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It is hard to visit Scripps College's home page without noticing the college's engagement with online social media: a feature on the DCC's YouTube channel and Follow us online! links to Scripps on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr.

YouTube /Online video

Founded 5 years ago on Valentine's Day to "create a place where anyone with a video camera and an Internet connection could share a story with the world," YouTube justifiably calls itself "the most popular online video community." The site allows people to share originally-created videos across the Internet through websites, email, blogs, and mobile devices. Hundreds of millions of videos are viewed each day on YouTube and hundreds of thousands of videos are added each day to YouTube - at the rate of 20 hours of video per minute.

Scripps College on YouTube

The Scripps home page features the DCC Leadership for Real Change Video Project, video responses by Scripps students, faculty and staff to a 2/3/10 speech on campus by former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich on the topic "Effective Leadership for Real Change." The videos are stored on YouTube and can be shared easily:

• on YouTube > scrippsvoice's YouTube channel
• on a website > Scripps website info
  
• on a blog > this blog, for example
• via email by sending any of the above links in a message

Scripps  YouTube Channel

Features 5 commencement videos (2007-2009), 5 videos about the CORE curriculum, an MTV news segment on the Clinton Global Initiative, and an 8-minute History of Scripps College

Other Scripps videos

• Professors Boucquey and Haskell's French Theater Class
  
• Mindfulness in the Brain (from USC with Professor Michael Spezio)
  
• Intermediate video production assignments- by dormz and Gossip Girl
• Videos for a psychology class
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0kZ7D9XpB4
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4YADc7whmw
• Mozart: Piano Trio in G, K.564; Adante
  
• Choreography/dance filmed at Scripps
  A walk through Leaves of Grass 
• IT-FITS - Intro to Podcasting
  

Search for "Scripps College" on YouTube to find videos on the Scripps Academy, live concerts @ Motley Coffeehouse, college traditions: Scripps College, the 2007 Ceramics exhibit, a music ensemble, an unofficial campus tour by a Scripps student, and more.

How to use video to facilitate teaching & learning

• Student assignments ~ Video offers a variety of digital story-telling possibilities. In addition to filming their own videos, students can use the free movies and music in the Internet Archives and other online resources to produce original video assignments. For example, this copyright-free Internet Archives footage is the basis for the Eleanor Roosevelt YouTube video below
• Share relevant online videos in class and/or as Resource links in Sakai course sites. Search YouTube for videos like this 1933 footage of Eleanor Roosevelt speaking in Chicago 
• A much smaller set of resources than the main YouTube site, YouTube EDU offers videos from higher ed that can be integrated into the curriculum. These videos range from lectures to sports updates. Participating universities include Stanford, Cambridge, Harvard, UCLA, MIT, Tulane, and others. Videos are organized by discipline

Further reading

• "More Video Wanted -- If They Can Get It" (Wired Campus, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 12, 2009)
• Video Use and Higher Education: Options for the Future

Further help
Scripps faculty who need instructional technology assistance should contact IT-FITS. For more information, please watch our YouTube video.