The+YouTube+Generation

TODAY - Choose roles In order to create a well-functioning collaborative group, each group member will assume a role. · Group moderator – (Aaron Bashline) - pose questions, ask for clarification, keep the conversation going and focused · Thematic finder – (Zach Kohler)- look for themes in the discussion, publish the themes, refine the themes · Citation guru – (Brett Bicksler)- seek clarification, ask for proof, decide where citations are needed, help locate sources when necessary · Editor – (Jess) - establish a timeline for completion of the “group artifact”, use themes to develop a writing/creation plan, communicate and execute a direction/vision for the “group artifact” · Publisher – (N/A) - Use your tech skills to manage the production of the artifact.

Hey everyone, I just got home so by the time I get on the road there is no way I will make the meeting. I'm sorry about this but travel times just did not work out for me today. Here is all the notes i took for us on wednesday:

We talked about getting a staged video up a head of time just in case it takes longer than expected to load. I would say we can film that tomorrow morning when we meet. So we decided that we would start off by talking how fast things get up on youtube. Embarrassingling fast sometimes We will then go into how that can be a negative thing. Here is where we can show the video of the books dropping. We follow this up with this speed can also be advantagous. Here we can show the video from philly that brett talked about. We can discuss how personal cameras and people posting videos has been increasing the amount of knowledge available for news casts. Here I think we should transition to the facts about youtube. I found a website with a bunch of facts on it.[|http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/05/17/youtube-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/]We can go into a type of did you know section of the presentation and say some of those facts. From here i think we should pole the class on who had youtube allowed in their high school. Then we can maybe open up for a discussion on whether people think youtube should be allowed in schools. Here we can transition into how we can use youtube as a resource. Our closer can be a playlist of videos covering all the major subjects of school we dont need to show each of them but just page through them to show how vast the subject is. I think we should come up with a short example of a lesson we can do using youtube. We can present the idea for the lesson during our part on youtube as a resource. I personally dont have any ideas on a potential lesson so i figured id bounce the idea off of you guys. The only thought i had was doing something like a webquest. Jess you might not know what this is but I'm sure Brett and Aaron will be glad to fill you in. We can look at the web quests that prof scot gave us as an example to use for our example. Once again sorry I cant make it today but I will see you tomorrow nice and early. Text me if you have questions or bounce ideas off of me.

BEFORE NEXT CLASS - Every group member should post on this page a resource, an idea, a response.

Aaron Bashline; I found this interesting article while browsing through a couple articles. At the end, the author gives ideas on how to make one's youtube video more famous. Here is the link [] I will keep an eye out for more articles and things like that. Just wanted to add it before I lost the page. Also, here are some web pages that holds facts about Youtube. Some of them are quite crazy. This link I liked the most []. There is also some useful information here; [].

I like the mtv article. I think we could use that as a good intro about how important youtube is. Take it and say this is how important youtube has become to pop culture so as educators we should try and harness this new trend. Ideas? We need a artifact too idk what to do for that.

Zach: We had discussed making a video for youtube similar to the Plain English video we saw in class. We could show how to post an educational video to youtube or something like that. We also talked about making a youtube video with embedded links that lead to different videos. We can use this to either get peoples’ opinion on things by leading them to different cites or we can have almost like a little survey or quiz. I’m not sure how to do that but I think we can figure it out. There were two different directions we thought about going with the project, either from the students’ perspective or the administrative. We can either talk about why youtube is banned or how to get around schools blocks on youtube. We could also go over how to use it as a teacher. Here is a video on how to post videos. []

Aaron Bashline: I like the plain English video Idea as a 'how to' youtube. Then we could do Jess' option of having a text poll asking the students if they feel the relevance of youtube in the classroom. We could have a small open discussion on what the students think the pro's and con's could be in the classroom.

Brett: While I definitely still like the video idea, since the focus is on the "Generation" that is being influenced by Youtube, I think it's important to examine the effects that Youtube has and is having on students, and the world at large. I found an [|article] that highlights some of the political and social questions raised by Youtube.I struggled trying to think of a way to get the class involved with the activity, but what about actually making a video during the presentation itself, with the help of the class, and then showing them how to upload it on Youtube? I think that would be an interesting way to get everyone to actively participate.

Jess: One way that we could get the class involved is having them do that text poll. We could ask them if they think youtube should be allowed in the classroom or would be useful if it were, or something like that. We're gonna need some kind of hook into our youtube lesson and I don't know if the text poll could work for that or if we show a video from youtube? Then I also thought maybe we could take a view from the teachers on advantages/disadvantages of using youtube in the classroom then do the same from the students? I just found a pretty good but kinda boring video on using youtube for a teacher (pretty much how to make sure nothing unexpected comes up after finding an appropriate video, it also mentions that there is a section called youtube EDU) []. Here is another article on using youtube in the classroom []. There is also now a teachertube.com, [] that we could add as a resource just for the class to know? I think if possible we should all try to stay after class for a little today, that is if we still have it what with the snow, and discuss what we exactly want to do and make up a little lesson plan outline. That way we can begin getting more concrete work done.