YouTube can be a great source for a classroom teacher. When you consider the risky encounters you might have while on your search, it just becomes something you don't want to consider for the classroom. I enjoyed watching a YouTube video called Who is nobody. It was a video of a class of students with autism. The lesson was about building some empathy, some emotion. It was encouraging to watch students describe, in their sometimes scripted voices, how they cared for nobody, how they took him home, how they had to give nobody something that represented a care or concern they felt was important in order to make him somebody. I would use this lesson in a special education classroom.
I also watched the slope-intercept rap. This would be a useful introductory piece in the math class, it would definitely help some students remember the definition of a slope-intercept.
For fun, nostalgia, and a how-to, I viewed the YouTube video about how to make a pie crust. (Nostalgic moment - maybe with practice I can make a crust as good as my grandmother used to make. ) I loved the way you could click at the bottom right of the screen and it would list the ingredients for the crust and the measurement for each.
I felt much safer searching in Teacher Tube, but found some of the information was so simplistic that it wasn't useful. However, I believe you could spend a lot of time exploring Teacher Tube for helpful info and will plan to do so. I have no doubt that it will be a good classroom resource. It would also provide a wonderful option for students to create and post some of their own work in YouTube. But, my comfort level with using it, considering all the potential problems you could encounter is not very high right now.
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