youtube

=YouTube= Broadcast Yourself

Why YouTube?
YouTube is an incredible resource of movies. You can find all sorts of valuable nuggets to share with friends, family, students and colleagues. Moving images can be very impactful when voice, text and music are combined.

Viewing / Searching / Using videos
There are movies on almost every topic. When I last demonstrated this, the term 'literacy' had 1560 movies associated with it. I have found some incredible teaching, motivational and inspirational videos.

Submit your videos to be shared
I created a video to model creating a stop motion video and be able to explain the process and how hard it was. [| CUEBC] hosted a contest in 2007 for student created stop motion videos. Click here to see the submissions to the [|group]. Both of my girls love watching me and were inspired to create their own videos. The first one that I did took 2.5 hours from start to finish (excluding the storyboarding and planning time.) Doing the next ones with my girls took under 2 hours for each of them. They did most of the work, I just supported.

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Create a list of favourites and create playlists
I have been able to create several playlists for categorizing the type of videos that I am saving. I like this feature so that I can group them by purpose. See my lists at http://youtube.com/profile_play_list?user=kevinamboe

=Embed videos= The video above has been embedded. The file still is running on YouTube but it appears on my site. Within this wiki it does take time to load the link sometimes.

Download videos
Trusting that technology will always work, I never worry that it won't. Instead, I make sure that I have a back up plan.... If you want to have a copy of a video on your computer, you can download youtube videos. YouTube takes whatever is submitted and changes it to FLV or a flash video. Most computers don't have players (like quicktime plays .mov files) The solution is to have it converted.

Two sites that I use to convert videos are vixy.net and zamzar.net. The both work in slightly different ways.

=Other Options= [| TeacherTube.com] is another resource similar but submitted by teachers for teaching :> As of August 20, 2007, there were 268 videos submitted by teachers on Math.