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New internet filter to aid educational video production Bloxx Media Filter designed to make YouTube a better educational tool.
A new internet filter has been launched aimed at allowing schools to utilise online educational video productions and other web content.
The Bloxx Media Filter allows teachers to identify useful YouTube videos and assign these to a subject area and age range and submit the clips for approval.
Once approved, students can easily search and view clips which are streamed directly to classroom PCs without related video clips, contextual advertising or user submitted comments being displayed.
Eamonn Doyle, Bloxx chief executive, said social media sites such as YouTube can be hugely valuable educational resource but schools had so far been reluctant to take advantage because of the large amount of inappropriate content available on these sites.
"The Bloxx Media Filter now allows schools to quickly create an approved library of YouTube content that can be used by teachers to reinforce the delivery of the curriculum with rich media that students can relate to," he said.
The government plans to give more children in Britain internet access under its Digital Britain initiative which hopes to bring high speed bradband to 90 per cent of the UK's population.
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