Thing 20: YouTube, TeacherTube and Zamzar

On YouTube I searched for the TLA 2008 Book Cart Drill Team from Austin that beat my former district's team at TLA. The second part of their song “I Want to be a Librarian” (starting at about 1 minute) is hysterical and I still hear it playing it in my head… Check it out! (While they are signing the words—check out how they sign “librarian”!




Finding useful videos for teaching on YouTube is hit and miss—sometimes you have a lot to work with, and sometimes not-so-much—at least this was true in secondary. As I went to Teacher Tube to search, I had a *much* harder time finding videos that I would actually use in class. Many were poorly done with poor quality images or poor quality video. But after about 30 minutes, I found a great student produced video on the water cycle that you can view below.




Having access to so many videos can be a Godsend when you find a lot of useful pieces, but it is a labor of love to search and search when you may be able to find better resources on streaming video or examples from your own experience or hands on work in the classroom. Be sure to download the videos to your hard drive or flash memory to be sure that you will not be held up by buffering videos, websites being down, or connectivity problems.