ytlearn is a Wiki where educators are invited to share their own learning from YouTube and also to indicate whether or not YouTube is accessible to educators in their place of work and to see if they are aware of the reasons why YouTube is blocked.
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Learning |
YouTube url [if known] |
Name |
Twitter id |
Educational Institution |
Unblocked or Blocked |
Rationale |
Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9CnZoFUlT0 |
John Putt |
@wjputt |
Holywell High School, Flintshire [11-18 secondary school] |
Blocked |
Not sure |
Stop Frame Animation Using Movie Maker | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ourSxSLlvlw | Ceri Williams | @cerirwilliams | Torfaen Education Authority | Unblocked (at least wasn't blocked last July) |
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Using Google Sketchup to design robots (and other things) | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wSvMUdnW_8 | Bev Evans | @bevevans22 | Pembroke Dock Community School, Pembrokeshire |
Blocked | E-safety - mainly due to comments. Is unblocked in local teachers' centre. LEA run a service whereby you can send them url from you tube and they will make it available via the portal. Most people just download using real player or zamzar... |
Using film clips for digital literacy eg avatar, Disney's 'The Litlle Match Girl' |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GBGDmin_38E
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Cherise Duxbury | @cherise_duxbury | High Lawn Primary School, Bolton |
Blocked | Not sure |
Using film clip for Maths revision, as a starter for 'predicition' | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZx7dxz2CUU | Neil Phillipson | @BobToms100 | Grendon Underwood Primary School, Bucks | Blocked | E-safety, etc. LA wide filtering of YouTube, unless individual head request unblocking & then they have responsibility to manage very very use. |
Using Pixar Film Clips for PSE and Literacy | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJzQiemCIuY (plus a number of others in this style) | Bev Evans | @bevevans22 | Pembroke Dock Community School, Pembrokeshire |
Blocked | See above... |
Effects of smoking on your body animation (suitable for KS2) | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mjTchyMcD4 | Bev Evans | @bevevans22 | Pembroke Dock Community School, Pembrokeshire |
Blocked | See above... |
Animated version of The Highwayman for literacy | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le727fRZHpA | Bev Evans | @bevevans22 | Pembroke Dock Community School, Pembrokeshire |
Blocked | See above... |
(very good) GCSE/AS/A2 - la banlieue en France, l'intégration, l'argot (Grand Corps Malade - "Je Viens De Là") ♪♪ | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LXaSFgVxGs | Alex Bellars | @bellaale |
Ballard School, New Milton, Hampshire |
Blocked for kids (but I still access it via my laptop) | Not sure... |
Publishing staff and student work (animations, Prezicasts, sound files, etc.) for sharing with other students and also to get feedback from other sources | http://www.youtube.com/user/SociologyatCJs?feature=mhee | Ian Harris | @IGH69 | Cecil Jones College, Southend-on-Sea, Essex | Blocked for kids (but I still access it via my laptop) | Policy written into LEA provision on grounds of e-safety and generally because people get worried and don't like to address their anxieties |
How useful 'Horrible History' clips are to add into history lessons + being able to search for news clips from the last century | Dave Stacey | @davestacey | Olchfa School, Swansea | Unblocked for staff, blocked for students | Concerns about access to inappropriate content by students. | |
all videos in foreign languages- too many to list; they are ideal tools for language enhancement | too many to list | Kath Holton | @kath52 | Argoed High School, Flintshire | all blocked - for staff and pupils | e-safety, I suppose |
Too much to list in full!! Instructional/How to videos short films adverts for persuasive writing video version of books Horrible Histories Fun Science Steve Spangler etc etc etc |
http://www.youtube.com/user/Stevespanglerscience | Mary Farmer | @ebd35 |
The Cedars Primary EBD Primary Special School |
all blocked - for staff and pupils |
Pretty sure it's because: esafety and comments. Think they will unblock but becomes complete responsibility of head (strongly discouraged)
end up using zamzar or Tooble to download in order to use ;o(
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Videos for French teachers and students | http://www.youtube.com/user/sduckworth100 | Sylvia Duckworth | @sylviaduckworth | Crescent School, Toronto | Unblocked | Great resources for learning! |
This is clearly not the first attempt at raising this issue. Tom Barrett [ @tombarrett ] has written a full blog post on this issue on the edte.ch blog. The post is titled Blocked For Me, Open For You.
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