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Google gets video
GOOGLE IS INTRODUCING video into its Google Apps product. The big idea is that companies will use it to help with training and internal communication.
According to CNET News, the search giant has tailored some of the technology developed by Youtube for corporate clients. It is part of Google's bid to replace traditional office software with so-called Cloud Computing services. Google Video for Business enables employees to upload and share clips with the same ease as posting a clip to Youtube.
Matt Glotzbach, Google's product director, calls it 'user-generated video for businesses'. One feature is the Scene Browser, which presents a series of thumbnails that a user can click on to locate a specific segment within a video.
Administrators are able to track usage and employees can leave comments, insert tags, and embed a video into any Web page.
The service will be wrapped inside the Google Apps Premier Edition which costs $50 a year per user. µ
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Video great teachers for every lesson, then play that in the classrooms.

Sack the worst 10-20% of teachers, or make them just watch the videos and test them. If they pass then they can assist the kids who have questions after watching the videos.

Might be a way of saving money and standardising education ;-))

All we would need is CCTV and wardens to make sure students behaved. Maybe we could also use eyeball scanning techniques to make sure they were looking at the screen for at least 95% of the time, or they get an electric shock/detention etc.

I bet there is a government that will go for this, soon.

Think of the scope:
1 - savings due to all the teacher sackings,
2- the standardising of the education for all kids,
3 - no need to move to a better school catchment area,
4 - Backhanders from the IT firm who get the contract or directorships.

If you could get English as the standardised language across Europe then these videos could be piped into every classroom in UK, Europe, USA, Australia, Canada (make the french speakers conform), India, etc etc.