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≡ Category: YouTube | ≅ 3 Comments
In a new effort to establish another home for intelligent conversation on the web, the Intelligent Channel went live on YouTube this week. Launched as part of YouTube’s new original channels initiative, the Intelligent Channel presents luminaries from the educational, arts, and cultural worlds in intense conversations. The channel will kick off with three strands of original video [...]
≡ Category: Education, Google, YouTube | ≅ 1 Comment
On YouTube, the path to education is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor’s edge. Left to their own devices, kids have a tendency to veer away from the math tutorials and head straight for the water-skiing squirrels. What’s an educator to do? Google believes it has the answer with “YouTube for [...]
≡ Category: Film, Sci Fi, Video - Arts & Culture, Video - Politics/Society, YouTube | ≅ 1 Comment
In 1941, director Dave Fleischer and Paramount Pictures animators Steve Muffati and George Germanetti produced Superman: The Mechanical Monsters — a big-budget animated adaptation of the popular Superman comics of that period, in which a mad scientist unleashes robots to rob banks and loot museums, and Superman, naturally, saves the day. It was one of [...]
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Starting at 9 pm PDT tonight, YouTube will make 10,000 Creative Commons videos available to anyone using YouTube’s video editor. Initially the Creative Commons library will be loaded with videos from C-SPAN, Public.Resource.org, Voice of America, and Al Jazeera, and you can bet that more content providers will be added down the line. This partnership will let video/filmmakers unleash their [...]
≡ Category: Art, Music, YouTube | ≅ Leave a Comment
On Thursday night, the Guggenheim Museum and YouTube unveiled the winners of a highly publicized video contest, YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video. The contest originally generated 23,000 submissions from 91 countries, and, from there, Guggenheim curators culled a shortlist of 125 videos. Then the big moment: 20 winners were selected during an awards ceremony [...]
≡ Category: Audio Books, Books, Film, History, YouTube | ≅ Leave a Comment
The most interesting and culturally significant free versions of, tributes to and derivatives of Lewis Carroll’s 1865 classic, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
≡ Category: YouTube | ≅ 1 Comment
Maybe you have noticed. (Or maybe you haven’t.) Almost every YouTube video featured on Open Culture can be accessed through our YouTube Channel. You’ll find about 225 videos overall, and they run the gamut. Intelligent lectures, artistic videos, comic bits, scientific explorations, historical footage – they’re all here. And, if you subscribe to our YouTube [...]
≡ Category: Education, YouTube | ≅ Leave a Comment
A quick bit of breaking news. YouTube.EDU has released Version 2.0 today and has gone international. The site, launched six months ago, now features academic content from the UK, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, and Israel. As part of this global effort, the YouTube team has brought 45 new universities into the fold, including Cambridge University, [...]
≡ Category: History, YouTube | ≅ Leave a Comment
The Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain collapsed a little more than 20 years ago (August 1989). And even though I watched the events on TV, my memory of it all has already started to fade. But that’s where YouTube comes in. Above, a quick refresher that makes my day. This clip comes from a [...]
≡ Category: Math, YouTube | ≅ 2 Comments
During the past couple of days, fans from our Facebook page have recommended two math videos for us. Here they go: “D” offers up a piece called “The New Math” (above), which talks, yes, about the revolution in teaching mathematics. As you’ll see, the piece breaks into comic song, and it all kind of has [...]
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