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YouTube has more tools than just uploading and sharing videos. It allows you to record from your webcam, create photo slide shows, stream live through a Google+ hangout, and edit videos just like the video editor in Windows Live MoveMaker. These tools extends the educational value of YouTube beyond just watching video to using it as a tool for the 4 Cs (creativity, communication, collaboration, and critical thinking)

This is a blog recommending the use of Quietube. Quietube is a handy little browser extension that removes all the clutter from YouTube allowing you to view only your selected video. Quietube removes all advertising, sidebar content, comments, and ratings.

SafeShare is a website that takes YouTube videos and gets rid of almost ALL of the advertisements and junk around the main video. Safeshare even removes the ads that are often showed before popular videos. Using it is VERY simple and I really don't know why I did not convert all my videos before now. All you do is copy the YouTube link and paste it into Shafeshare.tv (see image below) Then you are given a new link to use instead of the YouTube link. Save that to your favorites and you are set.

This is great. Will have to check it out.

Pupils from Robin Hood primary school, Birmingham, worked with a film crew from the National College for School Leadership to express their desire to use their favourite technologies for learning in school.

a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.

Books read out loud by famous people. I think this would be a fun website to create with older students reading for the K-1 students.

Edcanvas is a cool web tool that allows teachers to create multimedia rich lessons and share them with their students. These lessons can include YouTube videos, slides, files, text, and images which you can download either from the web or use the ones you have in your computer