Here is my real attempt at placing a YouTube video into my blog. This one is about promoting reading comprehension. It's an example of something a library could do themselves and post on their website. It would be good PR and it could help promote reading skills in the home, something that would help academic achievement at school.
When I used YouTube here, I was a little surprised at how much junk I got right away. With Library, I got several porno pieces. I had a much easier time searching for guitar playing tutorials, some of which were excellent. I know several teachers at school have been using YouTube videos in their instruction, some very effectively. It was partially because of this increased interest in using them that we purchased a new filtering system which allows us to unblock YouTube for teachers while keeping it blocked for students. At some point, I hope we can block searches within YouTube like we do within Google. We don't block the whole Google because there are bad sites, but we do that with YouTube because there is not a good way to screen and block the bad within it.
TeacherTube is another good site worth visiting.
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