I hear this debated topic often, do we allow students access to Youtube? Some say sure, as it's a great opportunity to discuss many digital citizenship topics while the other side of the coin prefers to regulate what is available for students to view.KidKam is a free online website that allows students to search through videos without the worry of accidentally coming across the inappropriate. The videos will be tailored to elementary aged students from Pre-k through 6th grade.
The first step is for the teacher or parent to create an account. Once logged in videos can be searched for under a variety of categories, or tagged by specific age groups.
While searching you won't run across any comments by Youtube viewers. Just instructionally appropriate comments by peer teachers recommending the video.
As a teacher you can create playlists of similar videos for students to quickly retrieve and watch.
As a parent or teacher you can go into parental controls and tighten restrictions to the website, like only allow the website to be viewed for a specific amount of time during the day or only allow videos in a particular grade level.
Basically, this is Youtube for kids, Youtube for the Elementary Classrooms.
