Activity #5

Hey, going off of what I said in the last post, I have made a bunch of videos and posted them to my MV youtube page. I had to activate the youtube account last spring when I began the flipped classroom PLC. I found making it super easy and once I made it I really looked forward to posting videos. A warning to those just starting to upload videos: make sure you look at the privacy settings. I always set my videos so the only way they can be found is by people who I give the link to or embed the video. Additionally, I usually set it so no one can make comments. Why, you ask? Because, despite my comfortableness in making videos, I don't want some guy from Alabama finding the video and criticizing my video. One thing that is great about the videos is on your youtube account you can check to see how many times your video has been watched and when. This is great, because if you have 30 students in your class and you check your video count and the video has only been watched 2 times, you know barely any of your students did the homework. It does not keep count of views though if you you embed the video (just a warning.) The video I posted under Activity 4 was a video I made entirely myself. The video I posted above was something a little different, where I narrated a video someone else already made. I found this was a great way to have students watch a video made by someone else but also to make sure got the info I thought was important. Sites like TedEd allow (Click here for the site) allow you to add questions to your videos as well. In the interest of saving time, I will only mention one more thing. You can annotate any videos you upload, so I often have questions that go along with my videos and you can have students answer those and bring them to class (also I have put the questions on it for class viewings, which forces students to watch the video rather than looking at a piece of paper waiting for the next question.)