A 50-minute lesson for undergraduate marketing students exploring the concept of Minimum Viable Product (MVP) through the lens of YouTube's history and its first uploaded video.

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A lesson analyzing the transformation of YouTube from a casual video-sharing platform to a professionalized influencer economy, using the first-ever YouTube video as a primary source.

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Students analyze the first YouTube video, 'Me at the zoo', as a primary source to understand the shift to User-Generated Content (UGC) and 2005 culture through a digital archaeology simulation.

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A high school journalism lesson exploring the history of vlogging using the first YouTube video, challenging students to create a concise, unedited 20-second observational video.

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A media studies lesson analyzing the first YouTube video as a historical artifact, exploring the shift to user-generated content and early internet culture.

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A middle school lesson on digital footprints, focusing on the permanence of online content using the first YouTube video 'Me at the zoo' as a case study.

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A media studies lesson exploring how early platform limitations shaped internet culture, anchored by the first YouTube video 'Me at the zoo'.

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A short high school warm-up focused on developing media literacy skills by identifying bias, loaded language, and selective data in articles about climate change.

A sociology and technology lesson analyzing the concept of 'Digital Footprint' and internet permanence through the lens of the first-ever YouTube video, 'Me at the zoo'. Students explore the shift from unscripted early internet content to modern curation and reflect on their own digital legacies.

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A media studies and history lesson exploring the shift from traditional media to user-generated content through the lens of the first YouTube video, 'Me at the zoo'.

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A lesson where high school students analyze the first YouTube video, "Me at the zoo," as a historical primary source to understand the evolution of digital media, authenticity, and the attention economy.

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A lesson where students analyze the first-ever YouTube video to learn about unscripted oral communication and then perform their own 20-second observational vlogs.

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A high school history and media literacy lesson where students evaluate 'Me at the zoo' as a primary source, acting as digital archaeologists from the year 2124 to analyze early 21st-century culture and technology.

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A lesson for Middle School students on digital footprints and online permanence, analyzing the first YouTube video ever uploaded.

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A middle school lesson plan exploring how digital media has evolved from the authentic, unscripted early days of the internet to the highly produced content of today, centered around analyzing the first YouTube video 'Me at the zoo'.

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Students investigate the history of user-generated content by contrasting the first YouTube video with modern production standards.

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A high school Computer Science lesson connecting the history of YouTube's first video to concepts of bandwidth, data compression, and internet infrastructure evolution.

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Students explore the history of media technology and presentation styles by comparing the first YouTube video to modern content, focusing on the concept of User-Generated Content (UGC).

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A lesson regarding the evaluation of primary sources in the digital age, focusing on the first YouTube video.

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A lesson exploring the transformation of media through the history of YouTube, contrasting the simplicity of the first 'User-Generated Content' with modern, high-production digital storytelling. Students will analyze technical shifts and practice scripting for a simpler era.

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