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Monday, October 24, 2011

Hello YouTubers!

Technology nowadays is allowing media creation and distribution to be cheaper and faster than ever before.  Uploading a video to YouTube is common.  According to "Video Use and Higher Education: Options for the Future" (report by Copyright Clearance Center, Intelligent Television, and New York University),
13 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube per minute.  The following table illustrates what percentage of faculty use video and what type:



People collaborate on videos allowing for more openness and free exchange.  More and more companies are getting free advertisement and influence on the marketplace through video.  What should be of utmost importance is how video is used to further education and humankind.  Now this is just my point of view.  What video does for the world is amazing.  In a previous post, I included a reference to a website called "Nautilus Live".  On it, a person can view a live underwater exploration.  Imagine what type of species one can encounter or how a child's mind can associate with science in seeing something almost right before their eyes?

There are so many websites out there with informational videos that can help direct a person's life goals.  I have found videos on TED to be inspirational, videos on YouTube to be stress-relieving, and videos on MIT's OCW to be educational.  I have found videos on websites like MSNBC.com to be informative in world news events.  I could go on and on, but I think you get the point. 

Having tried to figure out ways to overcome the cultural barriers that one might face in certain countries regarding video use, Professor Curtis Bonk suggested using TeacherTube (directed more at teacher use).  He also suggested getting permission from the school administration for viewing a certain list of videos/websites and one can go from there.  Hey, if you've got video, you've got my attention.

2 comments:

  1. I really wish YouTube would publish an option to open without the sidebar being visible. It doesn't seem like it would be hard to do and would encourage more teachers and schools to make use of YouTube as a resource.

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  2. The use to video as an educational utility is indeed a welcome addition to the already existing arsenal of other technology driven utilities that are aimed towards making learning a better and more understandable process.
    Several Internet sites allow users to upload their video clips and presumably the most popular among those is YouTube. Not only does YouTube has educational videos, but it also has several videos related to 'how to' which in my opinion are more illustrative and useful than reading a manual for fixing something or for even learning how to swim! :)

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