10 Ways to use YouTube in your Teaching via @suebecks

I'm always glad to see educators recommending YouTube for Learning & Teaching. I have also found it to be a fantastic L&T tool and I often wonder how I would manage without it. Sue Beckingham is an Educational Developer and Senior Lecturer in Computing with a research interest in the use of social media in higher education - she is also the author of the Social Media for Learning web site. This week Sue gives some great tips for using YouTube with students:

1. Ask your students to create ‘About Me’ videos and share with the class
2. Create a playlist of videos you are going to use in lessons
3. Encourage your students to subscribe to relevant subject related channels or playlists
4. Showcase student work by creating a course channel
5. Use TED talk videos (or other relevant videos) as a focus for discussion
6. In place of a face to face presentation ask students to screencast their presentation with a voice over
7. Create how to guides to introduce new concepts
8. Produce video summaries of assessment briefs and the marking criteria
9. Use video to give students feedback (this could be a screencast with voice over)
10. Ask students to reflect on this feedback as a video and embed in their digital portfolio

Source: Using YouTube in Learning and Teaching (Beckingham, 2015)

There are some great ideas here - my favourite is #1. This would be a great way for students to get to know each other in 1st year. Also a good idea for using in porjects, eg an "About My Project" short video. I also like the idea of giving feedback by video, though I would be cautious about what might happen to the video if used inappropriately.

Video in Learning & Teaching is here to stay!