Using YouTube to Enhance the Learning Environment

Dwayne Harapnuik —  November 5, 2014 — Leave a comment

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!

Dwayne Harapnuik

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