"a better way to collect and highlight all the great educational content being uploaded to YouTube by colleges and universities” according to a short blurb on the YouTube blog.
While I'm delighted that we need a place to display the college information. K12 is the place that desperately needs youtube.edu.
For example, my ninth graders have a youtube channel to support their work. Several months a go, Edutopia had a contest which had students upload their videos to youtube, so Virginia and several of my students did so. (Virginia was one of the winners.) For about two weeks, a flagged video showed an inappropriate thumbnail on the related videos.
So, yes, I'm delighted that youtube edu has launched. But again, youtube is something that we need for k12 and it can be done, although I'm not sure about doing it this way. It looks as if youtube has just added content from universities and colleges that have channels on youtube. Probably a pretty simple thing to do.
I know that teachertube is something that many teachers use, although it tends to be pretty slow. There are several ways youtube could do this:
A self or community ratings system that would allow filters to only let videos of certain ratings through.
Vetted educators could be a mass group of volunteers and content approvers. They would see a check that would send videos off of the "real" youtube onto a mirror site with only educationally appropriate videos. Let educators patrol and police it - it would certainly work as I think there are a lot of us who would commit to this.
What are your ideas.
So, bravo youtube for the FIRST ACT. May this just be the first act in others to come that will truly provide video for education at all levels.
I believe there will only be a way to change directly to YouTube for educational purposes rather than TeacherTube or other educational video sites, is if YouTube starts up another site like TeacherTube.
Example: Search education on YouTube. The sixth result down is Ali G - Sex Education. I will not continue with the 5th one. Just see for yourself. Also a Trojan Condom advertisement was on the YouTube Search result page.
Ali G is an entertainer not an educator. Nor is English class a time to talk about Trojan Condoms.
On the other hand, is educational videos to teach our students a good thing? Coming from institutions like MIT or Stanford, no doubt.
At 10/29/2009 4:47 PM, <a href="http://www.thejewellershop.com" title="Schmuck">Schmuck</a> said…
Young people watch Youtube anyways. You cannot stop young people from watching Ali G movies they might not understand correctly, and sure it will influence them in a not decent way. But using Youtube for education is the right way to encourage young people to learn and study. Not only for countering Ali G and Co, even more to bring more fun to the kids.
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I believe there will only be a way to change directly to YouTube for educational purposes rather than TeacherTube or other educational video sites, is if YouTube starts up another site like TeacherTube.
Example: Search education on YouTube. The sixth result down is Ali G - Sex Education. I will not continue with the 5th one. Just see for yourself. Also a Trojan Condom advertisement was on the YouTube Search result page.
Ali G is an entertainer not an educator. Nor is English class a time to talk about Trojan Condoms.
On the other hand, is educational videos to teach our students a good thing? Coming from institutions like MIT or Stanford, no doubt.