I found this YouTube clip to be a good educational resource as I have ustilised it in a unit that I previously constructed. It is called Ocean Odyssey - Impact of an Oil Spill. Similar to the video that I constructed, this YouTube clip can also be used as a resource where students can extract information and be engaged in the mean time. It could even be used within a webquest as part of a collection of resources that students could explore to gain conceptual knowledge about a topic.
Even though YouTube has a large variety of videos available for viewing, caution should be taken as some are inappropriate for the learning context. Along with this, YouTube clips can be created and posted by anyone, hence the information that they contain is not always scholarly and correct. Even though this is so, there are many great videos on YouTube that can be informative and valuable for learning. Videos could be accessed anywhere and at any time by learners seeing that they can be embedded into tools such as Blogs, Wikis, LMS and websites. I found this YouTube clip very easy to embed after reading the instructions and think that it has many benefits for within the classroom including engagement of learners and catering for learners who have visual and auditory learning styles.
YouTube clip courtesy of NASAscifiles.
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