11.5 Things. Thing #4

Basically, YouTube is a publishing site. I allows for someone to post a video in a manner that other people can have access to it. This can be useful in the classroom if you were to ask the students to create something in a video format to enhance their learning experience. This can be anything from a movie to an Animoto or Photo Story. Once again, this is something on the highest level of Bloom's taxonomy, synthesis. It allows students to analyze their information and then reform it into a format for dissemination. When a student does this, he is most likely to remember the information for a much longer period of time or even maybe forever. One advantage is the ability to embed the video into another medium such as a blog or Wiki or Glog. Another advantage is that the work can be viewed by other students around the world if the right keywords are put in. Another advantage would be for the free and easy access to the video by anyone at anytime should one have a need to see it without having to bother the originator of the video.