Week 4: Using video fron You Tube in the classroom and students' ability to post their own content on You Tube.(jacqueline V. Chavez)

This week I watched a video in which a teacher and his students are acting disrespectfully. I was shocked. In my country teachers are like our second parents and we respect them like they respect us. It is sad to see that this teacher couldn't manage his class. We all know that to manage a class we need to set the rules first. "No cell phones on," or anything that disrupt the class are the first things students should learn an put in practice. For me, this video is a good evidence that some of those students need a punishment and the teacher needs a reprimand because of the innapropriate behaviors. Parents should understand that sometimes their children are not the angels they pretend to be in fornt of them. Parents need to work with the school staff to find the way to prevent this event again.

Nowadays technology is an easy way to defame teachers. We need to be aware that techonoly may be used for good and bad purposes. For this reason, the educational authorities, teachers, and parents need to work in set the rules or standars to create a video for educational purposes. I am sure that teachers have enough professional capability to censor or remove some part of the material created by students in order to maintain the respect and safety of the classroom.

On the other hand, I would like to mention that sometimes You Tube videos are very useful for students and teachers. However, many utube videos may be very unuseful and a waste of time for professionals. For this reason, I am glad to know that we some inteligent professionals have created Teacher You Tube . This is a website in where teachers and students post videos for educational purposes. In addition, everytime this website receives a post of a new didgital video , they inmediately censor it to make sure it is an appropriate educational material for students. For me, it will be great if teachers and students around the world could create multicultural videos and share them in different languages to have a better accesibility and learn more about different cultures.