Sunday, November 9, 2008

Educational Vs Entertainment videos

It is all in the presentation folks! Any educational video can be engaging and compelling if presented properly, and any entertainment video can bite if the producer of that video is a moron (see 75% of youtube). Kidding aside, Youtube is clearly a forum for intelligent educational videos, and there are plenty of people seeking out this kind of material. My public library is one of the few that I know of where non-fiction books (read that educational) have a higher circulation than fiction (entertainment). The thirst for knowledge and learning is there, and now that the producers of this content are using the tools that allow them to reach the masses, it should be easier to quench.

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