What is Inquiry-Based Learning? Teaching Elementary Reading with Inquiry Circles. 10 ways YouTube can engage your classes now. YouTube can help teachers and students create powerful, engaging, creative videos. These options can help take your videos to the next level. (Flickr / Esther Vargas) YouTube is a behemoth. Each month, more than 1 billion unique users visit the site to view 6 billion hours of video per month. It’s the second-largest search engine in the world, bigger than Bing, Yahoo!
, Ask and AOL combined. It’s not out there just for watching practical jokes, how-to’s on renovating your house or ridiculous sports feats. Here are some ways to leverage the YouTube beast to improve engagement and creativity your class: 1. Classroom application: Teach students a skill or concept by recording yourself (maybe in front of a white board). 2. Classroom application: Students can make these videos as class projects (assuming they have access to YouTube). 3. 4.
Classroom application: Search for Creative Commons videos in the Video Editor. 5. Classroom application: Students (and adults!) 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Related. Grade 2 I PICK Just Right Books. A Look at The Readers Workshop: Part 1. Rick's Reading Workshop: Overview. 1st Grade Mini Lesson. Kindergarten readers workshop focus.