This includes short lessons from top teachers around the world, full courses from the world’s best universities, professional development from fellow educators and inspiring videos from thought leaders, right from top institutes like MIT to Smithsonian which is a large museum complex offering a variety of live and archived video experiences, inspirational/ thoughful videos from TED, Steve Spangler Science, and Numberphile.

Some of the best features of ‘YuTube for school’ or YuTube EDU are -

School admins and teachers can log-in and watch any video however students can’t log in and can only watch YouTube EDU related videos and only those videos that their school has added. Moreover, all comments and related videos features are disabled and search is limited to only YouTube educational videos.

YuTube EDU is pretty good at customization as well, as schools authorities can customize the videos, create playlists of videos that will be available at their school respectively.Moreover, YouTube.com/teachers is also there, as a tool for teachers, to allow them to learn use of YouTube as a powerful educational tool.

This is first of the initiative by Google to make YouTube as educational tool as well

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People across the world can capture any of their life moments from 24 hours of 24th of July 2010 and can upload it to the Life in a Day channel any time before July 31 and if that footage make it to final feature film premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January 2010, the 20 shortlisted footage uploaders will credit of Co-Director of that World Largest user generated feature film.

This unique user generated documentary feature film is produced by Gladiator and Black Hawk Down producer Ridley Scott and directed by Scottish director Kevin Macdonald. The aim of director thourgh this move is to take a snap-shot of life on earth during one 24-hour time. Kevin the director of movie on this social filming experiment stated on youtube that – “Ultimately, this is an unique experiment on social film making and a time capsule that will tell our future generations that what it likes to be alive on 24th of July 2010″.

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Let’s hear from the users of this academy what they have to say about the academy:

“…I just wanted to say that out of every internet learning site I have used yours is by far the best! The maths [are] just so beautifully explained. Thank you so much; now I really think I will pass my maths exams~!”

“My eldest kid is dancing around in my room here because she is so excited that she finally found someone that teaches like this. You’re awesome. Thank you.”

“Half an hour with your presentations taught me more than three months of sitting in my professors class. You seriously saved my grade.”

Salman Khan (Sal) who founded the Khan Academy with the goal of using technology to educate the world. He has the vision to educate anyone with access to computer and Internet, can come to Khan Academy and enjoy world class education. He termed Khan Academy as a world’s free Virtual School.

Khan Academy has a vast video tutorial collection starting merely from very basic mathematics, to all the way to college level Calculus and Physics, in short and encapsulated videos focusing one fundamental concept at a time. All the videos are made my Sal himself. His Videos are not emotionless and monotonous, like usual lectures in your school or other long video lectures by professors. From the videos his great enthusiasm of teaching is clearly revealed. The Videos clearly expresses the concepts and injects the subject matter with the sense of intuition so that you may not forget the basic concepts throughout your life.

Here are the lines from Sal on his teaching methodology.

“I teach the way that I wish I was taught. The lectures are coming from me, an actual human being who is fascinated by the world around him. The concepts are conveyed as they are understood by me, not as they are written in a textbook developed by an educational bureaucracy. Viewers know that it is the labor of love of one somewhat quirky and determined man who has a passion for learning and teaching. I don’t think any corporate or governmental effort–regardless of how much money is thrown at the problem–can reproduce this. “

To start learning from Khan Academy you just need to Visit the Khan Academy’s Website and browse the Video library. The extensive video library covers almost all the topics and concepts required at School level and basic college level. The popularity of his videos is clearly reveled from the millions of views of his videos at YouTube. Moreover, Khan Academy has been awarded for the best use of Technology to benefit humanity.

It’s really a great initiative to educate the world. Khan academy is providing the world with the rich and never-getting-old educational resource. Students from all over the world are finding that they are now learning the difficult topics much easily than they have done ever before.

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The privatized videos are categorized under unlisted videos. As the name suggests, the videos will not be featured while public browsing, not even in search results. Once you upload your videos, you are provided with three options and it is up to you to decide who to share with. The following are the three available options.

1) Public: Allows everyone to view it. It will feature in YouTube search
2) Unlisted: Allows unlimited number of people to view it, provided they have the Video URL
3) Private: Allows only selected YouTube users to view it.

This new feature of YouTube demands a lot of carefulness. You have to be careful while providing links and must share with only to the trusted members. Otherwise, there is no way out you can save your videos from being publicized.

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More HD Quality videos means improved sharpness in videos with visual clarity and difference is more noticeable in videos that have fast movements and in full-screen mode.

