Also in week 5 we were asked to look at ready made videos. One of the best sites to find ready made educational videos is Youtube. You can pre watch the video before the class and have set questions or activities that you will do after watching it. It is simple to plan and the students respond very well to it. Using videos is also a good way to settle students into a class especially straight after lunch where some students may still be hot, sweaty and very fidgety.
Above is a short video taken from Youtube that shows the students how to do a simple warm up exercise to prepare them selves for a training session where they will be shooting at the goals. This is just one of thousands of educational videos that can be found on youtube. Videos can allow students to see what has to be done before doing it, it gives them a point of view from someone other then the teacher and they get a professional to tell them how to do it with out leaving the classroom.
This video can be used just simply as a time filler for a junior school class, can be used as an example of what the students are going to do in a middle school class and gives the students of upper school a starting block to create their own sport exercises for a training session that they may be having to plan. Videos can be used for a number of reasons depending on the age of the students, their cognitive and physical abilities as well as the subject that you are trying to teach. The students are constantly learning through videos at home and it is about time that we as teachers started to use them in our classrooms.
This is just a short soccer bloopers role for you to have a bit of a laugh at.
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