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≡ 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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The Library of Congress has just set up shop on YouTube. On this new channel, you’ll find some new and vintage footage. Above, we’re directing your attention to a clip called “Boxing Cats.” It’s from 1894 and was produced by Thomas Edison’s Black Maria film studio in West Orange, New Jersey. In no way do [...]
≡ Category: Google, YouTube | ≅ 1 Comment
On Thursday, we announced the launch of YouTube EDU. Now, as promised, it’s time to give you some more details about the new university video hub.
I had a chance to chat with Obadiah Greenberg, a key Googler behind the launch. And he gave me some insight into the genesis of the project. As you can imagine, YouTube EDU [...]
≡ Category: Google, YouTube | ≅ 11 Comments
Here’s a little breaking news: Today, Google has launched YouTube EDU, which centralizes the content from over 100 universities and colleges (get list here). This robust collection gives you access to lectures by professors and world-renowned thought leaders, new research and campus tours. At the moment, you can access over 200 full courses from leading universities, including MIT, [...]
≡ Category: Music, YouTube | ≅ Leave a Comment
It was time to do something new. So I bought an acoustic guitar and decided to see what I could learn on my own. And this, then, led me to look for free resources on the web. Not shockingly, YouTube has a fair amount to offer. A number of different video providers have posted lessons [...]
≡ Category: Google, YouTube | ≅ 1 Comment
It’s another good day for the open education movement. As part of an experiment, YouTube has partnered with a select number of universities (Stanford, UC Berkeley, Duke, and UCLA) to make lectures, courses and other videos available for free download. This gives educators and lifelong learners the freedom to watch educational videos offline, whenever and wherever they want, including [...]
≡ Category: Religion, YouTube | ≅ 1 Comment
Given that we were talking about the historical Jesus yesterday, this piece in the Utne Reader caught my eye …
What happens when you’re running a 14th century convent in Southern Spain that’s nearly broke? You could call up Jake and Elwood. Or, if you’re Mother Isabel and you run the show, you put a [...]
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YouTube has had the mass market locked up for some time. But, during the past year, it has been giving a little nod to more “highbrow” viewers. We’ve seen channels sprouting up on YouTube that feature content produced by universities and other high-value content providers. (See our collection Intelligent Life at YouTube: 80 Video Collections.) We’ve [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Web/Tech, YouTube | ≅ 1 Comment
We’re about to witness the beginning of the YouTube Presidency, as The Washington Post has dubbed it. When Barack Obama takes office in late January, he plans to give a new twist to a longstanding tradition. The weekly presidential radio address will now “air” on YouTube, meaning that you’ll be able to access the president’s messages in [...]
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Add another one to our collection: Intelligent Life at YouTube: 75 Educational Video Collections
UCLA has brought their videos to YouTube, joining a growing number of other well-respected cultural and educational institutions. Compared to other newcomers, the initial set of videos (see the UCLA collection here) is reasonably strong, and I suspect that it will get [...]
≡ Category: Science, Video - Science, YouTube | ≅ 4 Comments
This is perhaps a first: A university-sponsored video collection on YouTube that hangs together and contributes to developing a larger body of knowledge. The University of Nottingham has launched a channel called The Periodic Table of Videos, which offers a video for each element on the periodic table. In total, you will find 118 videos, [...]
≡ Category: Art, Literature, Music, Video - Arts & Culture, YouTube | ≅ Leave a Comment
One of our British readers turned us on to this post by the Guardian, noting that they took a page from our general playbook. The post features 50 of the best YouTube clips from across the arts, some of which we’ve featured here in the past. Among the videos, you’ll find vintage performances by John [...]
≡ Category: YouTube | ≅ 4 Comments
Michael Wesch, a professor of cultural anthropology, has become something of an internet phenomenon, having produced two wonderful videos that help demystify the world of Web 2.0. (Definitely check them out here and here). Now he has a new video getting some play. Below you can watch a talk he recently gave at The Library [...]
≡ Category: Film, Video - Arts & Culture, YouTube | ≅ 2 Comments
Now featured in The YouTube Screening Room: Jake Polonsky’s School of Life. “The film may be set in an elementary school, but it tells a poignantly ironic story that any adult will relate to. School of Life won the 2004 British Independent Film Award for Best Short.” A higher quality version can be watched here. [...]
≡ Category: Google, Most Popular, Video - Arts & Culture, Video - Politics/Society, Video - Science, YouTube | ≅ 7 Comments
Smart video collections keep appearing on YouTube. But rather antithetical to the ethos of its parent company (Google), YouTube unfortunately makes these collections difficult to find. So we’ve decided to do the job for them. These enriching/educational videos come from media outlets, cultural institutions, universities and non-profits. There are about 70 collections in total, and [...]
≡ Category: Video - Arts & Culture, Web/Tech, YouTube | ≅ Leave a Comment
A couple weeks ago we talked about a new trend in the book publishing world — creating promotional videos for new books and letting them go viral on YouTube and other social video sites. Here’s one of the better examples I’ve seen. 12 books by Lemony Snicket get promoted at once. Lots of bang for [...]
≡ Category: Film, Video - Arts & Culture, YouTube | ≅ 4 Comments
As mentioned this weekend, YouTube has rolled out its new Screening Room, which will make available a steady stream of short independent films for free. The initial lineup includes the 2006 academy award-winning animated film, The Danish Poet, directed by Torill Kove and narrated by Liv Ullmann. Within the Screening Room itself, YouTube doesn’t provide [...]
≡ Category: Music, Video - Arts & Culture, YouTube | ≅ Leave a Comment
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