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YouTube can broaden a teacher's audience to include the world! Here's an article that shows how five professors use YouTube to show off their unique styles of teaching. Choose one that interests you and watch the video, then post a comment telling what you liked and/or didn't like about the video and how you might adapt one of that professor's strategies to your own teaching. Here's the link to the article with the embedded videos: http://www.educationdive.com/news/5-professors-on-youtube-who-nailed-teaching/181504/

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4. SHELLY KAGAN
Yale University
​Shelly Kagan specializes in moral philosophy and some of his most popular YouTube videos are lectures from a course titled simply "Death." His book of the same name was adapted into an essay that explored the question "Why is death bad?" Other lectures in the class cover the topics of suicide and the fear of death.

I like how he sits very casually on his desk, like he is on the same level as his students. I like how he recaps from what they had discussed from the previous class, so they can pickup where they left off. I think I would adapt his strategy by getting the class more involved. I realize that he is lecturing to college students, but as a future elementary school teacher I would need to adapt to my students. I would need to make this lecture much shorter, include visuals, group work and videos. I like that he did not sit down the whole time, he drew pictures on the board. I also appreciated his energy, it was a long lecture but he kept me interested. Plus the topic was intriguing. The only negative was that it was almost an hour long of him just talking, which is a long time to keep anyone's attention.