This week's Top Ten List

Top Ten Things a Teacher Can Learn on YouTube and TeacherTube
10. You can spend (waste?) hours looking at material on YouTube. The list of related items that comes up after you watch one video is deadly.
9. Husbands take an increased interest in one’s graduate homework when it takes the form of online videos.
8. You can not access YouTube from school computers in our District.
7. The groups on TeacherTube for members may be a great tool for discussion and collaboration.
6. There are a lot of TeacherTube applications and tools that seem to be underused. I joined a discussion group on ‘Digital Storytelling’ this week. I am the second official member.
5. Students are more interested in uploading and creating material than watching someone else’s video on TeacherTube.
4. Most teachers at my school were not previously aware of Teacher Tube.
3. Someone else’s well-executed video on Teacher Tube is better than what I would have made, and saved a tonne of time in planning a motivating kick-off for our school-wide professional development day in October (Shift Happens, Pay Attention).
2. Writing a portion of this blog entry at a lake cabin with no internet access sounds like a lovely idea, but it makes one acutely aware of an impending Web 2.0 addiction
1. In my reflection this week I have truly realized that the power of Web 2.0 is the collaboration and social nature of the tools. Collaboration versus Consumption.