You Tube,which bills itself as "The largest worldwide video-sharing community!" is a phenomenon sweeping cyberspace with a plethora of subject matter, both serious and fluffy, both informational and entertaining, both professional and totally random, both religious and secular. The fact that anyone can upload video clips to You Tube makes it totally user friendly and gives it wide appeal. In getting around You Tube this piece Chris O'Neal's Blog on Edutopia was very helpful.
What teacher has not dreamed of and longed for a way to interject appropriate video clips into teaching to make certain points extremely visual? Along with vehicles to use movie clips in the classroom, a teacher's use of You Tube in the classroom makes the dream reachable with information like this article Brenda Dyck's Blog on Education World.
All educators are familiar with the problems and issues of the profession. Staff Development addresses many of these. Lest we take educational professional development too seriously, a lighthearted look at one of these issues, funding, is illustrated by Educationally Impolite's "Funny Professional Development for Teachers" in the You tube video sample of their series, embedded at right. You Tube is a site one could spend hours at a time on, learning, laughing, being moved or inspired, or any of an inordinant number of other vicarious experiences through the use of "The largest worldwide video-sharing community!"
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