I have always been in to creating video for others. I spent so much time in high school editing videos that now sit in a box to never be watched again. :(
YouTube changed that over night! I have always watched videos on YouTube, however I have never posted anything. Too afraid I couldn’t control who saw it or where it went. I used this assignment to go and explore to find video I needed for my multimedia and emerging technology projects as well. As we learned from our reading you can learn everything from YouTube. So many how-to videos! For both my upcoming projects I am using Glogs from Glogster. I plan to introduce the task for student creation next week. I was going to make a great PowerPoint to show them how to use Glogster… now I don't have too… I found several on YouTube.
The newest video sharing site I am using is SchoolTube. This site allows you as the teacher to upload videos to share, but it also allows your students. As the teacher you have the final say on what is approved for the site. There are different channels one for the school as a whole and then teachers can have their own channel as well. It’s a great way to not take up space on your computer with all your student videos! Can’t wait to have a student video project to test out all these features!
I love your glogster tutorial video! It could not have come at a better time; I'm doing a glogster project today, and I'm going to use this to get my kids excited about it! I think you did a great job of highlighting some of the difficulties and preconceived notitions about youtube. It is a great tool, but it is not always accessible at school. TeacherTube and SchoolTube offer great alternatives, but their libraries are far more limited. I'd like to explore in class the legal ramifications of using sites like zamzar.com to rip files from youtube and then upload them to a more school-friendly site.
ReplyDeleteI love SchoolTube too! I use it to upload videos my students do! First Graders are too young to upload their own videos but I like the fact that if I ever teach an older grade I can have them create videos and post them to SchoolTube too!
ReplyDeleteWow, you are really using video in an interesting and effective manner. I think I learned more about Glogster from you than I did at a conference last year! And I do see that SchoolTune is increasing its offerings as more people are beginning to discover it. Our department here at KSU is using it for a lot of things.
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