What do you like or dislike about YouTube? Did you find videos that would be useful for teaching and learning? Is YouTube banned in your building?
Many of the videos in YouTube are humorous ... but I found the quality of most to be lacking. I looked for videos dealing with Information Literacy (something I teach) and more specifically, Boolean searching. I was disappointed to find nothing really usable for either my middle school students or adults. While conceptually a couple of the videos were interesting, the production quality was poor.
I'm sure if I spent more time I might find videos that would be useful for teaching and learning but going to a paid streaming video source is probably a better bet for educational purposes. It's like the Internet at large ... the best stuff ... the 'hidden web' can't be found with a general purpose search engine. Better quality and content usually costs money and/or requires a different search strategy in order to find it.
And yes, YouTube is most definitely banned in my building and throughout the district.
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