Archive for the 'youTube' Category
Interesting statistics on blog reading and YouTube
Hi folks
A couple of interesting things to ponder:
comScore have reported that more than 14 million U.K. Internet users have visited a blog in August (Web Link) 2008 and that 27 million people watched more than 3 billion videos online in the UK in June 2008, (Web Link). YouTube accounts for approximately half of these figures [...]
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Vlogging for Education – A Presentation at the Third Blended Learning Conference
Okay so it’s been a while but I’ve been busy tying up a few loose ends. Particularly I’ve been involved with the Blended Learning conference (Web Link) for which I had to prepare one presentation, 2 posters and a workshop. At the same time I have co-written two papers for Ed-Media 2008 (Web Link) and [...]
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University, YouTube, Google Earth and the wider community
Well I did it. I finally managed to embed a YouTube video within Google Earth for all to see. Google Earth is virtual globe , which sits on your desktop, and is created from superimposed images obtained from satellite imagery and aerial photography, (for more info click here and download it from here – its [...]
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UC Berkeley YouTube Lectures
As the title suggests UC Berkeley has created an official presence on YouTube. The university has begun placing entire course lectures on the site (approx 200 so far). They do vary in quality and in particular are not polished in terms of content, i.e. a lot of housekeeping messages. It’s interesting to see that none [...]
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Learning from YouTube
Andy Carvin at Learning Now has published a piece on using youTube to deliver a course. When, mentioned in an educational context, YouTube is often referred to as a source for obtaining information.
However Professor Alexandra Juhasz of Pitzer College is using YouTube to teach a course entitled ‘Learning from YouTube’. Essentially it is about YouTube [...]
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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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From YouTube to YouNiversity
From the blog of Henry Jenkins.
Highly interesting post of the possibility of social networks and knowledge sharing/choice/generation in the response to the need to the individual may or should lead universities to adopt likewise approaches towards education. It’s good read so please forgive the amount of quotes!
On the current context of social network and knowledge [...]
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Web 2.0 on the rise…
…but still a long way to go. Couple of reports on web 2.0 stats
Web 2.0 not so user-generated after all?
By Reuters
Sobering and brief article on web 2.0 in terms of users viewing and adding their own content. 3 of the main web 2.0 sites are considered:
youTube: “A tiny 0.16 per cent of visits to Google’s [...]
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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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