Archive:YouTube

YouTube is a popular free video sharing website which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. Videos can be rated, and the average rating and the number of times a video has been watched are both published. The main purpose of this project is to find and promote educational videos. For further discussion and suggestions of similar sites please see the talk page.

Learning Project

This unit is associated with Topic:Internet Audio and Video.

How to hunt

First add major scientific field (or other) names to the built in search engine, like biology, chemistry, language learning, tutorial, ect. Not all videos displayed are suitable to link into this page however, so it is up to you to select the appropriate ones (should be educational related). Browse also the Related videos and More videos from the same user to find more material. Happy hunting!

Listing

Wiki(versity) related

Some Wikiversity participants have posted their work on YouTube:

• Wikinews Video - Pilot intro Wikinews by DragonFire1024
• TheWikicaster - Wikipedia article of the day read by Mac Davis
• Feedforward #2 - Part of the proposed One-hand clapping by Fidocancan

Biology

Molecular biology

• DNA wrapping and replication - Description: Computer animation, 3 min.
• DNA repair (nr1) DNA repair (nr2) - Description: Computer animation, nr1 is with voice (approx. 1.5 min), nr2 without voice, but nicer animation (0.5 min.)

Genetics

• Genetics 101 (part1 part2 part3 part4) - Description: The very basics of genetics in a short animation series (approx. 4 minutes each )

Music

• [1] video of an interesting music device
• [2] another video of an interesting music device

Wikiversity

• one and another by leighblackall
• a course assignment at Wikiversity Film School
• editing tutorial by JWSchmidt

To be sorted out

• Berkeley - 270 videos from University of California, Berkeley, various topics, lectures, approx. 1 hour each
• National Geographic - 623 videos from National Geographic, various topics
• FAOmultimedia - videos from FAO, multiple languages
• PBS - 1048 videos from this broadcaster, not so specific topics and clear educational content, like in previous cases, but definitely looks interesting
  • NOVAonline - 53 documentary videos from PBS

Participants

Note: Participant may flag themselves with template {{YouTube hunter}}

• --Gbaor

See also

Run a search on YouTube at Wikipedia.

• Digital information literacy
• Hunter-gatherers project
• ...