I've looked at YouTube for a while now. We don't have it in the district (unless you download at home), but it's certainly a popular site. I like it for movie scenes and music videos, but one of my favorites is March of the Librarians, a video from the 2007 American Library Association Conference is Seattle. It's a takeoff on March of the Penguins, and if you've ever been to a library conference, it really has us pegged! The only thing I don't like about YouTube is the quality of the comments. The anonymity allows for a lot of mean-spiritedness to come through. However, it's not so different than the slambooks we used to pass around when I was in school -- your audience is just bigger.
I think there can be a lot of uses for YouTube in school -- presentations of all sorts, demonstrations of hands-on lessons (science, sports, cooking, etc.), and so on. If there are districts that allow YouTube in school, it would be interesting to find out about their experiences with it. Do students eventually use it for schoolwork, or is it just a time-waster?
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I agree that Youtube and teacher tube could provide teachers with some great resources for the classroom. The work around in the WSD is to use a website called Save Video (http://www.savevid.com/) to download the video at home and use it in school. It takes some preparation but once downloaded you have the video for future use and don't have to worry about weather or not the Internet will be working at school. Until we can get 'more bandwidth' in the WSD this will have to do.
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