Key factors to implement a multilingual and cross-curricular YouTube - Based Portal as an online Teacher Training resource

Resumen

Nowadays, social media, especially video, represent an important source of information, beingrelevant both in formal and in non-formal education. Training preservice teachers to use and generate onlineaudiovisuals as teaching resources could improve their teaching and professional skills. This study presents aninnovative experience developed at a Teacher Training faculty with the aim of fostering preservice teachers´generation and use of online videos as teaching resources. Student-generated videos have been located and disseminatedthrough an online TV portal, YouTube-based, implemented for this purpose. The preservice teachersinvolved in the experience generated more than 300 didactic videos. The online tv portal was designed to linkand connect the Teacher Training faculty teachers and students with other education faculties, and with someelementary and secondary schools. Additionally, this channel place value on student-generated videos andfacilitate their projects dissemination. Results show a beneficial interaction for all of them, including a widevariety of video formats production. The contents released through these videos reveal a multicultural andmultilingual richness, and a desirable and necessary interaction with schools. Flexibility in video and channelrequirements became one of the most important key factors of the experience, which was able to accommodatethe high heterogeneity among educative stages and institutions.