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A Cleaner Internet - Browser Extensions and Add-ons

A Cleaner Internet - Browser Extensions and Add-ons

Listen and Write - Dictation Are you a brainiac? Take the YouTube EDU Pop Quiz As Chris Anderson, founder of TED, said, “Tomorrow's best teachers will be global stars reaching literally millions of kids”. We believe that the next generation of great teachers will come from all walks of life - they might be popular vloggers, lifelong educators, popular scientists, or journalists - and we’re working hard to get them sharing their knowledge on YouTube EDU. To highlight the breadth and depth of awesome educational content we have on the site today, we worked with some of our newest YouTube EDU partners to put together an interactive game testing your smarts. At the end of the video you’ll be asked a question which you should answer using the annotations embedded in the video. This will automatically take you on to the answer, and to the next question. The quiz has five questions in total, each from a different YouTube EDU partner, and then at the end you’ll receive your score.

Looking ahead in the YouTube player Pssst! We’ve got a surprise — we want to give you a sneak peek to videos on YouTube. Years ago we created a way to link to a certain moment on a video, which let you find, share and comment on just your favorite parts. Taking a sneak peek So excited (or maybe so scared) that you want to find what happens later in the video? Scanning through thumbnails Let’s say you started a video but had to come back and finish it later. Zooming in on long videos If you’re watching a video that’s longer than 90 minutes, like one of the growing list of movies on YouTube, you’ll see an added feature that lets you zoom in on the seek bar, one and a half minutes at a time. With an hour of video uploaded to YouTube every second, we’ve got a lot of sneak peeks to get ready on YouTube, and not every video will have this feature available at launch. Nundu Janakiram, product manager, recently watched “Brush With Death.”

A Cleaner Internet: Reduce Clutter and Enhance Youtube Viewing I’ve written about Readability and Readability Redux. These are browser add-ons that remove distracting clutter from web pages and customize the reading experience in terms of style, font size and margin width. Today I’m writing about a browser extension that reduces clutter from Youtube and customizes the viewing experience. I believe this may be especially helpful for individuals who experience challenge with their vision. A Cleaner Internet is a browser add-on available for Safari, Firefox and Chrome. After the extension is installed, when you go to Youtube.com, you see only the simple search bar shown below. Here are the first three results returned for ‘india trains paulhami’. Here’s what I see when I select the second option. Finally, here’s what I see when I click ‘Dim Lights’.

acljohn Can a college or university stream feature films through its VLE? To stream a feature film there are two issues involved, and two possible sets of permission required: permission to convert the film to a format suitable for streaming, and permission to show a film to an audience. 1. Permission to convert the film to a format suitable for streaming To stream a film from a server would inevitably require changing the format from video or DVD to a format suitable for streaming. A college or university is NOT allowed to change a film from video or DVD to another format without first contacting the producer and/or principal director. Obtaining the required permission could be time-consuming and costly. 2. For the college or university to rely on this exception movie content that is subsequently put on the VLE should be accessible only to the staff providing the instruction and students receiving it. However the PVSL is limited to showing films within the licensed premises which would prohibit accessing the VLE outside of college or university premises.

5 Interesting Virtual Museums and Activities for Students As field trip budgets are increasingly trimmed at schools everywhere, teachers will need to find some alternative virtual activities for students. Here are five museums that offer excellent virtual tours and activities for students. The Vatican Museums website hosts a fairly detailed virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel. The tour allows visitors to zoom in on small areas and details of the interior of the Sistine Chapel. Visitors to the virtual tour can turn 360 degrees to view the interior of the Sistine Chapel from various angles. In addition to the tour of the Sistine Chapel the Vatican Museums host virtual tours of five other places and exhibits. The European Virtual Museum is the product of collaboration between twenty-seven European museums. Tenement Museum is a resource for US History teachers that can best be described as an interactive virtual museum. The JFK Presidential Library and Museum website has four interactive exhibits for learning about John F.

Easier copyright management on YouTube From Justin Bieber to The Gregory Brothers, YouTube is a platform for anyone with a passion for performing to showcase their musical talents and get noticed across the web. Smart copyright management is an important part of this online video service—it helps songwriters and performers to be appropriately compensated for their works, while also allowing for those works to be used in new ways. YouTube has had a longstanding commitment to solving the really tough challenges around online copyright—how to manage content rights in a quickly evolving technology world. We’ve already invested tens of millions of dollars in content management technology such as Content ID and, with over 3,000 major media companies using it, we’ve come a long way in just a few years. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve acquired RightsFlow, a New York-based company that helps songwriters, recording artists, record labels, distributors and online music services manage music rights.

