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 * __Groups For Debate on Filtering

For Filtering:__** Dan, John, Mohyna, Nadine, Bryce, Ritchie

__**Against Filtering:**__ Luke, Derek, Deb, Aaron, Guy

__**School Board Trustees (a.k.a. big wig Decision Makers):**__ Chris, Marg, Jeff, Trevor, Allison

Questions to think about in groups:

For filtering:

What/who/why does filtering benefit a school, teacher, and student?

Against filtering:

What keeps schoolboards/individual schools from not filtering? What benefits do we gain from not filtering?

School Trustees:

What kind of donut did you choose at the Board Meeting?

Does it have:

a) nothing in the centre b) jelly in the centre c) cream in the centre

Some things to discuss before the final decision:

What are some pros to filtering?

Consider: student well being, parents, overall class audience, etc.

What are some cons to filtering?

Consider: cost, time, implementation, loss of ressources, etc.

__**Presentation Topic: A Look at The Youtube Trend & Youtube Expert Michael Wesch**__


 * __Background Information on Youtube:__**

- Founded in September 2005 in San Bruno California, and acquired by google in October 2006 for 1.65 billion - Has a wide variety of user-generated video content: movie clips, tv clips, music videos, video blogging, and short original videos - allows for mobile uploads - allows for Youtube Groups and Channels

=YouTube by Category:= Music: 19.8% Entertainment: 19.0% People & Blogs: 14.2% Comedy: 13.4% Sports: 6.9% Autos: 5.2% Film: 4.7% HowTo: 2.6% News: 2.6% Pets: 2.2% Science: 2.2% Travel: 1.3%
 * Education: 6.0%** *

__Youtube and Education:__ **Youtube allows teachers and students to access content, or create their own content as an educational tool. Listed below are some of the channels you can access for free educational content.**

YouTube Edu**: a youtube channel that enables content from over 100 different colleges and universities. Facilitates access to over 200 full courses from universities such as MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA, etc. Allows access to many academic channels: research channel, or UCTV.**

TeacherTube: **established by teachers to make a more educationally focused space for teachers, students, and schools.**

ESFhk: **a channel that represents a group of international schools in Hong Kong. It was created so that teachers could have new instructional videos for teaching and learning with technology.**

Wismedia: **made by WIS media teacher to ensure a safe area for all media students to post their videos, and to develop a database of student works as a teaching tool.**

__Directories on Youtube for K-12:__

Neok12.com: **enables help for students with these educational videos on a wide variety of school subjects.** Zuitube: **kid-friendly video search engine - also provides spelling corrections and suggestions.**

__Link for Youtube Use in SD67:__

Russ Stasiuk Digital Media Teacher - Photoshop on Youtube

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__Background Information on Michael Wesch:__


 * Michael Wesch is a cultural Anthropologist from Kansas State University, and author of the Youtube video "Web 2.0 - The Machine is Using Us". Web 2.0 is a short 5 minute video explaining how web tools are changing education. One of the tools he mentions of course is Youtube.

Wesch describes Youtube as a "worldwide participatory movement and a new user-driven community in which everyone is invited to participate."**

__Other Links for Presentation:__**

Michael Wesch

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Numa Numa - UBC Vancouver Engineering Students

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Numa Numa News piece - Tyson Miller

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Numa Numa - UBC Okanagan Students

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Numa Numa Original - Gary Brolsma with over 700,000,000 views on youtube, making it the 2nd most viewed viral video in the world.

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