Friday, August 6, 2010

You Tube Video: How To Serve In Tennis




The main benefit of this youtube video of the tennis serve is an alternate learning tool to engage your students in learning the activity or in this case how to perfect the tennis serve. Youtube can be a great source of educational resources for your class as it can be alternate to face to face contact with your students of you delivering a lesson or reading from a textbook. Youtube has many videos on different subjects ranging from lessons in sport to how tos on certain stuff: example wikis. Each Video can be official video to people’s opinions or their point of view on the subject. The youtube video what I have selected is of a tennis coach going through the basics of the tennis serve. I see this video as alternate learning method as it comes from a visual experience not through a kinaesthetic experience. Videos such as this one can engage students in the content and they are able to break down the certain skill by playing, Stopping and rewinding the video to decipher the skill. Plus they will be able to see the skill performed from different camera angles to get a better idea of what they have to do on the court, in which this video is a learning benefit to my students in there attempts to master the tennis serve. I can come back to this video to further break down the serve and compare notes to their own serve to further facilate there learning.

1 comment:

  1. Hey Dave, this is great!
    I think youtube is one of the best tools on the net that we can use in our classrooms today.
    They can explain even the hardest things into such simple instruction.
    I enjoyed reading your reflection on youtube videos.
    :)

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