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YouTube = TeacherTube

Couple of articles relating to video upload and sharing for education purposes.
The first is a very brief article on youTube which mentions the possible learning teaching benefits.
A Teacher’s Tour of YouTube
By Chris O’Neal
“One critical issue to keep in mind when sharing and discussing these videos with your students is media literacy, including general Internet reliability. […]

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Web’s second phase puts users in control

Steve O’Hear (Guardian)
God introduction to web 2.0 or I should say e-learning 2.0 technology. The main focus is on using weblogs, video blogs (youTube) and image annotation (flickr).
A great introduction.
“The “new” web is already having an impact in class, as teachers start exploring the potential of blogs, media-sharing services, and other social software, which, although […]

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2007 Horizon Report on Future Elearning trends and adoption priorities

The 2007 Horizon Report (EDUCAUSE) has just been released. The report concentrates on specific areas: user-created content; social networking; mobile phones; virtual worlds; new scholarship and emerging forms of publication and massively multiplayer educational gaming. Consideration is also given to key trends, critical challenges and technologies to watch for. A great resource drawn from experts […]

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Distributed video learning and teaching examples

As part of putting together some slides on youTube I had a good look for teaching and learning examples on youTube. They’re very few and far between. And given the sheer amount of videos on there (and hence rubbish) hard to find by searching by category. The reason they’re are rare, particularly in terms of […]

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The rise of distributed video and vodcasting

As predicted in 2005 (which in itself saw the rise of social networking and user generated content sites) 2006 saw a vast increase in video sharing, most noticeably youTube (www.youtube.com) . The fact that anyone can upload a video for others to then share, embed within websites (including blogs) and comment on has created a […]

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New slides on youTube and Second Life

have recently put together some slides on distributed video (mainly youTube) and virtual worlds (Second Life). They’re not very detailed and do not fully explore teaching and learning issues. However I have included many examples for users to look at.
you-need-to-know-about-dist-video.ppt
you-need-to-know-about-second-life.ppt

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