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 * Ideas and Links for using [|YouTube] and [|TeacherTube] in Your Classroom**

We must educate the students we have, not the student we used to have, nor the student we wished we had. We must adapt to today's student, not them adapting to us. We must adapt to their world of today's 21st century technology. We cannot teach like we've taught forever anymore. We must change ourselves to adapt to their world.

Today's student is the millennial, born 1982-2000. They are the first networked generation. They are hyper-communicators and must "power down" just to go to school.

One way that we can reach them is through **[|YouTube]** and **[|TeacherTube]**. The world is changing and our own standards must change in order to move forward.

How to get started:

**1. Start simple. Search** **[|YouTube]** **or** **[|TeacherTube]** **for the subject you are teaching**, for example: To Kill a Mockingbird.
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8TgqenWW0I&feature=related
 * (keyword - Great Speeches)
 * Lesson Plan idea for using YouTube with to Kill A Mockingbird

**2. Cross reference with other videos**. For example, to Kill a Mockingbird discusses racism and its effect on a town, the Swing Music documentary parallels life and popular culture in the 30's, which is the time period that To Kill a Mockingbird takes place.
 * [|Swing Music Documentary]

**3. Use these videos to generate conversations with your class.**
 * Example:President Barak Obamaweekly YouTube Address
 * [|Blood Sucking Mosquito] - Use to generate conversation about student back ground knowledge, insects, West Nile, and more!

4. Additional strategies for Using Teacher Tube/ You Tube videos.
Embedding these videos in wikis, powerpoints and in lessons and activities can be accomplished using the following strategies:
 * //Learning Centers// – when students are conducting science investigations one or two computers set up with the video allows student groups to cycle through as they move from station to station in the learning center.
 * //WebQuests// – these videos can be added to the resource section or beginning sections to provide students information about the topic being investigated.
 * //Case Studies// – one of more videos can be set up in classroom computers as a resource for students’ investigation a problem.
 * //Problem Based Learning// – students can be shown a video or two to set the stage for a problem they must investigate.
 * //Student Multimedia Presentations// – these videos can be used by students to support any multimedia presentations they are giving.
 * //Student Debates// – when students are conducting debates, any side of the debate could use videos to support their point of view.
 * //Teacher Lectures// – these short videos can be embedded in lectures and shown to students at the appropriate time. This keeps the lesson going and retains student interest.


 * 5. Use these videos for professional development **


 * [|Success with Promethian] Interactive White Board
 * [|Do Schools Kill Creativity?]

**6. Examples of Youtube Lesson plan ideas here.**
Here are some good videos and/or **keyword** topic ideas to search for on the http://www.youtube.com/ site. Be creative in how you can use them in your classroom. One instructor, I heard, starts class EVERY DAY with a YouTube video. > ]]
 * Great Speeches
 * [|Count Calcula] - Order of Operations
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 * Mac fixit or Vista help)
 * How tos
 * How to: Moodle Channel
 * The Official Google Channel
 * [[@http://www.youtube.com/user/SesameStreet?ob=5|Sesame Street Channel
 * [|Notebook Babies]
 * Where the hell is Matt?[|Lessons]
 * PBS
 * [|iSafe Channel]
 * Frontline
 * National Geographic
 * How news rooms work [|Howstuffworks] videos
 * Death by PowerPoint
 * [|Right Angle Trigonometry (High School)]
 * [|Volume of a Cone]
 * [|Factoring Polynomials]
 * [|Using the Quadratic Formula]
 * [|The Elephant Song]
 * Defragging
 * Think Before You Post by Ad Council
 * [|50 Greatest Arts Videos on YouTube]
 * Historical Videos - [|Iesson idea]
 * Mythbusters
 * Anne Frank's Secret Annex
 * [|Halloween Classroom Lesson plans]
 * [|A Fair(y) Use Talk] copyright law
 * Moonwalk
 * Harry Potter
 * Magnetism
 * Woodie Guthrie
 * Alive in Baghdad
 * Tropism or Venus Fly Trap
 * How to cheat
 * Commoncraft This is the producer of the In Plain English tutorial videos

**Here is an example of a video no longer available due to copyright:** media type="youtube" key="RxT5NwQUtVM" height="344" width="425" Are you wondering about the Top 20 Viral Videos? Go [|here] to check them out!
 * Mom Overture - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxT5NwQUtVM