read or watch comments of others

Embed Videos
YouTube allows videos hosted on its site to be embedded in other Web pages, such as blogs, wikis, or personal Web sites.

Significance?
YouTube has made sharing video easy
YouTube provides the storage and the server
Flash player, which works consistently on a variety of platforms, is the only player required
Videos on YouTube generally stream smoothly, without lags or slowdowns.

Why is this Important?
It opens the experience of online video to a wide range of users
Makes content available to everyone interested in consuming it

Educational Implications
Heightens students’ visual literacy
Encourages experimentation with new media
Creating content helps develop a deeper understanding of subject matter and the tools used to create that content
Replaces passive learning with active participation
Teaches Internet responsibility and ethics

YouTube in the Content Areas

History & Social Studies
Hiroshima & Nagasaki-Original 1945 Documentary 5/5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P75GYaYl5w0
John F. Kennedy Assassination
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IHYSwK9Xac
Assassination of Benazir Bhutto
http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =HODBwP5EA-E

Mathematics
Alegebra: Distance Rate and Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-vTXwJObOI
Introduction to Algebra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7FNkFLjsTs

Fine Arts: Band Program
“ I used YouTube today to demonstrate a performance of "Nessun Dorma" by Luciano Pavarotti. I wanted my students to hear it in its original context. (One student told me afterwards that Pavarotti's performance gave him goosebumps.)”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtAk5On4PvI

Band Program
“ I also use YouTube during Fine Arts classes to demonstrate instrumental sounds and voice ranges (soprano, coloratura, dramatic, lyric, basso profundo, countertenor, male alto, castrati, etc.).”

Band, Drum Corp
“ In Marching Band I used clips from drum corps rehearsals to show marching style and body carriage.
I may also use YouTube to show what NOT to sound like, as their are several postings of truly wretched ensembles!”

Vocal Music
Choir performances for concert season
Music competitions
Vocal arrangements

Home Economics
Homemade Banana Bread Recipe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFB5AwQMSD4
Learn How to Quilt: Beginning Quilting Instructions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGsGxY7V920

Library
Book Trailers
Seeing Redd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IifKPrzQFZ4&feature=related
Looking Glass Wars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSp5PaJiNRE
A Great and Terrible Beauty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPtH4vJregY

Library Program
Spy Force Max Remy
http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v = jSCHhUNUvCw
Turtle Summer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cItMmvm6G_E
The Joshua Files
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEIFbyfBbo4

Library Program
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgci5Z2ukOU
When you Were Young: Twilight-Bella & Edward
http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =ywVX8kc23_Q

Technology
How to Download & Install Audacity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSpuJU57cg0
How to Comment on a VoiceThread
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr3qwC31r64

Downsides?
Copyright violations—improper use of copyright materials
Violations of privacy issues
Inappropriate content issues
Users who embed materials are dependent upon YouTube to continue to make that content available
Blocked by Firewalls

“ You get what you look for”
Edutopia Survey
Type in Carl Sagan
Type in World War : Archduke Ferdinand
Diet Coke Mentos Experiment
Readers’ Survey 2007: Best YouTube Video about Education.,Edutopia Readers Weigh in on Favorites. Edutopia: George Lucas Foundation. <http://www.edutopia.org/node/4094>

TeacherTube
http://www.teachertube.com

Teacher Tube Allows Upload of Support Documentation
Beginning April, 2007, TeacherTube has enabled teachers to upload support materials & files to TeacherTube videos
Teacher notes
Directions
Handouts
Quizzes
Discussions questions
Notes, etc.

Saving YouTube for a Rainy Day
http:// www.zamzar.com
Completely free! Optional Toolbar Download!

ZamZar.com
Check email link
Download to HD, flash drive or other location

Click link in email to download video
You will be taken to the download site.

Click “ Download Now ” and save to desired location.

Adding Zamzar “Convert It” Button
Go to: http://www.zamzar.com/tools/
Rt-Click on “ Convert It ” button
On Pop-up menu, select “ Add to Favorites ”
Save in “ Links ” folder
http://www.zamzar.com/tools

To Use ZamZar Button
When on a video-sharing website, such as YouTube, click the ZamZar button on your toolbar.
It will automatically pull up the ZamZar site
AND
It will automatically fill in the URL of the website for you.

Sites supported by Zamzar:
YouTube
Google Video
Myspace
Revver
PutFile
Break.com
Apple Trailers
Dailymotion
Metacafe
IFilm
Grouper
Blip.tv

Other Video Resources TeacherTube SchoolTube UstreamTV GoogleVideo NextVista for Learning

NextVista for Learning
Free online library of teacher and student-made short, educational, high quality video.
Contains a “Global Views” Collection
Contains a “Light Bulb” collection
Right-click to download
Not many videos uploaded at this time.
http:// www.nextvista.org /

SchoolTube
Content created by teachers and students.
All content must be approved by registered teachers
Follows local curriculum guidelines
Can email links
Can generate code to paste into web page
http:// www.schooltube.com *Zamzar not an option

UstreamTV
Uses tag clouds.
Does not categorize videos across the curriculum, but does have great section on technology.
*ex.- Will Richardson’s Weblogg-ed.tv series
http:// www.ustream.tv /

GoogleVideo http:// video.google.com

GoogleVideo

Google Alerts

SciVeeTV
http://www.scivee.tv/

Other Educational Video Sites
MIT World ( http://mitworld.mit.edu ) on demand video of significant public events at Massachuesetts Institute for Technology
Suttree: a knowledge community and an aggregator of instructional videos. Educational videos only part of this site. Site also included many “how tos” for marital relations. Not recommended for school setting. ( http:// www.sutree.com )

Citing YouTube
Norton, Robert. "How to Train a Cat to Operate a Light Switch." YouTube . 4Nov. 2006. 7 Nov. 2007 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vja83KLQXZs>.
No official MLA Citation format for videos. NoodleTools*, has recommended the following format for citing videos: *Printed with permission from Debbie Aycock, NoddleTools.

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Vicki Davis
“ Humans are deeply influenced by video, particularly those with an emotional anchor in their past.”
“ The effective use of video can give us breakthrough moments with our students.”
“ YouTube will become “DeadTube” for educators if they don’t wake up.”
http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2008/02/favorite-inspirational-youtube-clips.html

Works Cited
Davis, Vicki. “YouTube in Education.” Weblog entry. 16 Feb. 2008. Cool Cat Teacher Blog. 2 Mar. 2008 <http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/‌2008/‌02/‌f avorite-inspirational-youtube-clips.html>.
Dyck, Brenda. “Have You Tried YouTube?” Weblog entry. 1 May 2007. Brenda’s Blog. Education World. 17 Feb. 2008 <http://www.educationworld.com/‌a_tech/‌colu mnists/‌dyck/‌dyck015.shtml>.

Works Cited
O’Neal, Chris. “A Teacher’s Tour of YouTube.” Edutopia . 19 Feb. 2008 <http://www.edutopia.org/‌teachers-tour-youtube>.
Wesch, Michael, Prof. “Presentation: YouTube in/‌on/‌of/‌for the Classroom.” Kansas State University. Kansas State University Union 212. 24 Jan. 2008. 24 Feb. 2008 <http://mediatedcultures.net/‌ksudigg/‌?p=140>.

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