Thing 21

I already use online video in my classroom. Sometimes it is easy to access and use. I use the tutorials from Prentice Hall in my algebra class. I use the videos to re-teach difficult concepts. When I taught world history, I used United Streaming Videos, although some of them are poor quality. All those videos are easy to access, although our tech department wants us to download them and then show them because we use too much bandwith if we show them directly from the site.

When I taught English, I tried to use videos from the internet but with limited success. Some things I could link to one week would be blocked the next. Trying to get Oprah's interview with Elie Wiesel was a challenge. I know YouTube is blocked at school. I usually don't try to look for videos to use at school because so much is blocked and, as I've said before, MHS has been told to reduce the amount of bandwith used. If I preview videos at school, I try to do it after 3:30 when most of the other schools in the district have dismissed.

I'll be looking more carefully at online videos to use in class, now that I know how easy it is to download them. I thought using Zamzar was easy and the second time I used it, the email to me came almost immediately.