YouTube: Plagiarism Video. Related posts: PowerPoint: embedding YouTube video. Tags: Video Plagiarism YouTube I found this really funny, and quite well put together, video outlining the pitfalls of plagiarising text this morning. You’ll need to press the button (shown here) to get the captions/translation (unless your German is better than mine, which I’m sure it is!). There are many ways an Institution can raise the student awareness of plagiarism and this is one of the best I’ve seen. Video: The Singularity University. Facebook tips for Educators. MORE >>

Now this in itself is nothing startling as many video editing tools allow you to annotate on top of the video footage, but what this allows you to do is to add a ‘spotlight’ on top of anything that is being shown in the YouTube footage. This spotlight (imagine a hot spot) will then allow a URL (including another YouTube video) to be added to it. This then allows your YouTube video to become interactive in so far as the viewer can be steered towards making a choice which then jumps them from one YouTube video to another to another etc etc depending upon their choices. MORE >>

Video Creative Commons YouTubeHere is a great explanation of the different ‘attribution’ or license elements of Creative Commons : “Creative Commons helps you share your knowledge and creativity with the world. Creative Commons develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.” ” (Nod to @jamesclay for showing this on his blog first). Related posts: Video: What is Creative Commons? MORE >>

by AJ George I am often asked how to get YouTube videos into a PowerPoint presentation, and, unless you're using the latest version (PowerPoint 2010), it's an understandable question. Over the next few weeks I will show you how to insert YouTube videos into PowerPoint 2007 (both with and without an internet connection) and PowerPoint 2008 for the Mac. As for PowerPoint 2010, I have not yet worked with it, but it is my understanding that this newest version makes embedding YouTube videos a breeze.   Insert YouTube Videos into PowerPoint 2007 with Internet. MORE >>

In September 2010, the YouTube Time Machine (YTTM) was born. Select a year anywhere from 1860 to today and this service cues up videos found on YouTube pertaining to that year. Tags: videos time history youtube The concept is simple. Everything from TV commercials, to news reports, to music videos, to sports and movies. It’s quite the trip down memory lane to dial in the year you were born for example. was born in 1969, and the first thing that the YTTM played for me was a very disturbing TV Commercial for the International House of Pancakes. MORE >>