YouTube

=**29. YouTube** =

http://youtube.com
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 * View videos on almost any topic.
 * Subscribe to specific users or channels within YouTube
 * Save videos as favourites
 * Create playlists that you can embed on other sites.
 * Have your own channel that people can subscribe to that shows your videos, your favourites and your playlists. Here is mine: http://nz.youtube.com/user/suzievesper

=Your Educational Guide to YouTube =
 * Potential benefits of using this tool: ||
 * Able to find video on a huge range of topics for use in class including user created content that would not be available from other kinds of sources, can use videos as a discussion prompts on a range of issues, you can get an 'expert' to video responses to questions your class may have and then upload the video to YouTube, any videos uploaded to YouTube will have a potentially large audience for the children's work, there are many videos that can be used for teacher professional development available on YouTube for free. ||
 * Possible disadvantages of using this tool: ||
 * Not all content is approprite - especially the comments under the videos, some parents may object to video including their children being loaded up to such a public forum, the quality of the video when it is converted at the YouTube end is quite low. ||
 * Examples of this tool in action (embed your own example in the row below or hyperlink to some examples) ||
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 * Possible activities for this tool mapped against [|Key Competencies] (only fill in where appropriate) ||
 * || **Activity One** || **Activity Two** || **Activity Three** ||
 * **Managing Self ** || Make a video showing how you best learn and upload to share. || Watch videos about different learning styles and methods and experiment with the ideas shown. ||  ||
 * **Relating to others ** || Watch videos showing situations where people made inappropriate choices on how to relate to others. Discuss, write a script for your own video that shows a better option for the same situations. Film and share. ||  ||   ||
 * **Participating and contributing ** || Watch videos that deal with issues in the world today (eg Darfur). Come up with ideas on how you can do something at local level to help spread awareness of the issues and do something positive to help. Make a video diary as you go through this process and share it. ||  ||   ||
 * **Thinking ** || Look at a range of online videos and decide which videos are more effective within that genre and explaing why. Make up a rubric for features of effective videos within that genre and then plan your own video and access results against the rubric. ||  ||   ||
 * **Using language, symbols, and texts ** || Examine informal and formal language used in videos around the same topic. Discussion around what language to use in different situations. Children make up a basic storyline and then retell it in video form in both a formal and informal way. ||  ||   ||

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