YouTube
If you need a tutorial to help use Powerpoint or Twitter, look no further than YouTube. It can also be used for demonstration purposes in the classroom. A link to the relevant clip can be embedded into a your school's intranet site. I used examples of book trailers from YouTube for an English extension class.
There is a major drawback to YouTube and that is the sheer volume of material that is now posted to the site. I often rely on word of mouth or network contacts for great material.
Being in charge of copyright in my school, I often see how teachers break copyright when using YouTube. According to copyright laws a teacher can use YouTube in classroom if directly streaming from the source, they cannot download the video and then show it to a class.
TeacherTube
I have not really used this as a source, previously and found some sources that I can use when introducing the library to students. The link below is to a video on using databases. Although relevant to one particular library it could be used as an example.
http://www1.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=25586&title=Using_Library_Databases
Thanks for the great post. This video is a good example of the type of instructional videos available on both YouTube & TeacherTube. It's truly amazing how much information is available on these sites.
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