YouTube for Schools
If your school doesn’t allow open access to YouTube, your school can now sign up for YouTube for Schools, announced on 11 Dec.
http://www.youtube.com/schools
YouTube for Schools filters YouTube videos and only allows access to the thousands of educational videos from YouTube EDU, from groups such as TED, PBS, Khan Academy, Numberphile, various universities etc. Teachers can log in and watch any video, but students can only watch YouTube EDU videos (plus any videos their school has added). All video comments and related video suggestions are disabled. Teachers can create playlists – many are available at www.youtube.com/Teachers
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2011/12/opening-up-world-of-educational-content.html
YouTube stats….
http://www.youtube.com/t/press_statistics
Over 3 billion videos are viewed a day.
48 hours of video are uploaded every minute, resulting in nearly 8 years of content uploaded every day.
70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US.
It’s strange when you think back to a time when we didn’t have access to all these online videos…and how cool are cat videos?