Sunday, July 29, 2007

YouTube and TeacherTube

Here's one of my favorite math videos. It's an Abbott and Costello routine. Enjoy!


I much prefer YouTube over TeacherTube. The later is useful for it's clips on how to do things. I just learned how to make classroom posters using Excel, but it felt pretty limited to me. YouTube has been one of my favorite sites for a while. (The have a large collection of Abbott and Costello routines.) If you're patient you can find some pretty remarkable things on it, but as far as usefulness in my classroom United Streaming is the best.

2 comments:

Poison Shirt said...

YouTube does require patience in searching, but the range of topics can't be beat. I liked seeing your A & C clip - although I felt kind of dumb, 'cause I could follow his logic completely and then couldn't figure out what the problem was.

DivingRhino said...

Whenever I see that I'm always amazed that someone was able to find all those wrong ways to do it!

YouTube definitely has more on it (and more varied content), TeacherTube's advantage is that you're not going to run across anything inappropriate. It's likely that the government will force us to block YouTube at some point again (They just passed some legislation that will have universal filtering on the entire net with the goal of protecting children ... how they intend to do that in any practical way is anyone's guess ... and who decides what is inappropriate!)