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This posting refers to the article entitled ‘Breaking the YouTube blockade’ by Jamie McKenzie.
Check it out as it has some really good information on the legalistic side to using YOUTUBE in the classroom.

In this journal article, the author looks at both the pros and cons to using YOUTUBE within the classroom. Most schools tend to block the use of YOUTUBE on school systems, as it slows down the network and may provide easy access to “objectional material”. However, if a teacher were to download specific videos and vodcasts prior to lessons, not only will the burden on the schools network improve, so will the monitoring of explicit material improve. By using YOUTUBE and TEACHERTUBE students can be immersed in technology and be introduced to a world of information and opinions held by other people which are being delivered in creative ways. Once this world has been introduced to students, teaching may move on to students creating their own vodcasts and publishing them onto blogs or even onto the school website.