Week 4 Blog Entry
What is YouTube?
It is a site online that anyone can upload a video for people with internet access can view. The site is monitored and any inappropriate footage is removed without question. There is are so many videos that can be viewed and accessed through YouTube. This site has been responsible for creating opportunities for people to have there start at fame and fortune. Many undiscovered talents have been discovered through YouTune just by having the courage to upload a video of themselves through this medium. I think this is a wonderful and cheap way in promoting your abilities or talents.
Is this tool valuable for the educational setting?
I believe that YouTube is a valuable tool for the classroom and has great potential to engage students into learning. It also helps the educator to enhance their own teaching and learning practices. There are YouTube clips that are a great educational resource for educators to use in lessons and students to use to enhance a media, or oral presentation. There are boundless opportunities that exist for this type of tool. This tool has entertainment value which is helpful at certain times.
Does this tool have any limitations in the educational setting?
Sometimes clips are removed from the YouTube site and if you have used the clip in another application then it cannot be accessed from YouTube because it is no longer viable. So the only remaining thing to do in this case is to remove it from the application.
Depending on the type of internet connection in the educational context the use of YouTube clips can take a long time to download if a slow connection is all that is available. If there is no real purpose for this tool in the classroom it could be a time waster.
TeacherTube is quite similar to YouTube with some differences. It seems that the downloading of clips from this site takes longer than downloading clips from YouTube.
Until now I really haven't used TeacherTube for anything. Though I haven't closed myself off from the opportunity of using the site for something useful in the classroom in the future.
That is all on this topic. Thanks again for reading. I hope it was enlightening for you.
Tune in next time for more on my e-learning journey.
Rambling Rose.
Here is a YouTube clip that explains what YouTube has been designed to do for people?
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