There are thousands of inspirational and educational videos on YouTube right now. Many are perfect for your classroom. Knowing this, YouTube has created a new site that curates these videos and organizes them into an easier-to-find system that’s perfect for teachers.
YouTube Teachers is a brand new channel that displays helpful videos on teaching and learning about basically everything. If it’s a lesson plan or teaching tool, it’s probably on YouTube Teachers. Below you’ll see a few of our favorite videos that were surfaced by browsing the new YouTube Teacher site.
As you can see below, the splash page to YouTube Teachers resembles a chalkboard background on top of a notepad. Because, let’s face it, who doesn’t store their chalkboard on top of a notebook? I kid, I kid.
I have really been enjoying the new site and have tried to put it through it’s paces. It’ll be a great go-to resource for all teachers looking for a lesson idea or thought-provoking video on YouTube without having to sift through a billion cat videos. (Don’t get me wrong, I love a good cat video as much as the next guy but now when hunting for an educational video.)
You can sign up to become a part of the new YouTube Teachers community and get regular e-mails about popular videos.
YouTube Teachers is really all about playlists. They encourage you, as a user, to build an extensive playlist of helpful videos about particular topics. Then they want you to share those playlists with others. Sounds simple enough.
Don’t know how to make a playlist or other finer points of YouTube? Mathademics put together a helpful video that is sure to help you out (video below).
This is the first of two big ways YouTube is reaching out to the education community. In a couple weeks, they’re expected to announce some larger changes that will really benefit teachers in particular. Stay tuned! Literally.
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How about other languages? Do you know if we will see international versions as well?
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Hey Jens, I did some snooping around and couldn't find out if they were going to be having a translated version. However, you can use Google Translate to view it in real-time as your language. For example, you can do that by clicking the 'Translate Into Your Language' bar on the right side of Edudemic's pages. Good luck!
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Very Noble this Education version …. however how do we get around the problem of filtering YouTube but not this site when the same name is used for every URL.
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