I was disappointed with Schooltube and Teachertube. The videos were boring - at least for the subject matter (waves) that I was hoping to find for class. I hit the jackpot with Youtube. It is not blocked for teachers in our school. I easily found Bill Nye song videos on that topic. I found surfing wave videos I can use purely for entertainment for the students, as well.
The only issue with Youtube is one definitely has to be prepared to preview videos and have them preselected and downloaded so as not to get any inappropriate videos being advertised on the right side of the screen.
Taylor Mali made me laugh with his poetry about girls lending pens and made me cry when he talked about his wife(is it really true?!) jumping to her death.
He is a most talented man. If that story is true I hope and wish for his healing.
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I love this section of videos. I watched them all, they were so great. I guess these types of things are what keeps the kids going. I could do a video selection of sports greatest moments and have the kids comment on them. That would hopefully open up other topics they could discuss and then it would keep growing!!
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