The Global Classroom

More on using Twitter for expanding your PLN, this time with a focus on hashtags related to education

Explored hashtags more and gave some good advice regarding PLN.

Blog post with tips for using Twitter to expand your professional learning network.

Downloadable resource.

ePals project list

I love the friendship flag and the way we are the friend ship flag would tie in with my art lessons easily and the way we are would be a fun site for teaching tolerance and understanding. Such great resources thanks for sharing!

This brief article teaches you 5 things you can do with the new editor built into YouTube

This article describes US culture seen through the eyes of an immaginary visitor to the country, as portrayed in US pop television programming. I am planning to discuss this with my students, and I thought I might piece together a youtube as "pre-reading" with some of the programming quoted in the article, if available.

Interesting idea using YouTube vidoes.

Some good videos listed here by subject matter.

This document is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances.

This video discusses the long-term risks of sharing inappropriate information on the Web. It encourages viewers to "think before you click" and offers tips for being responsible with photos, video and stories.

"How can video clips embedded in multimedia presentations be used to improve learning in college courses? To answer this question, a review of the theoretical and research evidence on videos and the brain is presented first. That is followed by a description of the theory of multimedia learning as it relates to videos and a review of studies using videos over the past four decades in college courses. The results of these studies and the verbal and visual components of a video potentially provide a best fit to the characteristics of this Net Generation of students and a valid approach to tap their multiple intelligences and learning styles. Concrete guidelines are given for using available video technology in the classroom, selecting appropriate video clips for any class, and applying those clips as a systematic teaching tool. The use of clips can also attain 20 specific learning outcomes. Toward that end, 12 generic techniques with examples to integrate video clips into teaching across the college curriculum are described."

One way to save YouTube videos to your computer.

Academic paper with practical uses for YouTube and pedagogy supporting its use in the classroom. Also includes good links

A PowerPoint show highlighting several uses for YouTube in the FL classroom. Interesting links, some good ideas. Focused on Spanish

Interesting take on using YouTube and Facebook in the classroom.