VideoOptions

=Video **Options**=

Tool Classroom Examples
[|Shalla Secure Services Website] [|Growing Up Online] Yoga Meditation [|YouTube Safety] [|A Teacher's Tour of YouTube] [|Safe Use of Internet/High School] [|Exploding Walls Project] [|Think Before you Post - Hey Sarah] [|Think Before you Post - Repeating Photograph] [|Othello: Olivier Act V Death Scene] [|Mars Lander Simulation] [|Anne Frank Footage] [| Early library visits] [|Animal Alphabet] [| Gees Bend Quilts] [|Where the Hell is Matt?] or [|Dancing Matt] [|Where in Google Earth is Matt?] [|bacteria] [|Alphabet Alliteration] [|Explosive Volcano Eruptions] [|How Earthquakes Work]

Made by students
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=__SWOT ANALYSIS__=

Strengths: Video content can be tailored directly to a unit
Easy access to videos. -Videos are educational -Videos are categorized and can be searched for in many ways (ex. by grade level, content, media type, media length) -You can download the video directly to your computer so you can organize the media you like on your hard drive. For example, a teacher can save a video about St. Augustine to a file in which he/she keeps all of the plans and resources for that particular unit of study. -Discovery streaming also allows you to build lesson plans on the site where you can save videos, quizzes, tests, and assignments. -Some of the media have discussion and/or quiz questions available.
 * Strengths of Discovery Steaming**

(tim.mc.6.16.09)
-Simple easy to navigate graphics -can build your own custom video wall. Could be good application for classroom with projection
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Weaknesses: Content may not be quite as clear as desired when viewed in full - screen mode
After browsing through the video sites mentioned on this page, It is YouTube that has the most amount of videos per subject searched time after time. While wanting to use other video options other than YouTube, the other sites were very limiting.

-It is not free!
 * Weakness of Discovery Steaming**

(tim.mc.6.16.09)
-Safe Search is WAY too easy to turn ON and OFF -search results seem to be more about entertainment. Hard to find educational related videos
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Opportunities: Many available videos are extremely hard to find anywhere else
For high school students, there are some videos available that warn older students (due to content) of interner dangers. These videos could be shown during Advisory Period.

Threats:
1. Students trying to find video materials for a classroom assignment, or simply browsing some of the video sites, such as YouTube, may come across some inappropriate material. Are these students being monitored all of the time, at home and at school? Probably not. 2. If a teacher, or a student presenter, starts to play a video to a class and has not previewed the video before showing it, inappropriate content may be shown to students.

=IDEAS FOR THE CLASSROOM=

[|The Davos Question:] Students create and submit video to YouTube that can may be submitted to world leaders at the World Economic Conference in Davos, Switzerland. Leaders and CEO's answer the question at this [|playlist].[|Revolutionary war moves south]