The site I chose to use for this post is YouTube.com, which can be accessed at http://www.youtube.com/. Everybody knows what YouTube is and how it operates. It is a site where thousands upon thousands of videos can be accessed and posted by anyone around the world. That, however, is one of the aspects of the website I do not always like. It's great that any and everyone can post, but the problem is that any and everyone can post. Sometimes the video you expect to be what you wanted is nothing more than a parody of what you were looking for, a horribly shot video from some random person, or worse still, it could be a video which contains a virus that can crash your computer.
Even still, YouTube is a valuable website that has many positive uses in the classroom. Teachers can use it to show video clips that are relevant to their lesson. For example, I am going to teach K-6. One of the techniques I hope to employ during my lesson on the parts of speech is to use School House Rock video clips. A couple of teachers of mine in elementary and middle school used these videos and they really helped us to learn the lesson. We learned things from these videos that stuck with us to this day, so I believe that School House Rock is a valuable tool and a fun way to teach children. However, I do not own any of the videos so I can use YouTube to access them and show them to my students in order to give them a fun way to learn a typically boring subject such as the parts of speech. With all the video clips available on the site, there is a never-ending stream of useful clips for teachers to use in order to enhance their lesson.
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