What do you like or dislike about YouTube? Did you find videos that would be useful for teaching and learning? Should YouTube be restricted to students? to teachers?
I absolutely love YouTube. My experience has primarily been for personal use looking up old movie clips, music videos and concert footage. I have used "Shift Happens" and other videos when working with staff on Professional Development. I have also used inspirational type themes with staff during staff meetings. Unfortunately, we are completely blocked in our district. I have had to embed the videos to email to access them. This takes additional time and effort and has been a source of complaints for staff wanting to use video with the kids. That being said, I do believe that students should be restricted in their search efforts. We have the technology to block inappropriate searches. I would like to see the kids be able to create videos and post them as projects. I do not see any reason to restrict teachers at all. We entrust them with our kids every minute of every day. We can trust that they would use the site appropriately. I am not a bandwidth expert so I have no idea of how access to these sights would affect the network.
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