VIDEO IN THE CLASSROOM

I think that video in the classroom can have some real benefits for the students.  Video should be used as a nice change-up to regular classroom activities.  I don't think we should ask WHAT the video teaches, but rather HOW it can teach.  Some students are visual learners, so watching a video could be very helpful to those students.  The attention span for students can often times be very small, so instead of lecturing five days in a row and becoming boring to most students, throw a video in once or twice a week just to mix things up and keep the attention of the students.  Whenever you do something new or a little different in the classroom it automatically becomes fun and exciting.  As long as you hold up your end of the bargain, showing videos in class can have a really high value in my opinion.
As for how I would incorporate video in my class is very easy for me to explain.  When i was at 13th & Green, I taught a Waterford program to kindergarten students in the computer lab.  Everyday,at their scheduled times I picked them up from their classrooms and brought them into the lab and got to work.  It didn't take long in the first year I was there to realize that even repetition of this modern technology became boring to some students.  Then I discovered a Waterford video tape in a closet and was given permission to show the video as a lesson because it was the same program just in a different form of media. 
When I first started showing the 1st of a four video set, I showed it every Friday for a month and then moved on to the 2nd video.  I followed the same pattern for the net three videos.  When I started the second year, I changed that up to only showing the 1st video over and over until I knew the children were 1oo% proficient with the letter names.  I did notice that some students got bored with the same video over and over, however I knew that this particular group started the year much lower in their letter fluency than the first year students.  I compromised with the bored students by offering them a new video when they could name every letter on my board.  This actually drove the students to try harder, even at the young ages of five and six. 
I think the idea of using videos in the classroom is great for many reasons, not only to keep the students attention but to try and appeal to students who have different learning styles.  I feel as though all teachers should be open to trying new ways to reach their students.