TO YOUTUBE or NOT TO YOUTUBE
I find youtube to be a great resource for immediate dialog and reference. How should we use some of the seminars without any legal constraints. What is the protocal?
I like You tube for when I make my own instructional videos. But I don't think we should use you tube to borrow others instruction.
I think if we are using you tube to borrow, the problem becomes that someone else is teaching and we aren't in our own class.
Does that make sense?
I think this is before the whole copyright issue as being on youtube I don't know where the legal problem would come into play. If someone doesn't want their stuff borrowed they can private all of it.
-Kelly
Though a lot more limited in content than YouTube, http://www.teachertube.com/ is open source and free from licensing issues.
I use Youtube to show short videos--under five minutes or less. I'm an English teacher, so things like Schoolhouse Rock's Grammar Rock, etc. I see no problem there.
I was certainly concern that "someone else is teaching the class" when I use videos, and also that the person giving the Ted talk or whatever video clip I use would be much better than me and will make me look bad by comparison. But keeping the videos short keeps me in charge of the class and even a great speaker, on a short video, will be less interesting than a live person (me) in a small classroom. (This probably wouldn't work for a longer video which gave the students enough time to really start to like the instructor on the video, or a really big lecture hall where I was so detached from the students that I was almost like a video myself.) Remember also that you have to break up your lecture anyway since the students can't concentrate for 50 minutes at a stretch. Throwing in a couple of shot videos turns my 50 minute lecture into three 15 minute lectures with a 2 or 3 minute video between them. I have found that every student whose mind wandered came back for the videos giving me a fresh start for the next 15 minute section. I also found that something mildly funny, like a video of a person deliberately doing all the steps exactly wrong, cheers up the class while conveying the information in a memorable way that I probably could not use myself since I am normally demonstrating the right way to do it and could confuse someone if I was making deliberate mistakes.
