Tagging videos as an educational tool

Over the last 12 months I have regularly demonstrated Veotag which is an excellent site where you upload a video, you then go through the video and apply ‘tags’ and a textual description to parts of the videos. these tages can then be used to navigate to a certain point within the video, or you [...]

The power of YouTube for creative writing in schools

I picked up a link to this YouTube video from Twitter. This is a poem written by a 15 year old, as part of their school work. This is very, very clever, and this is the sort of creativity and genius, that education so often drives out of people.

A vision of students today

Whilst researching for something else, I came across the video below on YouTube. I quite like this video, as it shows a few interesting facts that are often missed, and using the environment of a video without any spoken words to portray the point.
What is very interesting is this video has been viewed (at the [...]

The ‘legitimate’ use of YouTube

The video below showing IT support through the ages has done the rounds a bit after first appearing on YouTube over a year ago, but as James Clay references in his blog this originally broke copyright, but the owners wisely published this legally on their own YouTube channel.

This was a sensible [...]