YouTube

Lauren Bell File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digitally stored information, such as computer programs, multimedia, documents, or electronic books. The term covers both the making available of the file (uploading), for instance on a file-sharing service such as Kaaza, and the downloading of that file from the internet to a computer. YouTube is a video-sharing website in which users can upload, view and share videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small.

Teachers can find YouTube very useful. There are many valuable videos that further learning. In 2011 YouTube for Schools was introduced. It allows for schools to access thousands of educational videos from YouTube channels that are vetted such as: PBS, TED, and Khan Academy. Teachers and administrators choose what videos are available to their students. If used appropriately a video can be a powerful educational tool that helps in motivating the students. YouTube is being highly used by educators in different parts of the world to teach students and provide instructional videos. YouTube is also serving as an online space where students can show their own work. Teachers can also have students upload their own videos to YouTube to teach their fellow classmates about a topic!

I think that YouTube is a great tool to be used in education. I know that in high school and now more frequently in college many of my teachers have helped us better understand a topic by showing us a video off of YouTube. I also find that when I am giving presentations I look for YouTube videos to not just take up time but to help get my point across to my classmates and professors. I also find myself on YouTube a lot when I need a short study break while working. There are so many things posted on YouTube that can be very very helpful. Guides, lesson plans, science projects, how to postings, and so many more.



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YouTube is a public video site that allows users to upload video as communication. It can be used to view people's works of art, goofy videos they make, watch music videos, and many other tools. It can also be used in a classroom setting to teach lessons. According to //The New York Times, // YouTube is the number one place for viewing videos on the internet. For me it has also been a stress reliever, when I need to relax for awhile I go to YouTube and watch videos of people making fools of their selves. YouTube was created by former Paypal employees in 2005.



YouTube can also be used in several different ways in the classroom. When students are absent from school they could post a video of the lesson they missed, and get a better idea of what they need to do to catch up. Also when doing projects this is a great way to see what other people think about certain topics, because people even post their web camera blogs on YouTube as well. YouTube also has how to tutorials for a number of things to do. My cousin found a video on how to tie a tie. YouTube also can be used to persuade people to take action on issues effecting our world, [|7 billion]. This video was just shown in a teacher workshop, Population Connection, that I attended and I can tell you it got me wondering about our world.

I believe that YouTube is a very wonderful tool that we've been blessed with as educators. It could open more doors for teaching than we could possibly imagine. I think that the project we did for this class really opened my eyes to YouTube and what it can do for my classroom. I will continue to search for new ways to use this in my classroom.

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When posting a You Tube video, one can make their video public, meaning all users have access to viewing it. They can make it private by only allowing people with the url to access it. They also have the choice of making it private to a list of up to 25 people. As well as privacy settings, You Tube also has channels, where videos are organized by the type of information they give (ex: music, sports etc). The videos on the home page or on each channel are the most viewed or latest viewed. If you are looking for a specific video, you can search it using the search box. You Tube is very user-friendly.

**WHY USE YOUTUBE IN THE CLASSOOM?****Because teachers need to adapt to todays student in the classroom.**

While YouTube is becoming a topic in conversation about being used in the classroom, I believe it is for the better. Technology is doing wonders on advancements in our classroom, and I'm sure YouTube will greatly improve that. www.edutopia.org is is a great website for teachers. On this website ironically there is an awesome YouTube video that shows the basics of the YouTube website for any teacher who may not be familiar with this site. []

One of the most interesting ways I have saw YouTube being used to enhance learning is with the videos being used to help ESL students. There are many videos on YouTube that can be used to help ESL students work on listening and pronunciation.

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Katelyn Burke

Assignment 5.1

EDP 279

What is file sharing?- Social Media- YouTube

The website, YouTube.com, is a site that we see pop up in our lives almost daily. Whether you need instructions on how to do something, your friend sends you a link to a viral video, or you are in class and your professor is showing you video examples on YouTube, it is one of the most commonly used social media websites. According to “The Social Media Revolution 2012” video, YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world and just in the four minutes of watching that informational video, over one hundred hours of video will be uploaded to YouTube.

