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Handy things to know about using YouTube, including showing only part of a video. Consider combining this info with TubePrompter.

Awesome videos

Some very clever and funny history videos, great as a starter. Love the 'This plague is Bubonic B U B O N I C".

Timeless treasures and contemporary presentations from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. As the world's preeminent reservoir of knowledge, we are the steward of millions of recordings dating from the earliest Edison films to the present.

This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. Equally important, it...

See? Think? Wonder?

Around the world in ten days.

The scariest path in the world?This walkway now serves as an aproach to Makinodromo, the famous climbing sector of El Chorro in Spain's Andalucia. And it is the hairiest path. The area of El Chorro situated in the south of Spain is renowned amongst travelers and mountain hikers for its stunning scenery and climbs, yet this is not the main attraction on offer, El Chorro is host to one of the most dangerous walkways in the world, built by workers to transport materials between the Chorro and Gaitanejo Falls   www.youclimb.de

Fantastic video on many levels

A two and a half minute time-lapse video showing the construction of a Boeing aircraft. "Go inside Boeing as the newest Specialty Plane is unveiled!"

Whole community lipsyncing to American Pie

In the project's first position paper, "Developing Minds and Digital Media: Habits of Mind in the YouTube Era" (http://www.pz.harvard.edu/eBookstore/PDFs/GoodWork51.pdf), authors Margaret Weigel and Katie Heikinnen have synthesized the leading theories of cognitive development (Piaget, Vygotsky, Bruner, Erikson), education and media studies (Turkle, Papert, Jenkins), and empirical findings about young people's digital media.