YouTube goodies for the week (Friday 22nd July)

Sunday 24th Jul, 2011 by Chris Curtis

Categories: Secondary, 16+, SEN, Blog

Ah, term is ended and with it goes that urgent need to find a video that will somehow break a smile with that Year 10 who seem so unresponsive when you take their assembly. But less that six weeks from now, you’ll be back with all those ‘New year, New Hope’ assemblies and scrabbling for ‘that’ video to make your point. YouTube is perfect for that - most videos are just a couple of minutes and, unlike a film clip, you don’t have to explain the plot. They stand on their own merits… or fall.

So what’s been released this week? Nothing outstanding I admit, but there are a couple that I thought worthy of a mention. First up is this guy crossing the road on a very busy road in China. Wow. Does he have a death wish? Or maybe some access to the Star Wars ‘force’. Either way, rather him that me.


Talking about defying death, everyone’s talking about this amazing crash by Chad Reed in a Motorcross race Lucas Oil Motocross Championship’s Spring Creek National in Millville, MN, on July 16.


As ever, the application is over to you…. where, how - or maybe why - would you use these in an assembly. You have all summer to figure it out.

TAGS: lesson, assembly, video, youtube

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