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cubanlord · Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Location: In Japan!

I teach a conversation class to 7 students in the 5th grade. These students are mostly high-intermediate to low advanced in level. In other words, you can stick most of them anywhere in an English speaking country and they will be able to get around just fine. Anyways, during my conversation class, I like to show them small-sized videos from YouTube. This is how a normal class usually is:

I show them the video once; they just watch it and listen.
The second viewing, the students are responsible for taking down notes i.e. writing down what is happening and describing the situation.
Then, they are given a couple of minutes to put their thoughts together and forumulate a coherent thought i.e. a paragraph.
Once the students do this, they stand up and share what they have written. We then, as a class, discuss it.

Sometimes, the discussions really go into great length. They seem to enjoy it.

So, this morning, while fishing through YouTube and adding to my collection, I came across this video. I was looking into natural disasters (mother nature being the central theme of this next class) and, well, you tell me....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVgTI-IHEug

I guess what I am trying to say is this: Make sure you watch the videos you are presenting in class and not just go off from the title. Last night, I was working on a weather theme and came across a video which had the first 15 to 20 seconds of an F5 tornado, then all of the sudden, I get these girls bottoming out to the song p#$%y poppin by ludacris.

dogshed · Joined: 28 Apr 2006

I preview videos and then cut and pastes the links to a draft email
in google. When I travel to different schools I log into my email account
and pull up the draft email with all the links.

Cheonmunka · Joined: 04 Jun 2004

Or, type in 'kiss' directly after the slashes and before 'youtube' of the video's particular url.Then enter that so it goes to a site where you can download that video into flash format. Type in the name for the video as you want it, and don't forget to type in the suffix .flv .... Get a free flash player such as 'flvs' (it doesn't need installing and vids can be played at full-screen) and carry that around on a memory stick along with your flash videos. A two minute video is about 2mb's.

pkang0202 · Joined: 09 Mar 2007

I'm trying to use Youtube in my 1st grade class, but I can never find anything I can use. Maybe I'm not using the right search terms.

Cheonmunka · Joined: 04 Jun 2004

search for 'The Wiggles'

If you are using a text book sometimes you may be able to get a song that matches the context or theme of the unit. Then you can supplement. If you are teaching young ones better off to download things like '100 best kids' songs and use those with cards, pictures, images and stuff to supplement your classes.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

cwemory · Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Location: Gunpo, Korea

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

bosintang · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:02 pm Post subject:

If you are a firefox user like me, you can use an add-on called VideoDownloader to grab the flv file from youtube and save it on your own disk.

After that: rename the file to something.flv. Download an flv viewer or convert the file to another format like quicktime, to watch the video.

ddeubel · Joined: 20 Jul 2005

There is no reason not to quickly download a video from your office computer or from home and then just insert your memory stick and play. GOM player, plays all the videos downloaded off Youtube, no problem. Also Media player and of course reliable vlc (www.videolan.org).

Simply click this http://www.youtube-d.com/files/youtubed_setup.exe

run and then open and then copy and paste the youtube link. Works fast, only have to wait at most 10-15 seconds for completion.

I also use WMR 11 but this is more complicated ......

Try it by looking at this neat video, very friendly for the classroom ....The Message

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0FvG9GO8Qs

DD

deadman · Joined: 27 May 2006 Location: Suwon

I like to use youtube clips for when the kids come to class a few minutes early.

My favourites are:

OK Go Treadmill dance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI

OK Go backyard dance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbdbVhBGETQ

Gnarls barkley "crazy" clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2B6SjMh_w

Gnarls barley "smily faces" clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZJ8hMA3eU4

Wingsuit BASE jumping

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDvMr36t6LM

Some comedic magic duo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuMMfgWhm3g&feature=related

Funny animals. (the cat at 0:40 cracks me up every time)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxa0mnDj0bs

and Trunk Monkey clips

ajuma · Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Location: Anywere but Seoul!!

agentX · Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Location: Jeolla province

I used Youtube videos in the classroom in the US. I found that the biology students liked the animal fight vids. It worked for a while before the school blocked it at Google video (it was during the height of the "Happy Slapping" scandals).

Dome Vans · Guest

I found this clip this evening and I'm going to squeeze it into the beginning of the class as a bit of a listening comprehension. Love it. Creature Comforts is hilarious even with the regional accents.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nJiETbEjvY&feature=related

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

download the youtube videos to your harddrive using http://vixy.net I don't know how many times a video I had bookmarked had disappeared.