YouTube is ranked right up there with Google and Facebook as one of the online giants. Because of that, everyone and their momma has used YouTube. So why not apply it to the classroom? There are many different ways of doing so. You could upload a video of yourself teaching a lesson that your students could watch at home and take notes on, or have them watch a video in class about a topic you are discussing to maybe help them understand it better. You could even center an entire lesson around a YouTube video and use it as a conversation starter between you and your students. The possibilities are endless.
I like YouTube, but am not an avid user like most. It is a huge time-sucker and can bleed you of all ambition and productivity for an entire day or even weeks in some extreme cases. The site is easy to use and even makes finding videos after your original search as easy as looking through the suggested videos on the right-hand side or at the end of the video you just watched. It doesn't get much easier than that. In fact, that's how I found the video I embedded in this post. I watched the video that was embedded into the 23 Things instructions for this "thing" and this was a suggested video that popped up at the end.
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