Hi Andrew

In November, a mate invited me to assess a bunch of his students'  
presentations.  They were undertaking a subject called "managing the  
networked environment" as part of a business computing subject.   
Three students (of about 20) used clips from YouTube in their  
presentations.

One important thing that they learnt was to cache the video.  The  
easiest way to do this was to set the video clip running in the  
background before they began their talk, with the sound muted.  Then,  
when they came to present the video, they could replay it with the  
sound on.  This helped avoid the clip stuttering as it was fed  
through the university network.

In talking to my mate afterwards, he said that, in his experience,  
students are using videos from YouTube (and other sources) more and  
more often in their presentations.

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Jonathan O'Donnell
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On 10/01/2007, at 2:44 AM, Andrew Oliver wrote:

>
> Slightly off topic but does anyone know of any examples of youTube  
> being
> used for teaching and learning? I'm thinking along them lines of  
> anything
> form the presentation of a video lecture through to student and class
> projects.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Andy