Blog #10

YouTube

A web 2.0 tool that I will use when teaching in my classroom is YouTube. I think YouTube is a great tool to demonstrate things and also to share video and sound clips with students. If I ever assign my students a video project to do, I will also make it part of their assignment to upload the video onto YouTube, because I think that would be a useful thing to know how to do. YouTube is full of useful material that students would be surprised exists. I would be excited to introduce them to what YouTube offers.

When showing powerpoints on a certain subject, I will search for video clips and other materials posted on YouTube to supplement the material I am teaching. One of the things I love about YouTube is that anyone and everyone can contribute their work to it- this is both good and bad, but in the grand scheme of things I think it is an advantage. Having such a wide variety of contributors opens up so many doors and opportunities of things to find on the website. This is obviously helpful for teachers who are searching for new ideas to convey material to their students.

I think web 2.0 is most definitely useful in K-12 education. I am very excited to use the tools I have learned in this class to teach my students with. I think it is important to keep things new with kids, because if they are bored they become disengaged, and then teaching them is useless. I will definitely be implementing some lessons with web 2.0 tools involved.