Bendin Blog

I recently used YouTube, SchoolTube, and TeacherTube for a presentation that I was sharing at a workshop. There is a lot of good (and bad) information out there. I think that are three are VERY useful tools for the classroom. Not only did I find some interesting stuff to use, I think it is good to show the students that these tools are not just for fun and silly stuff, but that they can also be used as helpful tools. Who knew? Ha!

In my recent searches I was looking for information on how to teach students good digital citizenship. One particular topic was about posting personal online. See this YouTube video about “Amanda the Babysitter” and how posting her personal video online came back to haunt her… The video was originated at ConnectSafely.com.

Feel free to take a look at my wiki page (a work in progress) that we hope to use with our MS students this year in Advisement.

As far as making my own videos this year… I’m not sure I can tackle that (but you never know). I do hope to use some slide shows and some of the other tools that we’ve learned in this course but I may save video for another time. I’ve learned that I can’t take on more than I can chew at a time (unless I go in knowing that I can spit it back out – ha) so for now, creating a video is on hold for me.