According to Wikipedia, file sharing is the practice of distributing and providing access to digitally stored information such as multimedia (the category that YouTube fits into), documents, computer programs, and electronic books. YouTube is a video sharing website that has been in existence since 2005. It has been launched in several different countries and users can upload their own videos and watch the videos uploaded by others, including individuals, companies, or advertisers.

Since the launch of YouTube was right before my high school career, as the years went on, I saw its use become more prevalent in my education. It was used to illustrate concepts especially in my science classes and history classes. When the school put SmartBoards in every classroom my junior year of high school, the use of YouTube skyrocketed. I even remember watching Obama’s oath of office on YouTube in my American history class. Now in college it is used in almost every one of my education classes. We watch examples of teaching styles or of behaviors and how to deal with them. Also instructional videos are watched often for practical advice like the one I made last week for EDP 279 about the basic use of a SmartBoard.

YouTube videos are engaging and realistic and can be a quick and easy way to access examples to concepts. Since the Internet and social media sites are what so many students spend hours on per day for enjoyment and find such an interest in, why not use them for teaching purposes? Students usually know how to navigate these sites and will become more interested in the material when they find out they can learn about it on a site like YouTube that they may frequent so often.

Teachers can even create their own YouTube channel for their class and upload their own instructional videos, or other instructional videos they find relevant for students to watch in class or on their own time. Although social media can be a distraction for students when they are using it for reasons that may not be educational, it could also be used as a motivator to get students involved in the curriculum. Students can even create and upload their own videos teaching a topic or mastering a skill and then present it to the class, it really makes learning fun for everyone.

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Kristin Carusiello:
===YouTube is a video-sharing site that is extremely popular. YouTube has been around in the United States for the past 7 years and has expanded to 43 other countries and 51 different languages in these past 7 years. As its popularity skyrocketed, Google bought out YouTube for 1.65 billion dollars.===

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===YouTube can be used for recreational and enjoyment purposes or for educational purposes. One thing that I do not think others have brought up is the validity factor for videos that we would use for educational purposes. There are millions and millions of videos out there, but you have to be careful what is used in the classroom. Many videos would be extremely inappropriate for early childhood students, but YouTube has modified that now in order to watch videos with ‘offensive content’ you must be registered as a member that is 18 years or older. As teachers we must be sure to screen any videos used in the classroom beforehand and to do some research on the content in the video to be sure that it is legitimate.=== ===Many of my teachers have used YouTube videos on various topics during their lessons to help further our learning by providing us with a visual explanation or elaboration. In college classes, I have also noticed that majority of students will include YouTube videos in their own presentations and I know that I am apart of this crowd.=== ===I think YouTube can be a great asset to a classroom. There are how-to videos out there to teach students or yourself how to do various things. It can be a great tool for ELL students that struggle with reading. You could even find YouTube videos in the ELL’s language to help them understand the concept you are trying to teach them in English. It is important to still support student’s first languages and to encourage them. There are video clips of movies or TV shows that could be extensions to their learning. These videos could be great to the students making connections by showing videos that relate and are relevant to their lives.=== ===While YouTube is a public site, there are also privacy aspects where you can create private channels that can only be viewed by certain members. I think this could be a great and exciting tool to use in the classroom that the students would get into. As a teacher you could post videos on a classroom channel to help struggling students or even post videos of lessons for students that are absent or need to review the material learned. You can get the students involved by having them create their own YouTube videos. A project could be for the students to research a topic and create a video to teach their peers, similar what we did for our last assignment. With a classroom channel, any videos made by the students or teacher could be posted to the private channel so only members of the class could view them. Also, this could be a way to allow parents to see student’s work or what they are working on in the classroom. In an early childhood classroom, on a unit about weather, the students could make their own weather forecasts.===

http://www.youtube.com/teachers [] : YouTube channel for teachers 10 ways to use YouTube in the classroom

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Taylor Byrd Assignment 5.1 - Wiki

YouTube is a type of file sharing that is very informative and a helpful tool that people can use daily to learn, and to share. ([|www.youtube.com]) YouTube was founded in February of 2005. This site lets billions of people watch, learn, and teach the knowledge that they have to the world via videos. This is a very helpful link that I found that goes through the basics and answers a lot of questions about who started and what YouTube is all about. []

YouTube is a great tool that I have experienced first hand that my professors use to teach parts of the class. The way that they incorporate it into the classroom is through demonstrations that would be difficult for them to perform in class. Just about everyday that I have class we will watch a YouTube video of some sort. Practically anything that you would want, or need to know can be found on this website.

