YouTube EDU features educational videos online
March 31, 2009
You may have heard about this video-sharing site called YouTube, where you can broadcast homemade videos online. You probably haven’t seen these videos, though, at least not at school. YouTube is part of the holy trinity of websites most blocked by schools along with MySpace and Facebook. There are plenty of ways around these blocks, but the YouTube brass may have finally developed something that will make schools think twice about shutting the site out. YouTube EDU is a channel featuring exclusively educational content from top colleges and universities like Stanford, Berkeley, and of course, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (woo!).
On YouTube EDU you can find lectures, full courses, videos of experiments, student news broadcasts, and lots more. UNC’s channel features guest talks by folks like Cory Doctorow and Danah Boyd. YouTube EDU has a lot to recommend it, maybe enough to get your school to stop blocking YouTube. More to the point, your school will like what it doesn’t have — namely, the unedited, self-indulgent junk that runs rampant on YouTube. If YouTube EDU could also cut out the ridiculous comments, there’d be no stopping it. -BILL FERRIS
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