YouTube, Animoto, and QR Codes

YouTube is global video-sharing website that allows users to upload, view, and share videos.  People connect, inform, and inspire others sharing videos.  I have used YouTube for various reasons.  I have used it to watch videos on how-to do something, music videos, to go back and watch something I missed on TV, tutorials for something I do not know, screencasts, books, and just for pure entertainment.

YouTube can be incorporated in a classroom or library in various ways.  We can use to access educational videos for free, use clips to trigger unique and interesting debates on topics, find clips to use as archive resources, use YouTubeEdu, engage visual learners, demonstrate experiments, use videos as writing prompts, etc.  The options are really endless.  There is so many ways we can utilize YouTube to enhance our student’s learning.

Most Helpful:

The “How to use EBSCO Host”  was a video that I felt would be the most helpful to students.  The librarian, guided students step by step on how to use it for research.  She chooses the Student Research Center to look at.  There she looks at current issues and types in gun control.  You can look for magazines, newspapers, transcripts, etc.  She shows you how to cite the resource.  She goes into EBSCO host web.   She continues to explain how students can narrow their topic.

Video Students Would Like Best:

I think Tiger Visits the Norman High School Library is entertaining and students would like it.  The video has not words, but has music in the background.  It starts with a Tiger walking into the library, checking the system for a book, he goes to the shelf, and finds it.  He then sits down to read it and when he is down he goes to research it on online using Brittannica and shares it with students next to him.  Then he sits down and plays a game of chess, makes a puzzle, goes to the use the Nooks, then heads to the magazine area. Before he leaves he makes sure to check-out his book an when he is done, he puts it back in the slot.  The video shows what there is to do and look at in the library in a visually, entertaining video. 

The Unquiet Library 

Most Helpful:

The video I chose that I thought would be most helpful to students is the “Mini-Lesson for Humphlett 10^th L/C AdvancedFlickr Search.”  This video demonstrates step by step how to find creative common photos using advanced search in Flickr. She  focuses on searching for images.  If the attribution is cited, permission is given to use them.  She also demonstrates how to use filters.  By using the advanced search you get the best results.

Video Students Would Like Best:

In the video “Four Classes Researching, Learning, and Collaborating,”  there are four classes at one time in the Unquiet Library. The video take a tour around the library and showcases how the students are engaged and collaborating with each other.  I think students would enjoy seeing themselves and others engaged in their learning.

Pikesville High School Library

Most Helpful:

Although there are a lot of helpful videos in this site, I believe the “PHS Finanicial Aid Workshop” is most helpful.  It walks students on how to apply for financial aid.  A lot of students do not know how FASFA works.  It is very beneficial to seniors going into college.  She explains the different types of financial aids and sources out there.  She looks at how to see the deadlines and how to contact the University that your children are attending.

 

 

Video Students Would Like Best:

The video I thing students would like best is the “Senior Party in the Library.” It shows that students don’t have to always be quiet in the library.  The music plays and students start dancing and the librarian joins in as well.  It is very entertaining to watch.

BBMS Media

Most Helpful:

I think that the “NHD Annotation Writing” video would be most helpful to students.  It shows students exactly how to write an annotation.  It tells students to use Noodle Tools to help guide them in the annotation.

Video Students Would Like Best:

I think that all the parody videos were entertaining.  I like the creativity of the students.  I think the students would really enjoy the “Fifth Harmony Overdue Library Book Parody.” It is a popular song and very catchy and video goes along with the beat of the music.

Animoto turns our video clips and photos into a video slideshow.  It creates a professional-quality video within minutes.  Animotos is easy to use, it walks you through the steps the 1^st time you use it.  The book trailer I created is for Mr. Ferris and His Wheel.  I love how the author and illustrator bring this picture book biography to life.  It shows how Mr. Ferris was determined to accomplish his dream and did not let negativity bring him down.

Mr. Ferris and His Wheel synopsis:

Capturing an engineer’s creative vision and mind for detail, this fully illustrated picture book biography sheds light on how the American inventor George Ferris defied gravity and seemingly impossible odds to invent the world’s most iconic amusement park attraction, the Ferris wheel.

     A fun, fact-filled text by Gibbs Davis combines with Gilbert Ford’s dazzling full-color illustrations to transport readers to the 1893 World’s Fair, where George Ferris and his big, wonderful wheel lifted passengers to the skies for the first time.

Click on the QR Code to view my book trailer.

QR Codes

There are many different ways QR codes can be used for teaching and learning.  Some fun and exciting ways to use QR codes in the classroom are:  scavenger hunts, book trailers, QR stations for self-directed learning, interactive classroom calendars, assistive technology, link hand-outs to resources, easy audio-book access.  Those are just a few ways we can use utilize them in the classroom.