In an interesting, self-reflexive irony, an online lecture at http://youtube.com/watch?v=D8FxWN87SPg has the professor commenting on the students' poor performance on an exam (average grade appears to be about 45%!) and suggests that one problem may be that students are skipping lecture and relying on the podcast. As he comments: "You can't beat the live performance." -------------- UC Berkeley first to post full lectures to YouTube | Tech news blog - CNET News.com <http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9790452-7.html> YouTube is now an important teaching tool at UC Berkeley. The school announced on Wednesday that it has begun posting entire course lectures on the Web's No.1 video-sharing site. Berkeley officials claimed in a statement that the university is the first to make full course lectures available on YouTube. The school said that over 300 hours of videotaped courses will be available at youtube.com/ucberkeley. Berkeley said it will continue to expand the offering. The topics of study found on YouTube included chemistry, physics, biology and even a lecture on search-engine technology given in 2005 by Google cofounder Sergey Brin. "UC Berkeley on YouTube will provide a public window into university life, academics, events and athletics, which will build on our rich tradition of open educational content for the larger community," said Christina Maslach, UC Berkeley's vice provost for undergraduate education in a statement. ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org