YouTube is a black hole in space which has the capacity to move a viewer through time and space without the viewer being aware of any motion. (I know the science is fuzzy; but think of the comparison metaphorically). My search centered around the word school. The first video to emerge was AC/DC School Days cover of Chuck Berry (very cool music and even more interesting comments about the skill of the guitarist) and from there I ventured into the early 60s while listening to the Reflections, the Satins and other memorial groups. The school search took me into the vidoe world of grammar: pronouns, nouns, verbs and such. I learned "how to" identify many parts of speech and my favorite verb tenses. One group of videos were produced by Chalk n Talk (these were very good).
TeacherTube yielded a vidoe on writing the narrative with an explanation of the elements of narrative. This was by far the best video. What I need now is time to select a group of videos to incorporate into the curriculum. I wish some enterprising Texas teacher would make and upload a video about the new TEKS.
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