Tubular Videos 1
August 31, 2009 by GradingGirl
Filed under Favorites, Tubular Videos
Some of my current favorite videos. Stay tuned – On Wednesday, I’ll be posting my favorite “for fun” videos!!
Videos I’m using in the classroom RIGHT NOW
I show this to my seniors to put their academic efforts into perspective. This is a fabulous eye-opener!!!:
This is a super easy-to-follow explanation of Google Docs . . . something I’d like my students to use to share their documents, spreadsheets, presentations, etc. This YouTube site has many other great tech demos as well:
This one works well as an introduction to a reading strategies class. It’s funny in its delivery but it has some solid tips:
This one serves as a fun reading class opener or conclusion:
I always use performance-based techniques with Shakespeare as his work was not meant to be read sitting behind a desk. This particular technique works very well:
I will use this in speech class during our advertising/media unit. This spawns much discussion:
This is a controversial commercial that spawns heated discussion. (Watch at your own risk – may cause tears):
I read excerpts of Randy Paush’s The Last Lecture with my sophomores. This is the taping of his actual last lecture – very inspirational man:
I really like the learning points (college outdated before done, careers changing, etc).
What I didn’t like is in their “market audience of 50 million” part, I really don’t like how they took adoption of hardware and then jumped it to software/web sites. I mean, once we had 50 million radios it was a lot easier to get 50 million people to watch shows. Especially once there were 100 million radios.
Once there were a bunch of computers out there (many of whom had modems) getting them on-line was relatively quick. Once AOL and CompuServe (etc.) flipped a switch all their users were magically on the Internet (even if they didn’t want to be). In this case many of the users did nothing, they were just “on the internet” all of a sudden.
Every phone and computer and handheld is a computer these days, once someone turns on a computer it costs users nothing to sign up for a service like facebook. Plus, electronics are cheap (even in this economy) compared to when TVs came out. Getting these devices is much more affordable and the population is growing so of course adaption is faster.
I’m rambling….
The other videos are great too!
Thank you, Gary, for your insight! Great point about AOL, CompuServe and many of the first users “on” the internet.
I made an invaluable discovery over the summer that’s a personal example of the computational capacities: I can gain more professional development information in a half hour from Twitter and/or my Ning group than I do from attending an all-day educational conference. When I think about the changes that have occured in the mere 10 years I’ve been teaching, it’s mind boggling to think about the next 20 years.