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Adam Sedowsky engineers a viral video

media type="custom" key="6407095" The band "OK Go" dreamed up the idea of a massive Rube Goldberg machine for their next music video -- and Adam Sadowsky's team was charged with building it.

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Vincent Malloy by Tim Burton **
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Vincent Malloy is seven years old. He's always polite and does as he is told. For a boy his age, he's considerate and nice. But he wants to be just like Vincent Price... (Narrated by Vincent Price)  Presto (Doug Sweetland) media type="custom" key="3960841"

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San Francisco mayor, Gavin Newsom, presented the inaugural [|YouTube Visionary Award]to Queen Rania of Jordan. Queen Rania wasn’t able to accept the award in person, so instead she sent a video. Read more about this [|here].
 * Her acceptance speech shows that getting serious about something significant doesn’t preclude a sense of humour. Queen Rania warms up the viewers with humour and ends powerfully with a serious message: that suspicion, intolerance and mistrust are driving us apart. She says she wanted to kickstart a conversation in the world’s largest community. Her motto for the power of YouTube is:**
 * We’re stronger when we listen and smarter when we share.**
 * Queen Rania urges us to use the power of YouTube’s conversation. She admits that it’s not likely to change the world, but it will change some minds.

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Music is the universal language. We share our responses to music with people all over the world.

media type="youtube" key="WIvmE4_KMNw" height="344" width="425" ** An example of how text can become more powerful in film. Simplicity, careful choice of words, sequencing, effect on viewer. How much more effective than traditional linear text.

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Another example of the endless possibilities for creativity with technology. Literacies? The kinds of things that include storytelling, sequencing, playful possibilities, imagination, what-ifs and the like.

media type="youtube" key="ZrDxe9gK8Gk" height="344" width="425"  The 3 minute film cost $57 to make, was shot in New York and Sydney, and won first place at the [|New York Tropfest]. [|Tropfest] is the largest short film festival in the world, with the aim of bringing exposure to talented, young filmmakers from around New York and the world.

Can you imagine the fun and creativity for students with such a project?

media type="youtube" key="1DKm96Ftfko" height="344" width="425" This is an excellent video about Creative Commons and the culture of sharing.

media type="youtube" key="dubA2vhIlrg" height="344" width="425" A powerful video about cyberbullying

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This slideshow about blogging was made by year 7 at Hawkesdale P-12. It explores what's good about blogging, how you can dress up your blog, and how to blog safely.

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Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, spells out 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do. From TED University 2007. This is a good video to spark discussion, especially if you start with a discussion about what they expect the video to be about based on the title.

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When do you write 'its' and when you do you write 'it's'?

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Interesting to spark discussion.

media type="custom" key="4339093" Michael Shermer on strange beliefs (TED talk)