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Category Archives: YouTube


Have your say on the future of the Internet

June 6, 2008 – 2:46 pm

The OECD is having a Ministerial meeting in Seoul on June 17-18 on ‘the future of the Internet economy‘. Can’t afford to get on a plane and head over there to give your opinion? Well, they’re offering you the chance to have your say via YouTube. There is a YouTube channel inviting people […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau | Comments (0)

‘Canon’ fodder and remix

December 7, 2007 – 10:18 am

There are some brilliant examples on the Web illustrating just how important the read/write web is and the culture of remix. Along with these examples are also some really interesting stories. Take for example, the story behind the funtwo “Canon Rock” video on YouTube. This video was put up on YouTube about […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, read-write web | Comments (0)

on YouTube

September 3, 2007 – 11:43 am

YouTube has been around for quite a while now and there is obviously some great content on it. In education there seems to be continual debate on it however. Many of our school systems ban it and have all manner of reasons for doing so but this morning I was really struck by […]

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Another call by teachers to shut social networking sites down

August 3, 2007 – 8:35 am

It seems these types of calls are still appearing quite regularly. This BBC article reports on a Professional Association of Teachers conference in the UK. There is a desire here not just to ban sites such as YouTube in schools, but to shut them down. Locally we have seen a number of […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, social networking | Comments (3)

2007 Web 2.0 Awards

May 22, 2007 – 10:00 am

Well, SEOmoz’s 2007 Web 2.0 Awards have been out for a couple of weeks now. All the usual suspects are there such as technorati, bloglines, magnolia, furl, yahoo! local, craigslist, google docs, feedburner, 43 things, google maps, frappr, ning, flickr, picasa, linked in, digg, del.icio.us, pageflakes, and of course, YouTube. As you can […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, Web 2.0, Twitter, google | Comments (0)

I think therefore I license

November 22, 2006 – 5:23 pm

Intellectual property and patent issues seem to be popping up all over the place at the moment. This article in the Sydney Morning Herald warns that even owning an iPod could land you in trouble:
“Owning an iPod, camera phone or a DVD recorder might be enough to land you in jail or lumbered with […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, iPod, copyright | Comments (1)

Show the world (at least the online bit) how to do something

November 3, 2006 – 11:22 am

YouTube is a phenomenon and gives anyone with access to a webcam/video camera the opportunity to have their 15 minutes of fame (probably at least 3 or 4 hits anyway). I am sure there are all sorts of educational opportunities around YouTube but what do you do if you want to show people (using […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, viewdo | Comments (2)