There have always been issues in schools surounding YouTube, both concerned with students accessing inappropriate YouTube movies and less often concerns with publishing student work to YouTube. I have typically recommended TeacherTube as an alternative and often that works well.
Having said that YouTube offers a much larger audience for student work, can be better quality, quicker and has some other interesting features. Some of our schools now have a YouTube Channel where parents, teachers and students can visit to view the movies created by students of the school. Other teachers are creating playlists for the students to view and are finding the massive variety of resources from around the world an excellent way to expand student thinking.
If you are frustrated by some of the limitations of TeacherTube or just interested in creating a YouTube account and channel the movie below will guide you through the process. If you have a google account you are already halfway there.
In many of our schools are publishing staff and student photos, photos of student products and artwork along with sporting photos. It can be a wonderful way to “open” your school to the community. Unfortionatly many schools find it difficult to maintain a current website and the photos are often the first thing to suffer.
A couple of our schools are now using Picasa web albums as a solution to this problem, creating a user acount in the school name and publishing straight to that account. The school webpage link then points to the Picasa web album.
The movie below will guide you through the process of creating an account in picasa and using the web albums uploader to publish your photos. Picasa can be found here
This post supports a presentation to the Wollongong Diocese Professional Learning Day for Teacher Librarians and and Library Assistants.
Our current use of Digital resources presents a real challenge to our catholic values of integrity, justice and dignity.
Creative commons provides an opportunity for us and our students to use rich digital resources in an ethical way. It allows us to fairly and legally copy, modify and reuse digital resources. By encouraging the use of creative commons resources you can assist your students and teachers to develop a moral and ethically sound approach to the use of digital resources
The presentation used on the day can be found below however if you would like a copy of the presentation with the movies included for use with your staff or students please contact Mark Woolley at the Wollongong CEO.
archive.org The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Freely download images, movies, music
Freesound The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs.
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