Thanks for your comment David, I had not really considered the issue of ‘public v private’ as other than a binary. I think you are right in that it can be more complex and subtle, and therefor it should form an important part in the discourse on planning future digital learning systems. I think where strategies for innovation in online learning often fall down is they are founded on creating ‘better’ versions of what exists, (together with any cultural baggage accumulated on the way), rather than exploiting the affordances of new digital technologies. See Henry Ford's faster horses.....

Thanks for highlighting this important issue Simon which will be of great interest to teachers. A number of rights holders, (music), have reached an agreement with Google where they will not issue a take down notice if either; Google place an ad on the page - and/or place a pop up link to the music in the video or page. Whilst this may not be a problem for many unloaders, having visited your channel I can understand why it is not a suitable solution for you. Indeed the only 2 notices I received where when I used music from iTunes themes, (Apple are not very up front about this). I think the real problem here is Copyright that is not suitable for education in the digital age - you mention NEN AudioNetworks - their licence states "can't be performed or distributed outside school or college or on the WWW without additional licences," which you have to buy; this is fair enough but I suspect not all users will be aware of these T&Cs. I would think the most common use of downloaded music is to add to user-generated video - most of which will be put online. The best solution at the moment is to use CC licensed music, and http://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos is a good place to start. Finally congratulations on your excellent School channel with a really innovative use of playlists that shows the demonstrates the potential of the educational use of video.

Good point about web access David - and other video platforms such as blip and Vimeo also have some excellent videos educators can use.

Thanks for comment Kevin, but if you do a twitter search for YouTube for Schools you will find that on the whole the responses are very uncritical and most commentators don't seem to get the subtle nuances of this filtered service. There could be several reasons; 1) (many) Schools have been deprived of YouTube for so long anything is better than nothing. 2) Googles promotion of the service has been excellent 3) Because it's Google.... it must be good!

José I think that could certainly be the case...but then.. there is a school of thought learning should not be fun ; )

Exactly Daniel, I think YouTube for Schools could easily end up as a video text book. Besides... why this continual harping on about video distractions such as cats and music.... it is very very arrogant to assert they have no educational value : )

Thanks for your comment and I agree with you. I am pleased you pointed out the value of YouTube for pastoral and personal development. I wonder how much of Google's educational content would fit that bill? Have you had a look at TrueTube http://www.truetube.co.uk/ As you say anything to allow video to be used in schools is a priority.

Thanks for that Stephanie; if that is the case it is a rather misleading device, also seems strange a photostream owner is still uploading images using CC licences? Several new ones have appeared since I wrote the post.

Thanks for comments Carl, I agree with your point about the alternative to All Rights. Mind you, if that were the case photographers might be better selling directly, so not in Getty's interests. Is there a case for photographers who wish to flag some of their images for sale, directly, and make them searchable in the Flickr database?

Couple of thoughts Doug; firstly the accepted meaning and use of the word 'literacy' may be changing over time, words do. 'Visual literacy' in the context of art, design and psychology for many decades now; so why not trans? in the context of changing patterns of social behaviours and learning associated with new media and technology. Secondly I think spending too much time looking for a definition of something that is so multi-layered and multifaceted, could be a distraction.

Thanks Gordon, happy to discuss any time, and hopefully in person at the Scottish Learning Festival in September.

All good points John, just to pick up on a couple I think you may be right about the Web2rights materials, they were designed for FE/HE, it should be possible to develop a similar resource adapted for schools. Similarly we are currently working on a 'schools' version of the learnign designs we created for Newsfilm Online. Hoping to have something to show at Scottish Learning Festival.

Thanks Bill. The message I pick up from from your comments is; the issue is open and closed minds rather than tech. What the tech does is make us much more aware that this schism exists in education, and that it needs to be dealt with.