Students act as digital archaeologists to analyze 'Me at the zoo,' the first YouTube video, as a primary historical source, exploring how digital artifacts reflect their era and influence the global economy.

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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 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 for High School Media/Journalism students exploring the shift from raw, unedited vlogs to highly curated performative content on social media.

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A Kindergarten to 2nd Grade lesson where students practice observation and descriptive language by watching the first-ever YouTube video and drawing an elephant.

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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 media literacy lesson contrasting early user-generated content with modern standards, anchored by the first ever YouTube video.

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A lesson on the historical significance of digital primary sources, focusing on the democratization of media through the lens of the first YouTube video.

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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 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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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 Kindergarten to 2nd-grade lesson where students observe elephants, learn about their trunks, and practice observation skills using the historic 'Me at the zoo' video.

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A middle school ELA/Speech lesson focused on the difference between impromptu and scripted speaking, using the first YouTube video 'Me at the zoo' as a case study. Students analyze filler words and practice rewriting content for better delivery.

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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 journalism lesson focused on concise storytelling and on-camera presence using a 19-second video constraint inspired by the first YouTube video.

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A 45-minute lesson for business and technology students exploring the concept of Minimum Viable Product (MVP) through the analysis of YouTube's first video and a hands-on app design activity.

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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 media literacy and research skills lesson for grades 3-5 where students verify claims from the first YouTube video, "Me at the zoo," using secondary sources.

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A lesson on analyzing early digital media as primary historical sources, focusing on the first YouTube video 'Me at the zoo'.

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A lesson exploring the psychological shift in social media from documenting the world to documenting the self, anchoring on the first YouTube video from 2005.

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