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wb18 1/26/2010 21:18:01

General Session - Conference Presentation Only (no formal paper)

//Hery The, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, hery@hawaii.edu//
 * History Indonesia on YouTube**

Many videos about Indonesia’s history were uploaded by laymen to YouTube, one of the attractive Web 2.0 technologies for today’s young learner. Utilizing the YouTube attraction to students, history teachers in Indonesia can explore many videos that are appropriate to a school’s curriculum and bring them into class to support instruction. With accurate analysis of those videos, teachers can avoid bringing improper lesson material into their classes, and on the another hand they can utilize those videos to motivate students to learn.

The purpose of this presentation is to show the benefit of content analysis of YouTube videos related to history lessons in Indonesia. The contents of YouTube that are being analyzed are the video rating, number of visits, number of comments and material in the comments. As a result of the analysis, a school will have: (1) A list of sample videos that are appropriate for history teachers to use as instructional media. (2) A model and criteria for teachers to do analysis of YouTube videos as learning resources. (3) A situation where teachers can engage students to participate in giving quality comments and virality to the videos they watched and used.

All Audiences YouTube, Video, Instructional Media