UNBLOCK "YOUTUBE.COM"
Directorate for ICT Support (DICTS), Makerere University has a restriction blocking students from accessing various sites over the internet including www.youtube.com. Makerere University has occassionally gotten grants from foreign support especially from the New York-based Rockefeller Foundation to boost the quality of its Internet service under VSAT technology. - See more at: http://www.balancingact-africa.com/news/en/issue-n...
Using video to promote educational purposes is not new, and the features provided by YouTube have excited many practitioners in education. YouTube has many official channels of universities and colleges around the world, which regularly upload latest videos of lectures and conferences and also classes online. Besides this, many other social media groups, news outlets and activists have their own channels from where they have formed a connection with their audience members and reach out to them, but this has been ignored by those who suggested that YouTube be BLOCKED.
YouTube’s integration with Google, means that content uploaded to the site is featured in most web searches and is integrated with other Google tools (e.g. Google+ Hangouts). The service has been adopted as the de facto video sharing site for social networking, business, government and education throughout most of the developed world. Notable YouTube channels in the UK include the British monarchy, Parliament and the BBC, as well as many educational institutions, including The Open University, the University of Edinburgh and Cambridge University. There are also numerous education channels, include BFI Films, the Khan Academy, The Periodic Table of Videos and Jisc.
Makerere University has many students in various fields of study to whom youtube services are very important such as those doing Computer Science, Engineering, Architecture, Agriculture, Medicine and those in Humanities and Social Sciences among others. We Hereby request that the value of YouTube as an educational tool to the students be recognized for its potential and consequently be UNBLOCKED.
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