A video is a medium that engages viewers from multiple senses - sight and sound. Videos can generate excitement about subjects or content and help our students understand and retain more information.
YouTube is a free video-sharing website with more than 65,000 videos uploaded daily.
YouTube is a platform that is providing teachers with a growing amount of visual information to share with our students.
Within YouTube, you can create a "playlist". A YouTube playlist is like a bookshelf: a collection of videos, organized and easy to access.
Curate great videos to use in your lessons by creating playlists with a specific content focus. You can quickly and conveniently share multiple videos with students and teachers with just one link.
YouTube can meet your classroom needs!
- Collect videos with multiple purposes.
- "How-to" videos for teachers tech skills.
- Short narratives videos to practice thinking at deeper levels.
- Public service announcements to share as mentor videos for student-created projects.
- Funny videos for much-needed brain breaks.
- Some teachers create differentiated playlists: one for students who need more review and one for students who want to explore more and extend their knowledge.
Here is how to create a playlist in YouTube:
