Resurrecting my YouTube Channel

Published: 2023-12-12 2:28 PM

Category: Teaching | Tags: youtube, video, instruction, tutorials, tools

I decided to become more active on my YouTube channel again. Students discovered it on their own while doing whatever they do when they look up teachers and they started going through the very old backlog. My style and methods of teaching have changed significatly since some of those original videos were posted, but they don't take me long to make and of the videos I've posted in the last couple of weeks, several students have come up and thanked me for having them available.

I think video as a learning tool is helpful, but not as the primary mode of interaction. I'm sticking with the "Quick Chem" idea right now where I simply talk through an example problem or situation. John Hattie classifies this as a "worked example" - some kind of video that shows the thought process behind doing a thing. In my situation, I want students to engage with the material in class and then go to the video when they need a quick refresher.

I don't want to be a content creator and I don't want my channel to become a main focus. It'll probably just be me, a science teacher, teaching science. And maybe some other stuff.