Use ZAMZAR to convert YouTube url to .mov file for use in school.

on schoolserver

a short video summarizing some of the most
important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals,
hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what... Ryan Bretag's Blog on this topic.

Learning to Change Techies talk about the
lack of technology use in education. ranked 55th... My Blog on the topic. 

Shifts Happens a Did you Know piece. necessary for us to know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q

Another Did You Know of great importance to our scholars.

From: Dawn Sahouani

I use youtube videos from time to time and was wondering if you have any
suggestions to add to my repertoire.  Here's what I got so far:

Brazilian Soccer team.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=C8yLHPBmC3M

My teaching point for this video is that no matter how much flair and
razzle-dazzle you give me, if it doesn't go "in" it doesn't count for
anything but a zero.  Fancy foot work doesn't count for squat if your
assignment doesn't get turned in.


Blow up a whale 
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mhIoIlmHous

This is a news story of a dead whale that washes up on a beach.  The highway
department decides to blow it to smithereens so that the seagulls, crabs and
scavengers will carry away the last bits of the stinking carcass.  "Blast
blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds" is a great example of
alliteration.  Beyond that, it's a great reminder that what one EXPECTS to
happen isn't always what WILL happen.  Investigate the realm of possible
outcomes.  Plan for and adjust strategies accordingly.  


Adidas "Unstopable" commercial 
http://youtube.com/watch?v=t-3CoR0dy0o

What barriers, real or imagined, are holding us back?  How to we push
through and overcome obstacles?  


Honda Accord commercial
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uyN9y0BEMqc

Every action has an impact on something else.  We are all connected.  Beyond
that, it's just cool.

Cement guy revenge
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wwqeqb1dmP4

This is a European commercial without words.  I use it to talk about jumping
to conclusions before having all the evidence.  I've also used it in a
grammar unit as a way of generating lists of verbs, adjectives, adverbs,
etc.

Dutch glider commercial
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OkDFuFkZSF0

Again, European commercial with no words.  I use it the same as the cement
truck, but also "show don't tell" and writing narratives from varying
perspectives.

 
Maids clean crime scene 
http://youtube.com/watch?v=29isWnjKXDw

Be sure to cover all your bases, or in this class - tape off all the
entrances!

I love the Centraal Beheer commercials.  If you put "Centraal Beheer" as
your search words, you'll hit on a whole string of them.  

No list would be complete without Introducing the Book
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek

Our tech people appreciated it a lot!

Billy Collins has a series of animated poems that are interesting.
The Country http://youtube.com/watch?v=8xovLpim_1s
The poem


Forgetfulness http://youtube.com/watch?v=n-a8ELOVig4
The poem


The Dead http://youtube.com/watch?v=iuTNdHadwbk
The poem


P.S.  I download them to my external hard drive using "tube sock" (software
I bought online for 14.99) and play it using Windows Media Player.  Youtube
is blocked at our school.


From: Kevin Collins 

Dawn:
    Here's a bunch of my favorites, which I show to my students for lots 
of reasons (I teach a variety of courses: American Literature, American 
Studies, Media Design -- so there are different reasons for showing 
each...but I'm sure you can find connections)

Animator v. animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c24t7Onr_Pw
Highbrow view: Brilliant use of "self-referential" media; postmodernist
Lowbrow view: kick-ass animation

The Web is Us/ing Us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE&eurl
Could be Ted Nellen's biopic...interesting analysis of shift from WWW to 
Web 2.0

whiteboard animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u46eaeAfeqw
excellent stop action achieved simply by drawing on a white board

juggling to the Beatles for us baby boomers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8f8drk5Urw&feature=related

Scandanavian beatbox master:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVCb52iQrfo
achieved not by voice, but by terrific video editing

Hans Rosling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w
this is SO worth taking the time to watch all 20 minutes. Hans Rosling 
bring statistics alive.  You won't regret it.


Kevin 


From: Barbara Monroe
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I really like using YouTube clips for gateway activties. 
One of my favorite set of texts:  
Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vLSUdF2d_uI


From: Christopher Morgan

Thanks for all the excellent YouTube clips.  
Here's one that you have to see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpBm4KoWsrY

Chris


From: Greg Van Nest 

I recently showed this one to my students and had them journal about it.  Some kids wrote
some really neat reflections, others "didn't get it."

We Are Here: The Pale Blue Dot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw


Greg

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