This morning, at 9AM (UTC+8), I configured my Mac to stream audio from Safari to the speakers outside of my room, via AirFoil. I then tuned in to YouTube Live's launch concert in San Francisco.
With an estimated concurrent viewers of 700,000, this new feature from YouTube made it an even stronger contender in toppling the media conglomerate with user-generated content! Imagine, news coming in from people who are recording and/or streaming from the actual event site even before the news crew arrives or even get different views from different people instead of a single view that is often filtered (censored) by the editors -- news in its raw form!
However, I see this in a different view - as an educator. If YouTube Live evolves into a video-conferencing platform, which is not far from what the infrastructure can do, with multiple participants as well as a way to have it stream publicly or otherwise - then universities will definitely take on this as a way of delivering lectures to far more students than what it can currently reach.
I just cannot stop imagining what this new platform can do for education. I wish that someone from Google is looking at it from the point of view of education as well. :D
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