Hulu is a Web video service from NBC Universal and Fox Entertainment Group everything on Hulu comes from content providers, not users (e.g. YouTube). Hulu allows viewers to watch full-length movies, documentaries, and t.v. shows with limited commercial interruption. I had always used and viewed Hulu.com as a "backup dvr" but once I started to look at it as an educational website or tool the possiblities began to overwhelm me.
The fact that content on Hulu is set to expire after a certain amount of time seemed like a downside to me until I realized it meant content would always be relatively update or at least be the most recent pro/con argument for content in documentaries or t.v. specials such as 20/20, ID Investigates, etc.
I would use Hulu.com in my classroom to show students videos relevant to course content; interviews, theatre productions, feature length films, documentaries, etc. My only misgiving with Hulu.com is the "search" its very broad and there is no advance search criteria therefore you have to browse through sometimes several pages of video content.
For brief description of Hulu see: https://elearn.apsu.edu/d2l/lms/content/viewer/main_frame.d2l?ou=2989284&tId=19309363
Hulu.com, documentaries, key search: Literature, Using Literature to Teach Reading: http://www.ehow.com/video_4790936_using-literature-teach-reading.html
This is an example of a documentary link I may post on an educational blog that I use to communicate with parents and guardians of students. Like one of the key ideas of Web 2.0 I also believe that learning can and should continue outside of the classroom; that means parents and guardians (and they thought they wouldn't have homework too!) need to be engaged in their children's learning process.
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