Some very good suggestions if you want to use YouTube and want to:
* show the video without the clutter
* show the video from a certain starting point
* show the video even if YouTube is blocked to your classroom.
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Youtube - You know that site with videos and all. Yeah! It turns out that its quite popular and you happen to visit and use it quite often. Instead of just searching and playing here are some top Youtube URL tricks that you should know about:
Great ideas for how to truly capture and curate the power of YouTube for learning, for developing high level thinking, flipping the classroom and just generally making really good use and organization of video in your course.
Make your youtube videos a quiz or create an interactive create your own adventure story. Start the story, students create the endings as videos and users can choose which ending they want, or have students first create the middles and then choose a middle different from their own to then create an ending. What are your ideas?