YouTube is a website founded in February 2005 that allows people to discover, watch and share originally created videos. The videos are categorized into channels, most important to teachers and students might be the Science and Education. The website offers an option for a safety settings that allow inappropriate videos to be avoided, helping teachers and students to explore videos from other channels for classroom use.
As demonstrations are one of the important methods of lesson delivery, it is necessary that teachers use technology to record the demonstrations they perform in class for students review. Some of these demonstration videos can already be located on youtube. For instance, there is a video demonstration of watercolor painting for beginners that starts from stretching of the paper to the finish of the painting. One way of demonstrating to a large class about throwing on the potters wheel is to record a video and play it to the class. Youtube saves teachers time by serving as a resource for such educational videos. Videos do not only help in demonstrating to a large, they also help in shortening the time spent to observe the process of an activity like the Ben Lustenhouwer's painting of a portrait. Youtube educational videos are not only for classrooms but also for any individual who wants to learn something new. In spite of my interest in technology, I have little knowledge HTML. Just searching "html" on youtube pulled up a video tutorial on the subject that has already given me a start.
Having a google account helps me personalize the type of videos that I watch on youtube by subscribing to favorite channels and, based on the videos that I have already watched on the website, receive recommended videos from youtube. I do not always visit youtube for educational videos, I do that sometimes merely for entertainment. The "Gangnam Style Mom and Son" video was interesting to watch.
As demonstrations are one of the important methods of lesson delivery, it is necessary that teachers use technology to record the demonstrations they perform in class for students review. Some of these demonstration videos can already be located on youtube. For instance, there is a video demonstration of watercolor painting for beginners that starts from stretching of the paper to the finish of the painting. One way of demonstrating to a large class about throwing on the potters wheel is to record a video and play it to the class. Youtube saves teachers time by serving as a resource for such educational videos. Videos do not only help in demonstrating to a large, they also help in shortening the time spent to observe the process of an activity like the Ben Lustenhouwer's painting of a portrait. Youtube educational videos are not only for classrooms but also for any individual who wants to learn something new. In spite of my interest in technology, I have little knowledge HTML. Just searching "html" on youtube pulled up a video tutorial on the subject that has already given me a start.
Having a google account helps me personalize the type of videos that I watch on youtube by subscribing to favorite channels and, based on the videos that I have already watched on the website, receive recommended videos from youtube. I do not always visit youtube for educational videos, I do that sometimes merely for entertainment. The "Gangnam Style Mom and Son" video was interesting to watch.