YouTube, BBC and the Victorian Government March 5, 2007
Posted by Joseph Papaleo in General.trackback
Recently, I wrote about the ban placed on YouTube in Government schools. Then the very next day, BBC announced plans to work together with Google (owners of YouTube) and allow clips of its news and other programs to be made available to users of YouTube.
Fantastic! YouTube users now have access to a great service.
And as a teacher, I look forward to the day where I might choose to use a clip from BBC in my class, just because I know it is there and I didn’t think to record the previous night’s news. So whenever there is a ground breaking news item or natural disaster in the world, I know that I can access YouTube and use it in class. Without organinisg to record the news, just in case something big would happen. How cool? An excellent example of using this wonderful resource in class. Probably more useful to Primary or History – Geography – SOSE teachers.
(Why is it that most news items are “Bad News” items???)
I wonder when the Victorian Education Department will reverse its decision to ban YouTube in its schools now? Of course, they won’t reverse the decision as they wouldn’t dare look stupid, would they?
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