Thursday, 19 May 2011

#Youtube and TeacherTube

I can spend ages just meandering through Youtube treasures, beginning with one intention and then seeing where it leads. It can be a relaxing, informative, inspiring, funny, reflective, thought provoking experience and I appreciate the plethora of creativity and passion that compels so many people to design and share. Of course it's not all good but selective use of keywords and browsing skills usually gives a good result. As with so many of the Web 2.0 tools we have been exploring, YouTube brings home the importance of   information literacy skills being taught from the Early Years onwards. Those skills of locating and selecting particularly come into their own.

 I used the following clip with Year 7 students when looking at Primary sources of Information.  The clip and the ensuing discussion provided a very memorable learning experience for us all, and left none of them with any doubts regarding the difference between primary and secondary information sources.




TeacherTube is also an excellent source of learning resources and information. We use TeacherTube quite a bit in our staff and curriculum meetings.

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