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YouTube.com/Teachers was created to help teachers use educational YouTube videos to educate, engage and inspire their students. We know how busy teachers can be so we've worked with a group of teachers to put together playlists of partner videos that align with common core standards.

TED recently launched a new online tool that turns any YouTube video into a lesson. This allows you to "flip" the classroom by having students watch video at home. This site allows you to add commentary to the video.

Tips to effectively use Youtube in the classroom

Sites uses popular music to teach history. School librarian Joyce Valenza writes: "An article in the December 30 Washington Post turned me on to an amazing creative effort developed by a couple of teachers in Hawaii. History for Music Lovers on YouTube is song parody and remix at its most useful. The portal was launched by clever and talented Amy Burvall, of the Le Jardin Academy in Kailua, and Herb Mahelona, who used to work with her, at St. Andrew's Priory in Honolulu. I can see using these as models for creative student research projects. The clever remixing here also seems a cool way of examining transformativeness (repurposing and adding value) as it relates to fair use."... School Library Journal: NeverEndingSearch, Dec. 31; Washington Post, Dec. 30; History for Music Lovers

Watch these and imagine the possibilities in your class!

Using the spotlight tool you can make youtube videos interactive. Looks very interesting!

Looks like this could have lots of classroom applications

"one-stop channel for key political moments from now through the upcoming U.S. election day on November 6. You can watch all of the live speeches from the floor of the upcoming Republican and Democratic National Conventions...You'll find live and on-demand reporting and analysis from ABC News, Al Jazeera English, BuzzFeed, Larry King, The New York Times, Phil DeFranco, Univision and the Wall Street Journal. Each will put their own stamp on the Presidential race-from the conventions to the debates to election night."

"Watch YouTube videos without comments, suggestions, or the 'other' things."

Could be very useful for showing youtube videos in the classroom

ten to twelve minute overviews of major concepts and themes in world history.

Hi Hughes videos presidential election 1960-1992

Capture sections of youtube video

Next video from Michael Wesch

To watch web videos without comments this site allows you to take youtube videos and take out any of the distracting comments.

Great tool to make sure you're only showing what you want to show!

a new series of videos for students of U.S. History and Government. The new series provides one minute overviews of big topics in history and government.

"VideoNotes is a neat new tool for taking notes while watching videos. VideoNotes allows you to load any YouTube video on the left side of your screen and on the right side of the screen VideoNotes gives you a notepad to type on. VideoNotes integrates with your Google Drive account. By integrating with Google Drive VideoNotes allows you to share your notes and collaborate on your notes just as you can do with a Google Document. "

lets you easily record anything that happens on the screen of your iPad which can then be uploaded to YouTube

Videos specific to social studies

"Mashpedia is an interesting service that matches reference articles from Wikipedia to materials from other sources like YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Digg, and the web in general. The purpose of drawing materials from multiple sources is to provide users with a comprehensive view of current news "

Mike Eisenberg, Dean Emeritus and Professor at the University of Washington iSchool, shares a growing series of video conversations in partnership with ABC-CLIO. The first four are on information literacy and you can view them below or on YouTube.

Great vodcasts on info lit.

Latest installment from Michael Wesch. Video is encouraging us to rethink education in the 21st Century.