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Getting Started
Start Small – Teacher Access
The first step to making YouTube part of your teaching toolkit is to search for information for personal professional development. Are you using some type of software for the first time? Check YouTube for tutorials. Are you considering music for your ensembles to perform? Search YouTube to find performances of the piece and let that help guide your decision making. Are you a general music teacher looking to broaden your expertise in folk dancing or world music? One of great advantages of using YouTube is their global reach and volume of available videos.
Broaden Your Horizons - Student Access
Whether you share Internet sites via document links, blog, webpage or other vehicle, only trusted, static sites should be shared with students and YouTube is neither. The majority of what students will see on a typical YouTube page (comments, related videos, links, advertisements, etc.) has little or no educational value. In order to make this resource safe and worthwhile, the educational content needs to be separated from extraneous information.
The first step to making YouTube part of your teaching toolkit is to search for information for personal professional development. Are you using some type of software for the first time? Check YouTube for tutorials. Are you considering music for your ensembles to perform? Search YouTube to find performances of the piece and let that help guide your decision making. Are you a general music teacher looking to broaden your expertise in folk dancing or world music? One of great advantages of using YouTube is their global reach and volume of available videos.
- Bookmark sites for future reference.
- Copy/paste URL of related videos into lesson planning documents.
- Subscribe to individual channels for professional development or future classroom use.
- Explore YouTube EDU: http://www.youtube.com/edu. Here you will find videos and channels from college and university partners of YouTube. For example, Berklee School of Music is one of many schools which has a YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/BerkleeMusic.
- For those resources in which a visual component is not required, click "Convert to MP3" and save the audio file for playback during class.
Broaden Your Horizons - Student Access
Whether you share Internet sites via document links, blog, webpage or other vehicle, only trusted, static sites should be shared with students and YouTube is neither. The majority of what students will see on a typical YouTube page (comments, related videos, links, advertisements, etc.) has little or no educational value. In order to make this resource safe and worthwhile, the educational content needs to be separated from extraneous information.
- Share YouTube videos via SafeShare.TV: http://www.safeshare.tv/.
Copy and paste the YouTube URL and the site will generate a SafeShare link which masks all content except the video itself. Include the link in blog posts or website information so students can safely view video content on their own. Access content via SafeShare links when viewing videos in class (one computer and projector). Note: The video can still be viewed full screen. - Embed video in your PowerPoint Presentation - Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hChq5drjQl4.
- Embed video in Google Presentations and Forms.
- Embed videos in your blog, website, or wiki.
Copy the embed code from the video's watch page and paste it into your site. Be sure to uncheck "include related videos" so that content is controlled. Pros and cons of embedding: Pros - Embedding makes videos easily accessible to students at home and at school, comments and related videos will not appear, and full screen mode can still be used. Cons - Not all blogs and websites support embedding and kids can get to the "real" page if they really want to. - Promote the use of YouTube's Safety Mode.
When you opt in to Safety Mode mode, videos with mature content, or that have been age restricted, will not show up in video search, related videos, playlists, shows and movies. While no filter is 100% effective, Safety Mode prevents potentially objectionable material from showing up on your screen. For further information visit http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=174084.