Art Tech Task #4

The tool that I chose to evaluate was YouTube. YouTube does everything. You can find a video tutorial on basically anything and it is so helpful. YouTube is not just for video tutorials, it can also be used for teacher lesson plans, movies, television shows, funny videos, etc.

I would use this tool in the classroom for lesson plan ideas, as I also use Pinterest for this too. I can use it for games if I need an idea, or I could upload an activity that my class did. I can put the students in charge of making their own video. I watched this video from a class the other day about phonics. I want to use that activity as it looked fun for the students, yet was effective in teaching them about phonics.

I would use this tool so that my students and their parents could look back on the projects that they completed in my class. I could use these as video projects such as creating a weather channel and my students would broadcast the weather as a science activity. YouTube is interactive in which students could take turns recording the scene and I will assist them in uploading the videos online so that eventually, they will be capable of doing everything on their own.

 YouTube has all the links and pages in the side margins which makes everything easily accessible. To upload videos, all you have to do is create an account, then on the main screen, click the upload button and go from there. Students might struggle with the distractions on YouTube. There are so many "interesting" videos available that students could easily lose track of what they are supposed to be doing on the website, but other than that, everything is relatively simply.