Teaching with YouTube, an economics case
A Penn State economics professor describes using YouTube to teach his subject area. Dirk Mateer's practice is to set up a channel (http://www.youtube.com/dmateer), wherein he stores saved movies on various topics. That channel contributes to class content.
there are many useful media available on You Tube: movies of in-class demonstrations, short movie scenes from theatrical releases that are of interest to economists, music and music videos that are rich in economic content, commercials, clips from TV shows, news clips and current events, comedic media from The Daily Show, sketches from Saturday Night Live, and much more.
He also makes these selections public, so that he can publicize economics, and also attract attention and feedback, blog-style.
Moreover, another benefit of this YouTube approach is avoiding copyright problems, since the YouTube platform already addresses that.
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