My first video review is going to be of Lisa Highfill’s Youtube channel. I met Lisa Highfill at the 2013 Fall CUE conference.
She was one of the best presenters I have ever encountered at CUE, and all the
presenters are usually of an extremely high caliber. She has mastered the art of
using Youtube as a teaching tool in her classroom and taught us how to create
our own Youtube channel so that we could be “curators of content” and also
specific strategies for engaging children with the videos. Her
trademark strategy is to begin a video clip and then cut it right at the moment
of highest interest. The children make predictions about what might happen next
or summarize what they think is going on. Often the “reveal” at the end of the
clip shows that things are not always what they seem. She uses Youtube in many differenent ways and for different purposes. She might use a video clip on Youtube as an "into" for any lesson to raise excitement about the topic at hand, to create schema for topics such as weather and tornados, or even to teach the difficult standard of inference.
She also taught us the practical lessons of how to create playlists on your own Youtube channel, how to find good content by connecting with other educators on Youtube EDU, and how to get rid of the scrolling ads on the right side of Youtube which can also have inappropriate content in them. (Are you ask sick as I am of the ever so annoying “how to
remove belly fat” woman with shrinking belly that constantly scrolls on the
right?)
Lisa Highfill is also a master at helping us remember that the technology is not the thing, or as Shakespeare would have said, “the child is the thing,” not the bells and whistles of the latest and greatest technology. Every piece of new technology is only as good as the
teacher who is integrating it into his/her classroom, so we have to keep our
focus on the learning and use technology towards those learning goals, not the
other way around.
After reviewing her Youtube site for this assignment, I have a lot of new ideas about how to set up my own Youtube channel and potential playlists I want for my Kindergarten level. I’ve included several links to Lisa Highfill’s content, and she is also slated to present again at the Spring 2014 CUE conference in Palm Springs. Subscribe to her Youtube channel and check out how she organizes her playlists.
http://www.youtube.com/user/highfill5267/featured
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXAp1lCK1ak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM6HiyAKjtw
She was one of the best presenters I have ever encountered at CUE, and all the
presenters are usually of an extremely high caliber. She has mastered the art of
using Youtube as a teaching tool in her classroom and taught us how to create
our own Youtube channel so that we could be “curators of content” and also
specific strategies for engaging children with the videos. Her
trademark strategy is to begin a video clip and then cut it right at the moment
of highest interest. The children make predictions about what might happen next
or summarize what they think is going on. Often the “reveal” at the end of the
clip shows that things are not always what they seem. She uses Youtube in many differenent ways and for different purposes. She might use a video clip on Youtube as an "into" for any lesson to raise excitement about the topic at hand, to create schema for topics such as weather and tornados, or even to teach the difficult standard of inference.
She also taught us the practical lessons of how to create playlists on your own Youtube channel, how to find good content by connecting with other educators on Youtube EDU, and how to get rid of the scrolling ads on the right side of Youtube which can also have inappropriate content in them. (Are you ask sick as I am of the ever so annoying “how to
remove belly fat” woman with shrinking belly that constantly scrolls on the
right?)
Lisa Highfill is also a master at helping us remember that the technology is not the thing, or as Shakespeare would have said, “the child is the thing,” not the bells and whistles of the latest and greatest technology. Every piece of new technology is only as good as the
teacher who is integrating it into his/her classroom, so we have to keep our
focus on the learning and use technology towards those learning goals, not the
other way around.
After reviewing her Youtube site for this assignment, I have a lot of new ideas about how to set up my own Youtube channel and potential playlists I want for my Kindergarten level. I’ve included several links to Lisa Highfill’s content, and she is also slated to present again at the Spring 2014 CUE conference in Palm Springs. Subscribe to her Youtube channel and check out how she organizes her playlists.
http://www.youtube.com/user/highfill5267/featured
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXAp1lCK1ak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM6HiyAKjtw