Adventures in "YouTubing" plus a little Twitter update

This week our lesson of practice was to learn and explore YouTube!  Let me just tell you, I am not very Tech Savvy-but I love a good YouTube session!  Pretty much our family motto is "when in doubt-You Tube it!"

 For someone like me in education-I scan Instagram and Pinterest daily and see these amazing ideas for my classroom.  I always go to my trusty YouTube and watch countless hours of videos that usually lead down a rabbit hole and before I know it, instead of watching videos on teaching a guided reading lesson using the new Jan Richardson book, I'm watching a beauty video on how to candle my husband's ears!!  

So today I stayed on course (most of the time) and logged into my account I use for school use only!  I do have a separate account for personal use.

I have many playlists for all areas in my teaching position.  Today I added some new playlists to include Twitter and Twitter tools!  I am actually starting to like Twitter, which I swore I would never like.  The most useful Twitter tool I found was a tutorial on using TweetDeck.  Again, I was resistant to using this TweetDeck when I could not wrap my brain around Twitter.  But after watching the YouTube video  

VIOLA...

I have a TweetDeck and I even learned to add a column to add our #etec527 for class.  This a much easier way to see our class hashtag!

I also added a Wikis playlist, but haven't spent much time investigating these yet.  

There is also a playlist for Web 2.0 tools and each day as I check out our Twitter feed I am learning and adding more tools to check out!

Another new playlist I have added is a Library section.  This section has some great TedTalks about librarians and their purpose in our ever-changing world!  I have watched a few that are so inspiring!

My Zumba/Yoga playlist was one I already had established.  This past school year my school introduced clubs that were built into our Mondays.  This was used in hopes to promote attendance and meet the needs of students who had no extracurricular opportunities outside of school.  My club incorporated Zumba and Yoga and it made waking up every Monday a treat!!

Overall, I love YouTube for so many reasons.  As an educator, I know that there is and never will be enough time to read all the books or study all the curriculum.  YouTube is my life anchor when I need to know quickly and for that I am grateful!