YouTube is a great way to incorporate universal design into your classroom. This will help the visual learners, and even audio learners if they are not understanding just through lecture. Also this is a very engaging way to get your students to be focused on a lesson; it might be more interesting to some to switch things up this way.

YouTube is also very helpful for teachers themselves. There are many lesson plans and teacher channels on YouTube to help teachers put ideas together to make their own lesson plan, or you an already existing one. This is very nice, because you can see what works for other teachers, and try to implement it in your own classroom. This is a link to a website that shares different channels and videos for teachers to use for lesson plans, and other ideas for them. []

Personally I have never been much of a YouTuber myself until just recently. I’m not one to sit down and watch music videos, funny videos or bloggers talk. Since being at Miami I have seen the other side of YouTube, and not just the social media where there are, in my opinion thousands upon thousand of time wasting pointless videos. YouTube is a very diverse website. One thing bad about YouTube is that you cannot always trust it. Since any person can upload a video saying what they want to, sometimes you have to do a lot more research to find out if what they are saying is a fact, or just their own personal opinion.

One thing that I know I will use YouTube for in my class is to help my students remember things in a fun way, instead of just studying answers. By this, I mean catchy jingles, or songs to remember information. Even in college my professors still teach using this. This is one YouTube video for example that I remember watching. [] This is the song from School House Rock, “I’m just a Bill”. Videos like this, for many students helps them remember the process that things must go through to complete their cycle. YouTube is a growing website that is very useful to almost anyone, and very helpful for learning, and teaching!

Information Added by: Jackie Gruen Assignment 5.1 YouTube is known as an online public communications’ site, created in 2005. The site allows for registered users to upload videos to share with other. Non-registered users can also go on and simply view YouTube videos. YouTube is user-friendly, making is easy to upload videos and navigate around the site. The topics covered on YouTube are endless and there are many perks to using this site for various purposes. Businesses, schools, and individual users are some of the people that can benefit from using YouTube. Like everyone has previously stated, YouTube can be used in several ways in the classroom. I can recall watching YouTube videos when I was in high school in some of my classes, and I found them to be beneficial for my learning. When teaching, explanations may not be enough in order to convey a message to your students. YouTube has a plethora of different videos that can be incorporated into many lessons, allowing for students to have visual representation and a better understanding of various topics. Using videos in school can engage students, spark conversations, and bring lessons to life. YouTube is a free resource that teachers can take advantage of as often as they would like to in their classroom. There are several other ways that YouTube can be used in a classroom including: These are a few different ways that YouTube can be used in the classroom. It is up to the teacher, how much they would like to incorporate technology into their classroom. There are many benefits to doing so, for both the students and the teachers as well.
 * **Showing video clips during class to enhance lessons **: The videos are all different lengths and styles, making it easy to choose one that fits perfectly into the lesson. This is also a great way to address to visual learners.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Having students create their own videos on a certain topic **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">: This would be beneficial for older students, allowing for them to experiment with technology instead of always having them write papers or take exams.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Homework help **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">: If teachers wanted to, they could provide homework videos that the students could access at home (or at the library if they don’t own a computer). These videos could explain directions, and provide students with a step-by-step guide for students that may have questions.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Justin Blevins <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">EDP279 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Assignment 5.1

This multiple use media tool can be a great addition to any classroom. Through youtube students can view uploaded videos by teachers pertaining to content material and explore sources of information from others. Students can also create and upload their own videos which could be used as a presentation to classmates. One of the great advantages that youtube has is that children can easily access and navigate the site, and many of them are probably already familiar with it making it something students will want to be active with. Teachers will enjoy using youtube because of the educator friendly tools that come along with using youtube.com/schools the site where educators can learn about the uses and abilities of youtube. In the site overviews are given on how the site can be implemented in the classroom without causing problems with the ability to restrict students to only viewing teacher uploaded content. Youtube is a great media tool that can be used for education because it is teacher friendly, school appropriate, and gives the facilitator access to vast amounts of educational videos to be used in the classroom.Resource: youtube.com/schools