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Educational YouTube Videos

February 6th, 2007

YouTube is a free website with a tagline of “Broadcast Yourself.” It’s full of junk and gems and it has great potential to support learning.I unknowingly created my first YouTube videos a year ago when my dad gave me a digital camera. For my sister’s birthday, I made some how-to videos on “hooping”, a dance form using a hula hoop. She emailed me asking if it would be okay if she posted the videos to YouTube, and then added, “Well, let me know if it’s a problem because I’ve already posted them.” Jessie received so much positive feedback and requests for additional instructional videos that she created a how-to hoop dance YouTube group and a Squidoo Hooping lens featuring the videos. (You can click on the link to see my first dance video. If you are a PE teacher, you’ll want to check out my sister’s other lens on how-to-make a hoop. Even if you’re not a PE teacher, you may be inspired to learn hooping. It’s fun!)

All of the positive feedback from the dancing videos inspired me to make some math videos. I’ve received dozens of appreciative emails about the videos. Now I have two YouTube groups specifically for helping people to learn math. One group is a pre-algebra group and the other is about Vedic math, the ancient mental calculating system from India. I refer students to these video collections for pre-teaching and reteaching and often post clips to my math classes’ blog.

Here is my latest educational math YouTube video, the Decimals to Fractions Song.

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