I vote Yea, but I see controversy coming. (What else is new?)

If I disagree with the stance of a sifter I would be tempted to say that their post is "antics disguised to be educational." (I would never do that--but you see what I saying.)

(And yes, I see the humor in someone from Idaho saying "stance")

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How many Boise Liberals are there? Do you guys meet for dinner?

>> ^Boise_Lib:

I vote Yea, but I see controversy coming. (What else is new?)
If I disagree with the stance of a sifter I would be tempted to say that their post is "antics disguised to be educational." (I would never do that--but you see what I saying.)
(And yes, I see the humor in someone from Idaho saying "stance")

>> ^dag:

How many Boise Liberals are there? Do you guys meet for dinner?
>> ^Boise_Lib:
I vote Yea, but I see controversy coming. (What else is new?)
If I disagree with the stance of a sifter I would be tempted to say that their post is "antics disguised to be educational." (I would never do that--but you see what I saying.)
(And yes, I see the humor in someone from Idaho saying "stance")



I'm the only one I know of.

Actually I self identify as an Independent Progressive now. The Lib is a hold over from a previous life. I'm a liberal--but not a Liberal (the pussies--heehee).

Teaching will be an interesting channel... Just don't make it blend with the howto channel and we should be good...

Always yes.

Quite related to *talks, but I say live and let live.

How about educational or education?

I tried to use "Education" but it wouldn't let me - it said that one was reserved!

And no, this will NOT be used for how to type videos either.

Here are some examples of the type of stuff that would fit into this channel:

http://videosift.com/video/Let-s-use-video-to-reinvent-education
http://videosift.com/video/Do-Schools-Today-Kill-Creativity-Sir-Ken-Robinson-TED
http://videosift.com/video/Teacher-changing-the-world-one-student-at-a-time

An alternate and maybe better channel name could be *school maybe.

Seems legit to me. Can I put pure math videos in there? Vi Hart and others?

>> ^lucky760:

An alternate and maybe better channel name could be school maybe.


SAT vocab test:

economics : money
automotive : wheels
aeronautics : wings

education : ?

I say based on those past examples, the right name here is *blackboard, not *school.

Naming it *school would be as ridiculous as calling our economics channel market, or our automotive channel street.

Or maybe we should just call it *education, and not make it needlessly obscure...

9 : 5
10 : 6
11 : 5
9 : 5 (or 10 : 5)

This is a website, not an SAT exam. A channel subdomain name should convey simply the general idea and do so succinctly.

If the idea of the channel is to be focused on teachers, students, classrooms, and the educational system, *school is well-suited.

>> ^NetRunner:

>> ^lucky760:
An alternate and maybe better channel name could be school maybe.

SAT vocab test:
economics : money
automotive : wheels
aeronautics : wings
education : ?
I say based on those past examples, the right name here is blackboard, not school.
Naming it school would be as ridiculous as calling our economics channel market, or our automotive channel street.
Or maybe we should just call it education, and not make it needlessly obscure...

>> ^lucky760:

9 : 5
10 : 6
11 : 5
9 : 5 (or 10 : 5)
This is a website, not an SAT exam. A channel subdomain name should simply convey the general idea and do so succinctly.
If the idea of the channel is to be focused on teachers, students, classrooms, and the educational system, school is well-suited.

strlennification! I guess that means channels like Documentaries, Shortfilms, Catsanddogs, Controversy, Conspiracy, all red-headed step children now.

I'm just being cranky about channel names being inconsistent. Calling it "school" is actually a clever choice in keeping with Videosift's tradition. I just think that tradition has led to the channel list becoming quite a mess.

My point isn't to make using channels more like an SAT test, my point was to make it easier for people to categorize videos into channels. Succinctness is as much about clarity as it is about brevity, and the way to bring clarity would be to actually name channels after the category of information they're meant to contain, and not after nouns associated with the category.

People familiar with our site's eccentricities will know that we often name channels that way, but would people unfamiliar with the site intuitively understand that they need to look in the school channel for educational videos like this?

You'd also wind up with random videos that have nothing to do with education going there, like say a video of a school being demolished, or a video of Donald Trump demanding to see Barack Obama's diploma...

I'm just giving my opinion, and I fully confess to being needlessly cranky about it, but it's not like what I'm saying here is crazy talk. The word school is not synonymous with education, and it's not like education is some fancy shmancy 14-syllable word that only eggheaded people like me would understand...

Actually, I feel quite the opposite about using nouns for channel subdomains because of the way they can be integrated as invocations in common language.

"That teacher took that kid to *school!" versus "That teacher just provided that child with some meaningful *education!"

Discussion on the (obvious) channel sloppiness is for another thread, but until we clean things up, I'm all for keeping things consistent and fun.

Voting for this poll ended with the majority of users voting Approve.

nice, good luck with the channel!:)

>> ^lucky760:

Actually, I feel quite the opposite about using nouns for channel subdomains because of the way they can be integrated as invocations in common language.
"That teacher took that kid to school!" versus "That teacher just provided that child with some meaningful education!"
Discussion on the (obvious) channel sloppiness is for another thread, but until we clean things up, I'm all for keeping things consistent and fun.


My main point though is that "school" would be inconsistent, if whimsical.

Most of our channels are named after abstract concepts that don't translate easily into concrete-noun form (Equality, Election, History, Geek, etc.), and a lot of the ones that could be done that way (e.g. Love => Heart, Catsanddogs => Paws) haven't been.

It's just that adding whimsy to a non-whimsical subject seems wrong to me, especially given that the channels are already something of a mess as it is. No point in making it worse.

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I like School.

I like turtles