The Facts and Figures on YouTube in 2013 – Infographic

Online video has gone from zero to a staggering 800 million monthly visitors and 4 billion hours of video viewed per month. And that is just YouTube! Every second there are 46,296 YouTube videos being viewed all around the world. In just 8 years it has transformed the web from mono media to multimedia. Videos [...]

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Flattening the Classroom Walls with Social Media

My sixth grade students have been learning about advanced reading strategies by composing their own interactive eBook about reading instruction. “It would be nice to talk about what we have been finding with an actual author” one of my students mused. “Great idea!” I replied. I handed my iPhone over to allow this ambitious young [...]

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10 Things You May Not Know About YouTube

In my last post I mentioned that the social media ‘verse is full of some best kept secrets. YouTube is one of them. This Time cover from a couple of years ago (with the shiny mirrored screen) was prescient, but not quite enough… I’d cross that ‘You’ out and say ‘Us’. Hasn’t it felt that [...]

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