It doesn’t take much encouragement for me to share my passion for using YouTube to enhance the learning environment. In the YouTube in the Classroom workshop at the Learning and Teaching Centre at British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) on November 5, 2014 we explored using YouTube and other media to enhance the face2face, flipped, hybrid or blended and fully online settings.
The following are all the Youtube clips and related links used in the workshop:
YouTube in the Learning environment slide deck in PDF – YouTube-Learning environment.pdf
How to instructions:
Introduce a concept
Start at 4:00 minute
Introduce a context & bridge into the subject
Start at 15:01
Introduce the Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) for an online course
Introduce yourself and make a connection with students
Humor & comic relief
Introduce the main point of an argument
Introduce the main point of an argument – Bonus
Definition and Explanation
Explore Controversy
Flipped classroom assignment
Link to Visible Learning assignment page
Perhaps one of the best talks on learning & education – My favourite TED Talk
This just one of many TED talks that I recommend. If you go to TED.com and filter by “Most viewed” you will see Ken Robinson’s talks as well as Simon Sinek’s talk about Why and many more amazing talks.
My blog post The Power of Media in informal learning offers the insights that I have found in using media to help my two sons in their pursuit of becoming professional downhill racers.
Finally, to easily download video clips from youtube and embed them into your Powerpoint or Keynote programs (educational acceptable copyright permitting–check with your department or library) you can use the site clipconverter.cc
Enjoy!
David Cearley, Gartner vice president, has been analyzing business and technology trends since Gartner started publishing the annual Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends. In the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2015 the following the top ten technology trends that organizations cannot afford to ignore in their strategic planning processes all rely on some type of interaction with cloud services.
- Computing everywhere
- Internet of Things
- 3D printing
- Advanced, pervasive, and invisible analytics
- Context-rich systems
- Smart machines
- Cloud/client computing
- Software-defined applications and infrastructure
- Web-scale IT
- Risk-based security and self-protection
Why is this important for Higher Education and especially Polytechnic institutions like British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)? We are moving rapidly into a global marketplace that is functioning in the Cloud. Unless we are preparing our students for this type of a future we are robing them of tomorrow.
This means that technology driven institutions like BCIT must not only embrace these technologies we must use these technologies as the foundational infrastructure that we build our significant learning environments upon.
