Since I’m on the topic of listening to music online, another good website for creating playlists is ListAndPlay.com. Click on, “Generate your own MTV,” input the name of a song or artist, and the site will generate a playlist of similar tunes. ListAndPlay is linked to YouTube, so you can watch videos of your songs.
Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Moonfruit
The students used a website called Moonfruit to author their own web pages.
Moonfruit has a nice interface, simple yet with many options. The downside is that Moonfruit only allows users to create a single website. For me, this is not problematic, because I prefer to have the students utilize as many different web authoring tools as possible, as opposed to specializing on a single platform.
Our topic was "Protected Territories." There are six categories of protected territories. On their websites, the students created a title page, and then a separate page for each of the six territory types.
Each page includes a description of the territory, plus a video representing the territory.
I did not want the students to embed the YouTube videos directly because anything longer than a dozen seconds is redundant. Therefore, they used a website called TubeChop to shorten the videos. TubeChop allows users to chop a smaller section from anywhere in a YouTube video and then embed the resultant clip. Rather handy, indeed.
Here a few student productions:
Website 1
Website 2
Website 3
Moonfruit has a nice interface, simple yet with many options. The downside is that Moonfruit only allows users to create a single website. For me, this is not problematic, because I prefer to have the students utilize as many different web authoring tools as possible, as opposed to specializing on a single platform.
Our topic was "Protected Territories." There are six categories of protected territories. On their websites, the students created a title page, and then a separate page for each of the six territory types.
Each page includes a description of the territory, plus a video representing the territory.
I did not want the students to embed the YouTube videos directly because anything longer than a dozen seconds is redundant. Therefore, they used a website called TubeChop to shorten the videos. TubeChop allows users to chop a smaller section from anywhere in a YouTube video and then embed the resultant clip. Rather handy, indeed.
Here a few student productions:
Website 1
Website 2
Website 3
Monday, January 25, 2010
Blocked
Our school board uses a filter. I suppose it is a necessary evil, but as a teacher who tries to integrate IT into the curriculum, the filter is often annoying.
Today, I had planned a writing activity. There is a collaborative writing website called Protaganize. There, I started a story and directed my students to continue the story. Unfortunately, Protaganize is blocked at our school. Why?
Another thing. I like to use games and simulations in the classroom because they are a way for students to learn things while at the same time having fun. Unfortunately, most game sites are blocked. This strikes me as futile. It is not possible to block every game site. I know this, I see students playing games on the computer at school. So, therefore, why bother blocking any at all?
At this school board and at my previous school board, Facebook is blocked. I don't understand the justification for this. The reason given at my previous school board was that too many people were using Facebook and so it was consuming too much bandwidth. So, Facebook was blocked because it was too popular. By that reasoning, email should also be blocked.
On a positive note, Youtube is not blocked at our school. I know that many schools do block Youtube.
That is all.
Today, I had planned a writing activity. There is a collaborative writing website called Protaganize. There, I started a story and directed my students to continue the story. Unfortunately, Protaganize is blocked at our school. Why?
Another thing. I like to use games and simulations in the classroom because they are a way for students to learn things while at the same time having fun. Unfortunately, most game sites are blocked. This strikes me as futile. It is not possible to block every game site. I know this, I see students playing games on the computer at school. So, therefore, why bother blocking any at all?
At this school board and at my previous school board, Facebook is blocked. I don't understand the justification for this. The reason given at my previous school board was that too many people were using Facebook and so it was consuming too much bandwidth. So, Facebook was blocked because it was too popular. By that reasoning, email should also be blocked.
On a positive note, Youtube is not blocked at our school. I know that many schools do block Youtube.
That is all.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Home
Today, in our Geography class, we watched the movie, “Home.”
It is quite a beautiful, educational film about the impact of humans on planet Earth. The subject matter is suitable also for History and Science.
The movie is available in High Definition on YouTube.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Youtube
A week or so ago, I wrote about a video I had watched entitled, “An Anthropological Introduction to Youtube,” by Michael Wesch.
Something mentioned in that video has been stuck in my head and I wanted to share it.
Youtube users produce more content in six months than the three major TV networks produced (if they were on 24/7) since 1948.
I encourage you to view the video in its entirety.
