Nik Peachy has a passion for using technology in classrooms. One aspect that many people often over look is the advertising features or inappropriateness of popular websites. Recently, I used YouTube to show clips of President Obama's Inauguration Speech. While trying to make the video full screen size and advertisement came up on the side for Victoria's Secret bras. This sent my fifth grade boys into a frenzy that I am not sure if they have calmed down from yet. Teacher tube is a new website designed for classrooms. Many of the videos are made in schools. Unitedstreaming is an excellent source for many full length educational films but for short video clips of current events, I encourage teachers to use the Victoria's Secret ad-free Teacher Tube.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Safer Internet Use for Classrooms
Nik Peachy has a passion for using technology in classrooms. One aspect that many people often over look is the advertising features or inappropriateness of popular websites. Recently, I used YouTube to show clips of President Obama's Inauguration Speech. While trying to make the video full screen size and advertisement came up on the side for Victoria's Secret bras. This sent my fifth grade boys into a frenzy that I am not sure if they have calmed down from yet. Teacher tube is a new website designed for classrooms. Many of the videos are made in schools. Unitedstreaming is an excellent source for many full length educational films but for short video clips of current events, I encourage teachers to use the Victoria's Secret ad-free Teacher Tube.
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TeacherTube is often a good choice and it has many of the YouTube videos. Another option is to download the YouTube videos to your own hard drive and then they will always be available ad free.
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