There are so many great videos on YouTube… the frustrating thing is when a teacher finds an EXCELLENT video when she’s planning her lesson at home, but then gets to school and finds out that YouTube is blocked (surprisingly, not everyone is aware of this!). This actually just happened to a second grade teacher who wanted to show an Apollo 11 video during the second grade’s Friday night lock-in/sleepover where they focused on all things to do with the 2nd grade solar system science standards. She realized this at 3:30 on that Friday afternoon, frantically called us, and we actually unblocked YouTube for 5 minutes so I could help her convert it with Zamar, and then one of our techs turned the block back on! (These are the teachers’ perks of working in a small school system… we bend over backwards for them!!)

I particularly love the help videos on YouTube. Like you said, Jerrie, you can find how to do anything technologically on YouTube! I recently got an iPod Touch for my birthday and we purchased a set of them to use with the after school program at 2 schools, so I’m particularly interested in some of the applications- especially the free ones- we can download on the iPod Touches.

This video shows how to download and use the Google Earth app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. As soon as I’m finished with all my “Things” I’m going to do this!