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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A reflective workshop for adults exploring the permanence of the internet through the lens of YouTube's first video, 'Me at the zoo,' focusing on digital footprints and guiding children's online presence.

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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 literacy lesson where students analyze the evolution of digital media by comparing the first YouTube video, 'Me at the zoo,' to modern content standards. Students explore concepts of user-generated content, monetization, and the commercialization of attention.

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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 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 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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Students explore the concept of digital primary sources by analyzing the first-ever YouTube video as a historical artifact and creating their own museum-style documentation for contemporary digital media.

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A middle school ELA lesson on improving descriptive language using the 'Me at the zoo' video as a case study for weak vocabulary.

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A lesson exploring the transformation of digital media production through the lens of YouTube's first video, 'Me at the zoo', contrasting early raw footage with modern high-production content.

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

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A lesson for high school Media Studies/History students analyzing the shift from broadcast to social media through the lens of the first YouTube video, 'Me at the zoo'. Students evaluate the impact of User-Generated Content (UGC) and compare early digital media to modern trends.

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A high school media literacy lesson analyzing the first YouTube video, "Me at the zoo," to discuss the shift from broadcast media to user-generated content and the democratization of information.

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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 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 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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A writing and speaking lesson for 4th-6th graders focused on concise communication, using the 'Me at the zoo' video as a model for creating 19-second vlogs.

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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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