Re: UC Berkeley classes on YouTube

["James J. O'Donnell" <provost@georgetown.edu>]

So when I read ten years from now about this cool debate among 
Democratic candidates that featured video questions from goofy 
but serious viewers, including a snowman concerned about global 
warming, and people were watching it on YouTube for weeks 
afterwards:  how will I find it?  Who's looking after the 
snowman?

Jim O'Donnell
Georgetown

On 10/9/07, Ann Okerson <aokerson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jim, it seems to me that preservation of these videos would be up
> to the University of California, yes?
>
> Ann Okerson/Yale library
>
>
> On Friday, 5 October, James O'Donnell wrote:
>
>>Has YouTube said anything about their plans for preservation of
>>the videos they recruit and present?
>>
>>Jim O'Donnell
>>Georgetown
>
> On 10/5/07, Greg Tananbaum <gtananbaum@gmail.com> wrote:
>> UC Berkeley has become the first university to formally offer
>> videos of full course lectures via YouTube.  Two hundred clips,
>> representing eight full classes, have been uploaded so far.
>> According to an article in today's San Francisco Chronicle, the
>> school has equipped twenty classrooms to record lectures and
>> plans to capture about fifty classes each semester, or about
>> three percent of the course catalog.  For more details, read:
>>
>> http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/04/BUJ0SJ9JS.DTL
>>
>> Alas, you can't earn a Cal degree merely by watching YouTube
>> clips - no credits are offered in conjunction with the postings.
>> However, those interested in expanding their intellectual
>> horizons can explore the Cal courses here:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/ucberkeley
>>
>> Best, Greg
>> ______________________
>> Greg Tananbaum
>> (510) 295-7504
>> gtananbaum@gmail.com