4TH GRADE RESEARCH PROJECT SUPPORT
I created both my YouTube playlist and my screencast on helping 4th graders with their science research project on the topic of Energy.
I'm relatively new to youtube playlists. I have subscribed to a few of them, but honestly it was only on my personal account. I haven't thought to use it as a way to stay current on topics that I teach. I will be looking to add subscriptions of amazing librarian and tech integrationist that can help fire up some lessons. I have used both playlists and screencasts regularly in my teaching. I have created playlists of book trailers for the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award as well as videos to help with state research projects. I create screencasts for various reasons. Mainly to help teach a new tech tool or research resource such as the screencast I created above. I have also used them to create parts of lessons when I have a sub. Since I only see students once a week, if I know I'm going to be out and students need to learn a new skill/tool, I hate waiting another week to teach them it. So I've created screencasts to teach it as I cannot guarantee that a sub will have the knowledge or training on how to use or teach these skills.
I think that these tools are very helpful and align with the UDL guidelines in many ways. It gives students more autonomy in watching the videos because they can either do it at their own pace, reviewing the material as needed, or if there are multiple videos to choose from, students get the choice of what one will work best for them. Videos also help with giving the information both auditory or visually, making them great for both modalities. One feature of Youtube that can be added to help all students is turning on the closed captioning. I've done this because of a student who is deaf but I've found that it helps everyone! I do wish that youtube would expand this feature to make sure that it is on every video and with better word matching.
Another way this aligns with UDL is that the video in your playlist or through your screencast can scaffold learning. Each video can teach a skill so that teachers can gradually release control to the student by the end. Videos can be used to illustrate domain specific vocabulary. The playlist that I created has information about energy but it also explains the definitions of important words and give illustrations of these terms or you get to see them in action (kinetic energy!) I also find that students are motivated and engaged while watching youtube. They feel like they are doing something un-school like since it is what so much of them like to do at home for fun. I recently used a screencast video for my 3rd graders to teach them to use the card catalog, and they were grinning, giggling, and sharing where they were in the video AND this was the same information I would give them face to face! Putting it in a video made it more fun.
I created both my YouTube playlist and my screencast on helping 4th graders with their science research project on the topic of Energy.
I'm relatively new to youtube playlists. I have subscribed to a few of them, but honestly it was only on my personal account. I haven't thought to use it as a way to stay current on topics that I teach. I will be looking to add subscriptions of amazing librarian and tech integrationist that can help fire up some lessons. I have used both playlists and screencasts regularly in my teaching. I have created playlists of book trailers for the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award as well as videos to help with state research projects. I create screencasts for various reasons. Mainly to help teach a new tech tool or research resource such as the screencast I created above. I have also used them to create parts of lessons when I have a sub. Since I only see students once a week, if I know I'm going to be out and students need to learn a new skill/tool, I hate waiting another week to teach them it. So I've created screencasts to teach it as I cannot guarantee that a sub will have the knowledge or training on how to use or teach these skills.
I think that these tools are very helpful and align with the UDL guidelines in many ways. It gives students more autonomy in watching the videos because they can either do it at their own pace, reviewing the material as needed, or if there are multiple videos to choose from, students get the choice of what one will work best for them. Videos also help with giving the information both auditory or visually, making them great for both modalities. One feature of Youtube that can be added to help all students is turning on the closed captioning. I've done this because of a student who is deaf but I've found that it helps everyone! I do wish that youtube would expand this feature to make sure that it is on every video and with better word matching.
Another way this aligns with UDL is that the video in your playlist or through your screencast can scaffold learning. Each video can teach a skill so that teachers can gradually release control to the student by the end. Videos can be used to illustrate domain specific vocabulary. The playlist that I created has information about energy but it also explains the definitions of important words and give illustrations of these terms or you get to see them in action (kinetic energy!) I also find that students are motivated and engaged while watching youtube. They feel like they are doing something un-school like since it is what so much of them like to do at home for fun. I recently used a screencast video for my 3rd graders to teach them to use the card catalog, and they were grinning, giggling, and sharing where they were in the video AND this was the same information I would give them face to face! Putting it in a video made it more fun.
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