Finding OVRs
Instructors discover film materials for their classes with varying degrees of success, often relying on serendipity while Internet surfing or recommendations from colleagues and students. When actively seeking videos to match specific teaching needs, most instructors turn to search engines, particularly Google.
However, instructors should also be mindful of the value of YouTube, notwithstanding common criticisms against it [footnote, also include Sciliano piece] The largest video-sharing platform on the web, YouTube hosts an extensive array of educational channels, but several other features likewise facilitate curation. First, YouTube forwards new video to video channel subscribers through its notification function ... location... When users select specific videos, its recommendation algorithm automatically generates lists of suggested content--with the first few pieces often being of higher quality than initially selected videos. YouTube also gives creators the option of arranging content into playlists, video subcategories, which can improve OVR organizational coherence and navigability. A "featured channels" list allows creators to showcase others' video sites thereby potentially fostering networked learning communities. Premium YouTube subscribers additionally have an "Ask" function available, allowing them to harness artificial intelligence to interrogate individual video. Finally, given that managers at many media outlets operating behind paywalls recognize the educational and promotional value of YouTube, maintaining parallel YouTube channels has become common. A prime example of this is The New York Times, through which massive amounts of news footage, opinion-film pieces, and documentaries are freely accessible.
Searching alternative platforms to YouTube can also be fruitful [Vimeo, Daily Motion, etc]. Online curation sites generic to the Internet as a whole can further enhance locating OVRs. Boclips offers educational videos curated.... Video aggregators, such as Digg and Pocket, also collect and categorize video content from across the web. Media-relevant websites and blogs, such as Diggit Magazine, regularly feature high-quality educational videos. Unsurpassed among these in our opinion is Colman's Open Culture. Newsletter subscriptions (e.g., Retro Report) provide periodic email updates on new media. Additionally, exploring award-bestowing sites and their newsletters, such as Peabody Matters, can lead to critically-acclaimed educational content.
In addition to these approaches, we encourage the adoption of RSS as a location strategy. Given that curators typically incorporate those OVRs that are the most instructionally relevant into their RSS pages... automatically notifies subscribers of new content from chosen providers, the need for manual checking is eliminated. This makes RSS a highly efficient method for discovering new videos as they are uploaded to OVRs. [elaborate]
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