Week 9

Video from TeacherTube Number 1: From: Sadowskij

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=163946&title=Introduction_to_The_Catcher_in_the_Rye

This video introduction to Catcher in the Rye is rather creative. First of all the good things: citations at the end of the clip, use own drawings for some of the images, uses own voice for the narrative. The things this teacher could improve: the citations were fuzzy, small, hard to read and scrolled quickly, the citation for the music just said who wrote the song--we're not sure where she got if from or whether it was a legitimate source that gave her the authority to use that song. I like her drawings, sometimes its hard to find specific images for what you are describing--so she just created her own. No need for copyright there!

Video from TeacherTube 2: From suzannecanup

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=4423&title=Classroom_Rules

Well, this video is creative and probably entertaining for high school students. Let's switch it up this time; we'll start with the problems: no citation for the music he used, he also used the rhythm/tune of the song to create his own rap. Good: it was his own video, he thanked the officer :), and there were no logos or other such things in the background that could get you in trouble. Also, I'm assuming that since the police officer agreed to it, there's no copyright on his uniform.


Okay, I had serious problem trying to embed ANY video from TeacherTube, I googled why it wasn't working (and stumbled onto the correct way to post a TeacherTube video on my blog: I must include who the created the video and a link to the webiste). I looked in YouTube but found nothing worth while. So hopefully this is sufficient. Sometimes technology can be insane!!!!!!!! It just didn't want to work for me. So here you go. Maybe I'll try again on Saturday when I have time. So sorry that they are lame links and not cool embedded videos.