Thing 22-Online Video

This year (through the inspiration of a friend see her channel www.youtube.com/user/kristadawnprice/) I have started using online video. I have a Youtube channel and also have them stored on my website. www.davidprindle.com and www.youtube.com/user/dprindle1/ . I and many of my fellow teachers feel that Youtube is a great tool for the classroom. However, at BCPS it is blocked during the school day. It is accessible from 3 pm to 745 am which in my view makes no sense. The only dislike is you don't know what is going to be the next video that may be recommended by YouTube and they may not be appropriate for class. I assume if the student watches the video through my channel that won't happen. I plan on continuing the use of this. I will be saving my videos in several forms....Quicktime movies to be stored on our school server (since streaming video is blocked at school), podcast form (playable on an iPod) and if necessary mobile phone size. In order to be better at all of this I went out and bought a MacBook Pro. Having been a long time PC user this was a huge move. But the Mac does everything easier than a PC with preinstalled software.