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Zoe Glatt

The unanswerable question – what IS ‘educational’?

February 4, 2020

So this one is a big ‘un. What actually is ‘educational’? I’ve been talking about this phd for about a year now, and before that I’ve been talking about educational content on youtube for years. And I’ve been thinking about it in curriculum terms – science, english, maths, humanities etc – and I’ve been thinking […]

Tagged as: Chris Stokel-Walker, Contrapoints, educational youtube, edutube, Kelli's Channel, Miss Kokolib, MonsterThinks, the Guardian, Zoe Glatt

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Why don’t (most) unis recognise their staff’s youtube channels?

January 31, 2020

I was talking to Zoe Glatt, an academic doing her phd on youtubers at LSE, a while ago, and she pointed out that most academics studying youtube don’t actually have a youtube channel. This was a surprise to me, cause I think it’s really valuable to have hands-on experience with the thing I’m studying. And […]

Tagged as: academics on youtube, Amanda Loves To Audit, educational youtube, edutube, scicomm, UNSW, youtube, Zoe Glatt

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Why are we not teaching our teachers how to navigate social media? #AoIR2019

October 1, 2019

So I’m currently at the Association of Internet Researchers 2019 conference up in Brisbane. As part of this I attended a satellite conference – 4rd Annual Young Creative Connected (YCC) Research Network Seminar Where I presented on a panel about Youtube and academics with Zoe Glatt and Kelli McGraw chaired by Jarrod Walczer. (Pic by Zoe Glatt) […]

Tagged as: Alice Elwell, AoIR2019, educational youtube, edutube, Jarrod Walczer, Kelli's Channel, YCCnetwork2019, Zoe Glatt

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Newbie academic conference tips via Twitter

July 18, 2019

So I’ve never been to an academic conference before. Sure, I’ve been to Vidcon a couple of times  and when I was a teen I went to roleplaying conferences, but I’ve never been to an academic conference before. And suddenly, I learned I was presenting out edutube at one, the 4rd Annual Young Creative Connected (YCC) […]

Tagged as: academic conference, Amy T, Dr Tal Fitzpatrick, educational youtube, edutube, Jenny Sinclar, Kelli's Channel, Miss Kokolib, The Association of Internet Researchers annual conference, Young Creative Connected (YCC) Research Network Seminar, Zoe Glatt

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Asking the Big Questions about educational videos inside and outside the classroom

July 3, 2019

So I’m still turning the Big Question around in my brain. Each phd has a Big Question and a methodology to research that Big Question. I think I’ve got the methodology down, but I’m still rubic-cubing the various possible question/s in my head. I have a lot of questions. So my supervisor suggested that I […]

Tagged as: ASAP Science, Crash Course, educational youtube, edutube, edutube phd, formal learning, informal learning, Pedagogy in Public, Public Pedagogy, youtube, Zoe Glatt

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Educational youtube videos – the beginning of the thoughts

May 11, 2019

So I’ve been wondering how to start up this blog again, and how to transition it from it’s old, craft focus to my current focus, which is educational youtube videos, otherwise know as edutube Well, that was easy. So I’ve been making edutube vids for a while now, a few years in fact, and I’ll […]

Tagged as: educational youtube, edutube, Edutube Facebook group, edutube phd, explicit teaching, MonsterThinks, The hummus experiment, Zoe Glatt

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