Wiki Page, Social Media in Education: Different ways to use YouTube in Your Course/Classroom:

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2016-10-22T21:55:47-06:00

WAYS TO USE YOUTUBE IN EDUCATION:

1. Use it to supplement topics that you discussed.

2. Use it to spark new ideas and interest in a certain topic by playing videos related to it.

Look for the video that you need. When you find it, you can share it in a few ways.

Play it while in class, to start a discussion and get some interest going.

Send it together with a homework. You can convert the link into a QR code to make it easy to access. A quick Google search for a QR code generator will help with this.

If your school is using a Learning Management System (LMS), sharing is much easier. You can send it as an announcement or send an email with the link to the video.

If you are teaching purely online courses, the videos can be added to discussions or assignments.

3. Use it to inspire theme discussions.

4. Find videos that relates to the theme and add it to your course or play in the class. Then ask the student to reflect and use the video to discuss the topic.

5. Use YouTube to find high quality videos for free.

There are a lot of educational videos that are in YouTube and you can use it for free.

6. Use clips from YouTube to provide content to your topic.

A lot of organization upload videos and short clips to YouTube. Use those to help bring certain elements in your course/class.

7. Engage other types of learner (visual learners).

Not only that you are providing your student quality information through videos you are also engaging visual learners.

8. Provide student the ability to watch the video over and over again to master the information provided, specially for difficult concepts.

9. Use videos from YouTube as a writing prompt.

10. Use YouTube to upload your own video such as a review sessions.