Thing # 20: You Tube, Teacher Tube and Zamzar (Part A)

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Here is a great video about Library 2.0. It is by Meredith Farkas, a distance learning librarian at Norwich University. She spoke to faculty at UC Berkeley about Library 2.0. The video has received great reviews on You Tube. It is a little long, at about an hour. But, it has some great information in it.

I also included a video by a 5th grade class about the value of recycling in my next posting (also part of Thing # 20). That one is from Teacher Tube. I know the young students I've had would have enjoyed it a great deal.

The value in having access to all of these videos is that students can take advantage of being visusal and auditory learning at the same time. They can absorb ideas more quickly and then more quickly start on using knowledge to create their own ideas. It enables students to use higher order thinking to watch these videos because they facilitate the absorption of knowledge.
And they make learning so much more enjoyable for students. This also facilitates learning.