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Revolutionizing Education...With Weirdos

2012-10-19 · letter vlog · Hank, Derek Muller, Brady Haran, Vi Hart, Henry Reich, Michael Stevens, Destin Sandlin · 3:59 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Internet & YouTube · mode: Personal essay · tags: on location, guest or collab, self promotion, timely hook

At an event for educational online video near YouTube's offices, Hank argues that educational video is a different value proposition from entertainment and could change the world, and introduces fellow educational creators he urges viewers to subscribe to.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Greeting; smoky hotel a short walk from YouTube; attending an event for educational online video and giving a talk

  • ★ Hank says he woke in a hotel room smelling of cigarette smoke and cleaning fluid, chosen because it is a very short walk to YouTube's offices. — 00:00:00 · YouTube
  • ★★ Hank is attending an event for people who make and encourage educational online video, where he was allowed to give a short talk. — 00:00:00 · YouTube

00:00:29 — Toilet paper as innovation in an old industry; Hank's talk: educational video is a different value proposition from entertainment

  • ★ Hank playfully offers something he found in the bathroom, which 'completely made the rolly thing obsolete', as proof that even toilet-paper making still has room for innovation. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:29
  • ★★★ In his talk Hank argues that educational video is a completely different value proposition for its viewer than entertaining video. — 00:00:29 · education
  • ★★★ Hank thinks educational online video has the potential power to change the face of the world. (hedged) — 00:00:58 · education

00:00:58 — Fellow educational creators introduce themselves: Derek Muller, Brady Haran, Vi Hart, Henry Reich, Michael of Vsauce, Destin of Smarter Every Day

  • ★★ Hank says he is happy to do educational video with John and many other great creators some viewers may not know, and shows some of them. — 00:00:58 · John Green
  • ★ Derek Muller explains his channel name Veritasium as 'the element of truth': veritas is the Latin word for truth, plus the traditional '-ium' ending. — 00:00:58
  • ★★ Brady Haran introduces himself as a UK-based video journalist who runs several channels, including Periodic Videos, Numberphile, Sixty Symbols and Deep Sky Videos. — 00:01:27
  • ★★ Destin Sandlin: Destin shows Hank a spring that is stretched and wadded up and then, once heated, recovers its shape ('It's alive!'). (playful) — 00:02:14

00:02:41 — Destin's memory-spring demo; Hank asks viewers to subscribe to the educational channels, Crash Course and SciShow

  • ★★ Hank says Smarter Every Day is going to do a whole video on the memory spring, and he is looking forward to it. — 00:02:41
  • ★★★ Hank asks viewers to subscribe to Smarter Every Day, Vi Hart, Vsauce, Veritasium, MinutePhysics and Brady Haran's channels, and to Crash Course and SciShow. — 00:02:41 · Crash Course, SciShow

00:03:25 — Revolutionizing how and what we teach; thanks to the supporting community; sign-off

  • ★★★ Nothing excites Hank more right now than revolutionizing how and what we teach; he thinks he and John are part of that innovation and lucky to be there. (hedged) — 00:03:25 · education, John Green
  • ★★ Hank says they are even luckier to have a community of people who support that work, and thanks everyone who does. — 00:03:25 · Nerdfighteria

00:03:47 — End-tag banter about channels, looks and brains

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Central: education

Also: People: Brady Haran · Derek Muller · Destin Sandlin · Henry Reich · Michael Stevens · Vi Hart

Projects: Crash Course · SciShow

Organizations: YouTube

Concepts: Latin

Places: San Bruno

Events: YouTube Education Summit

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