Video Infographs - download cool infographics Get more into what you love on YouTube with our new look From your favorite sports highlights and dance competitions to make-up tutorials, science experiments and great movies, there’s a ton of great stuff on YouTube — over three billion views worth per day by last count. More and more, behind every great video is a great Channel, and with our announcement last month that more of them are coming to YouTube, we want to make it easier for you to find and keep tabs of what you want to watch. So, today we're introducing a new homepage, Channel design and a fresh coat of digital paint. 1. For step by step instructions on using the new YouTube homepage, you can go to our help center. 2. 3. Ready to get started? Our recent Channels expansion, our grants and educational programs, and this new design are all focused on helping you discover a broader range of entertainment on YouTube. The YouTube team

5 Ways Your Old YouTube Videos Can Triple Their Visibility Are you frustrated with your YouTube and video marketing efforts? Most business owners by uploading a few videos, then walk away. They return in a few weeks to notice each video has only a handful of views. Is that your experience? In this article, I’m going to reveal to you , so your YouTube marketing efforts won’t be in vain. Ready? #1 Action-Step: Identify Your Keywords Reworking keywords is the best place to start when working with your existing videos. Using Google’s Keyword Research Tool , you can quickly , and you can market your videos accordingly. Let’s start by picking just one of your videos. ? Once you’re logged into YouTube, simply click the “Edit” button above your video and you can change, tweak and ! This video is ranked #1 on YouTube for "Video Salesletter." Do this properly, and your video will for your keyword. #2 Action-Step: 3x Call to Action Here are to each of your existing videos to convert each view into highly targeted traffic. The call-to-action overlay. .

Are FE and HE institutions required to purchase the MPLC Umbrella Licence to view pre-recorded films in public? > JISC Legal > ManageContent The Motion Picture Licensing Company (MPLC) Umbrella licence (available at is not required when showing DVDs or pre-recorded films for educational purposes, for the following reasons: S.34 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 deals with performing or showing copyright works before an educational audience. S.34(2) deals with the showing of a DVD, and states: “(2) The playing or showing of a sound recording, film or broadcast before [an audience consisting of teachers and pupils at an educational establishment and other persons directly connected with the activities of the establishment] at an educational establishment for the purposes of instruction is not a playing or showing of the work in public for the purposes of infringement of copyright.” (the section in square brackets is from s.34(1)). However, the licence on the DVD itself needs to be considered. Filmbank operates the Public Video Screening Licence (PVSL).

YouTube Makes Some Changes To Improve User Experience [News] The worlds most popular way to share and watch videos has received a small update that brings a few improvements. YouTube has quietly rolled out these new features, and while they won’t necessarily revolutionize the way you watch and create videos on YouTube, they are some very nice changes that keep them ahead of the pack in terms of creating and watching videos on the web. The first change this new update brings is with the screen that comes up when you finish watching a video. The new end of video screen is more like a mosaic, making it easier to find exactly what you want to watch next. The next change comes in the playlist bar. YouTube also improved their charts feature. They also added localization for more countries such as Kenya, Singapore and the Philippines, bringing their total to 35 countries. The last change is a partnership with cloud-based video editing service WeVideo for creators. Source: YouTube Official Blog

What is the legal position concerning the embedding of YouTube videos in a password protected VLE? > JISC Legal > ManageContent The answer is that it depends on what is permitted by the owner of the rights in the work being copied and made available to learners. The law of copyright applies to content that would be embedded in the VLE. Strictly making available to the public an infringing work (here to learners via the VLE - password protected or not) is further infringement. So if the content to be embedded in the VLE is an infringing copy, the institution is likely to be considered to be making an infringing copy available to the public. This is “Infringement by communication to the public", section 20 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA) as amended. Although embedding may or may not be copying, it is nevertheless likely to be considered communication to the public for the purposes of the legislation. Consequently, the onus remains on the lecturer to clear the rights of any content that they make available to learners via the VLE - including content sourced from YouTube.

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