Here is a Test Video showing 1080 P Video on YouTube. For those who have already uploaded the 1080 p resolution videos YouTube will be rencoding those videos from next week with same 16:9 aspect ratio. YouTube has made this up-gradation attempt so as to cope-up with increasing resolution of consumer cameras  YouTube users use to upload their videos.

Noticeably, CBS.com and TV.com has got the highest video resolution of 1920×1080 P, from next week onwards YouTube will catch up the pace to showcase highest resolution videos on web and even able to let user upload HDTV quality videos.

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Star plans to sign up with a series of online platforms to make its popular content available online and on-demand.

Marking the beginning of this association was Channel V, whose ‘Get Gorgeous’  (a reality program) delivered on an average 1.5 million video views a day. For a company that is constantly looking at innovation for its viewers and adding value to its advertisers, Star TV’s sales team will manage the ad sales for the content hosted on the Nautanki.tv platform.

Sunil R Nair, CEO Nautanki.tv said, “Today India has over 80 million internet users. 83% of SEC A audience between the ages of 16 and 30 years are online. With figures like these, Nautanki.tv offers a unique opportunity for television networks like Star TV, who can leverage our platform to make their popular channels and shows available on demand to a wide online audience. Nautanki.tv has the potential to go where traditional media does not, and most importantly gives advertisers a measurable ROI, which in turn presents an exciting and new opportunity for them to market their brands.”

Speaking on this launch, Ajay Vidyasagar, President, STAR India Pvt Ltd, said, “As the leading broadcaster in India, STAR is constantly looking at innovative ways to touch the lives of its audience outside television. This tie-up with Nautanki.tv gives us a new medium to take our content to viewers in India and across the world and add value to our advertisers. Star TV Interactive also plans to create unique channels on Nautanki.tv and also roll out many such partnerships with a few of the top online portals in the coming months.”

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Automattic has launched WordPress.tv today as a resource for all things WordPress Tutorials and all the WordPress how-to stuff on WordPress blogging and development.

With the this as video/ screencast resource WordPress users not might able get thing sorted much easily that otherwise make them land upon either WordPress Forum or Google search.

WordPress enthusiast can also find slideshows of presentations made by Automattic employees and other WordPress expertsand even interviews of media and fellow bloggers. Automattic is expected to inculcate much more things in future to make WordPress.tv as community place to find all latest things happening in WordPress development and news.

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Ghajini is one big thing these days among hindi movie freaks and the producers and a digital marketing company for the first time in India has come up with such kind of plan. With few user-involving online promoting tools and websites Ghajini makers are reaping the benefits of web and internet.

The trick is its engaging official website – RememberGhajini.com to create maximum visibility for the movie. However in addition to the extraordinary website are the two viral application cum websites (below) that grip the user and give him an experience like the movie, over the Internet.

The creators of Ghajini and Hungama took this initiative to attract the online audience to the theatres. Exclusive videos of Aamir Khan have been shot and used for the so called viral application www.findghajini.com. In this application, the user plays the lead role of movie which is played by actor Aamir Khan and tries to find Ghajini through the clues provided. After the user finds a clue, he/ she is given a hint about where one might find the next one. After one finds all the clues, the user needs to dial a phone number on which one can hear Aamir Khan talking to them.

In other viral app cum website In www.wallofsuspects.com users can upload their own photograph or that of their friends, much like the Aamir Khan’s wall of suspects in the film. Once they have done so, they receive a code which is required to view the entire wall of suspects.

The websites & tools are brought via Hungama, an aggregator, developer and publisher of Indian entertainment content. The makers of Ghajini with Hangama are capitalizing the potential of the web along with Hungama to create maximum visibility for the film

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Funwall.in

Users can also find friends and join to create video groups to connect with people who have similar interests. Users can customize their own favorites and play lists. They can set videos to public or private to share with friends and family, nevertheless as apparent the videos served at even its home page are not filtered for safe viewing, one could easily find the objectionable, adult video content and thats too 8 out of 10 kind of quantity through out the portal which should otherwise ask for some family filter or behind some kind of age verification page.

In a similar fashion to YouTube the site Funwall too have sections such as channels, Community along with friends and games as different to former one. Videos uploaded to portal are user generated though syndicated from one or more videos sites.

Indian online video sharing portals are few and if exist share one or other website model in terms of form of content such as videos along with either forum, networking, blogs or news material etc. but for a purely video driven site, a web startup must consider its usability, user base ethics and sensitive issues such as adult or porn material/ content not served very openly.

I would praise IndianPad.com in this scenario who despite of offering 18+ content, do not reveal it as publicly by default i.e. without any family filter or age verfication.

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