How Can We Use YouTube in the Classroom?

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More Access to Your Students

• Uploading your lectures will give more class activity time if you assign lectures as homework

• Provides lectures to students that are absent• Provides lectures when you are absent

Students Love to Watch Videos

• Creates an engaged classroom• Lecture introductions and breaks from lecture• Tutorials• Fun to use for research

Video Projects• Students love to make videos• Leads to high imagination and creativity• Students will work hard if they are teachers or

actors!• YouTube makes it easy to share those video

projects they create

Personal and Professional Development• Personal

– Tutorials for almost anything– Recipes– TV Shows– Movie Clips

• Professional– Subject level videos– Technology tutorials– Connect with other teachers