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Using YouTube in the Classroom

3/23/2013

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As a foreign language teacher who is not able to take her students to France every year, I have found YouTube and other web video resources to be invaluable.  For example, while I cannot take my students to France, I can bring France to my students via videos like Fascination France.  When I teach French history, the textbook can be very dry and boring.  Introducing the content with videos such as Les rois de France: Henri IV can help to make it a little more approachable, with the added benefit of exposing students to voices and accents that are not my own.

Now that I am teaching literature as well, I have started exploring the wealth of resources available to enhance that curriculum both for myself and for my students.  As I mentioned earlier, I found the Crash Course videos by John Greene and intend on using How and Why We Read: Crash Course English Literature #1 at the beginning of the year next year, as a way of introducing my thoughts and expectations, as well as introducing a new (current) author to students.  Also by John and Hank Green, I like to show The 5 Worst Typos in History to emphasize why it is important that students check their work carefully before turning it in and why that one letter or one word can make a difference.

Another way that YouTube videos help me is by allowing me to introduce my students to current popular music in France.  Below are two of my students’ favorite videos from the year.

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    Angela Burgess is a high school French and Lit teacher, as well as an Instructional Technology Specialist.  She is also  understandably a Francophile and technophile. She obtained her M.Ed. in Instructional Technology from Kennesaw State University in May 2014.

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