[Year 12 IT Apps] YouTube down the tubes?

Mon Aug 6 10:50:43 EST 2007

Your students or school admin?

Meadows, Roslyn M wrote:
> Our students are limited to educache - I am still fighting against the
> fact that our students are living in the informational dark ages!!!
>
> 	 Roslyn Meadows
> Bentleigh Secondary College
> 9579 1044
> 0412 614 062	
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> [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Brentnall, Trudy J
> Sent: Monday, 6 August 2007 9:26 AM
> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [Year 12 IT Apps] YouTube down the tubes?
>
> It is a pain having YouTube blocked and as Cameron says it means that
> teachers need to spend time(and money ) at home saving educational
> videos.
> A reasonable alternative for educational videos is TeacherTube
> (www.teachertube.com) which is not blocked at our school.
> Regards,
>
> Trudy Brentnall
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Cameron Bell
> Sent: Monday, 6 August 2007 9:07 AM
> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] YouTube down the tubes?
>
> I wish we didn't have it blocked courtesy of DET. I now have to spend my
>
> weekend mornings (so as to use my Optus bonus download limit) 
> downloading the videos I want to use in class. I use the historical 
> footage you can easily find, I use bike trick videos for my physics 
> classes, I use the myriad of "how to" videos, today I am using footage 
> of open-heart surgery in conjunction with my yr 8 sheep-heart 
> dissection. There are so many useful videos on there, but of course you 
> only need 1 or 2 awful ones to make it a media issue and it's all 
> blocked. (sigh)
> Again, the kids can see all of it at home, possibly/generally(?) 
> unsupervised, whereas they are not allowed to use it in a supervised 
> classroom environment.
> Also makes it harder for us to try and monitor whats going on with our 
> (and neighboring) students. Can I show them examples of good and bad web
>
> practise on MySpace? No.  Do I know if they are involved in un-savoury 
> activities on YouTube? How can I, I can't even see it at work.  Do I 
> want to spend my after hours and my home/personal download time 
> occasionally checking on MySpace and YouTube? Not really- but makes a 
> good tax case.
> Cheers
> Cameron
>
>
> jturner wrote:
>   
>> Can I take up an issue with YouTube.
>> Our admin is looking to ban YouTube on the basis that "all other 
>> schools" already have banned it and therefore our students are at risk
>>     
>
>   
>> in ways other students are not.
>> Would appreciate some feedback on whether schools have banned YouTube 
>> or not - will be of value as we try to decide on its in-school 
>> educational potential. At the moment the defense is being held 
>> together by curriculum initiatives. Keith's input is more appreciated 
>> as supportive evidence.
>>
>> With Thanks
>> John Turner
>>
>> On 03/08/2007, at 9:23 PM, Keith Richardson wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> U-Tube has many excellent tutorials on Excel, some of which I am
>>>       
> using
>   
>>> with my ITA kids for U4O1 preparation.
>>>
>>> However, I also found this that might interest a few of you...
>>> Here is an interesting one I found to make Gantt charts for project
>>> management
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW_wGSFavTc
>>>
>>> Use Excel to create a project management Gantt chart.
>>> Cheers, Keith.
>>> Keith Richardson
>>> ITA List Moderator
>>> Head of ICT, Leibler Yavneh College
>>> Elsternwick
>>> Ph: 03.9528.4911
>>> k.richardson at yavneh.vic.edu.au
>>>
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>>>       
>> Dr J Turner
>> Head of Information Technology / VCE Coordinator
>> Presbyterian Ladies' College
>> BURWOOD Victoria 3125
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