DTSE2007:YouTube and Google Video

Description of technology
A free database of digital videos in which anyone can post, view or comment on the material. This technology would be applicable to all areas of science including physics, physical/earth science and life science.

Ideas for Innovation applications

 * Allows students to watch things that they would not normally see in a classroom setting ex. chemical reaction that would result in an explosion, birth of an animal


 * Student or teacher videos can become nationally or internationally known and can receive feedback from almost anyone in the world GOING VIRAL


 * Provides an opportunity for broadcasting that is seldom available anywhere else

Ideas for Efficiency applications

 * For class projects (see below), videos are quickly and easily accessed by teacher and other students.


 * Teacher can record in-class review sessions or lessons and post them so that students may easily access missed classes.

Ideas for Community applications

 * Allows students to create their own videos for in-class projects and share them with the class.


 * Has potential to connect the classroom to the ideas of other classrooms in other parts of the world.

Disadvantages, pitfalls, or hazards

 * Some parents may have a problem with their child's image being broadcast on the internet.


 * Cost of providing equipment for recording purposes - Not all students may have access to a digital video camera


 * Although the sites claim to sensor their content, there may be inappropriate videos

Related technologies

 * Webcams
 * Videoconferencing
 * Movie making with Windows Movie Maker or iMovie
 * Phones that take movies

Links for more information
YouTube HomePage Google Video