All Blog Posts Tagged 'YouTube' (6)

On teaching without electricity: Use stumbling blocks as stepping stones (Moliehi Sekese, Lesotho)

Moliehi Sekese wakes up in the morning, packs up her laptop, fully charged, and heads of to teach her students at Mamoeketsi Government Primary School, Lesotho. From the minute class begins that morning, students crowd around her PC, exploring maths, science…

Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on November 3, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

Cleaning up YouTube Videos for K12 Audiences

by Alix E. Peshette

Reposted from the Impetuous Geek

Say YouTube to most educators and IT folks and they will probably wince. Many school distrists block YouTube or only let teachers acess the site. However, amid the offensive flotsam and…

Continue

Added by Alix E. Peshette on February 17, 2010 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments

Technology Committee

Today my principal called me in to ask if I'd be interested in serving on a committee chaired by our superintendent. The committee will be making recommendations about opening up our district to using (and allowing students to use) more technology and social networking at school. From the way it was described to me, it seems as though the main focus will be social networking. Anyway, I'm going to do some research prior to the first meeting. I'd like to go in with research, anecdotes, lesson… Continue

Added by Jennifer Hall on January 28, 2010 at 3:49pm — No Comments

TeacherTube, and other YouTube alternatives for educational/instructional use

[Posted last month about video hosting sites focused on educational applications - a nice intro to a few of the sites out there that focus on providing this service for the academic community. - KW]

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Like many of the educators I know, you have probably heard of TeacherTube, but like me, you may be wondering how TeacherTube differs from YouTube, and how it compares to alternative… Continue

Added by Kelly Walsh on April 17, 2009 at 6:41am — No Comments

You "gotta be HD kidding me" Tube

Unbelievable, beautiful, and amazing quality in HD.

This is the original YouTube video in "normal" quality.

This is the same video in HD quality.…

Continue

Added by John Costilla on December 5, 2008 at 1:50pm — No Comments

The Study of a Culture - The YouTube Culture

No this is not the "Charlie bit me" video. This is Mike Wesch's presentation to the Library of Congress entitled "An anthropological introduction to YouTube." Mike is the creator of the now famous video - Web 2.0 Explained. This presentation really speaks to how widespread YouTube is and the notion of video blogs (… Continue

Added by John Costilla on September 2, 2008 at 8:15am — No Comments