YouTube.com/education

- 06 January 2012Smoothwall

YouTube is the home of the weird, wonderful, explicit and outrageous - it’s also a vast repository of brilliant and mind-expanding educational resources. It can also be a bit of a minefield for unwary teachers and those responsible for providing appropriate web content for young students.

Stumbling across the wrong sort of ‘Boobies’ and ‘Great Tits’ when giving a lesson on bird life in the UK would result in some upset young people and parents.

Thankfully the good people at YouTube have created a channel dedicated to education users - properly monitored educational content from reputable sources. There’s a catch though. YouTube is often blocked outright by your organisation's web filtering policies because picking out the right videos is a herculean task. Luckily, YouTube now offer a solution - but you need some clever tricks in your filtering to be able to access it!

With Smoothwall you can safely use your school’s YouTube channel (which contains your own library of pre-checked and authorised content) and safely browse and use entire YouTube/education videos without fear of coming across the wrong sort of ‘bird’. All without having to harass your IT support team to unblock individual videos.

Another nifty Smoothwall feature designed just for educators.

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