Lesson 9 "Cool" Engagments with YouTube: Part 1 and 2

“Cool” Engagments with You Tube: Part 1 and Part 2

Youtube is a useful tube in the classroom. Students and Teachers need to be taught how to use all the tools the website has available to them. The article explains these tools and how to get the most out of them.

Searching may seem to be easy, but one must make sure to search using the correct terms. As the article points out with an example of “Tom Waits” one can yield over 1.000 results if the search is not done efficiently. The article explains the importance of narrowing the topic and examining the video titles for patterns and tags.

My Favourites is another helpful feature of the website. Teachers and students alike can create a My Favourites page. This will help to organize the videos that are useful for certain lessons and that can be used over and over again. The Favourites section also contains a feature called Create Playlist. One can select specific videos from the My Favourites page to create a playlist.

The article also suggests different ways to use YouTube in the classroom. This suggestions are both easy to implement and adapt to various situations. The difficulty will lie in finding the videos and creating the playlist. However, once this is completed, it can be used several times. An English class at my school is currently reading “To Kill a Mockingbird” and I plan to share the lesson suggestion from the article with the teacher. As for posting the You Tube videos, this will have to be done only once parent permission has been granted.


Thanks to the information provided by James Trier in these articles, I have been convinced that You Tube can play a valuable part in the education system.