A Call to News Publishers: How to Share Your Video

Posted by Olivia Ma, YouTube News Manager

We're always looking for ways to enhance the way people consume the news, and we have some improvements planned over the next few months. To get things started, Google News and YouTube are teaming up to help news publishers build a bigger audience for their video content.

Today we are inviting any professional news outlet that is already included as one of the 25,000+ sources in Google News to become an official partner on YouTube and more easily share your news videos on both YouTube and Google News. Not already included in Google News? Just submit your site here for review.

Here are some of the benefits for News publishers who join the YouTube Partner Program:

• Featured Premium Placement. YouTube news partners receive featured placement on the YouTube news page, youtube.com/news, where we feature news videos from partners related to the top news stories on Google News. In addition, if you allow your videos to be embedded, they'll be eligible to appear on Google News, which means additional exposure to all Google News users.

• Cut Costs, Generate Revenue. YouTube offers free hosting for all of your video content and allows you to embed your videos anywhere on the web for free. And as an official YouTube partner, you're eligible to participate in an advertising revenue share program.

• Viewership Analysis. Learn more about the people viewing and interacting with your videos. Use YouTube's Insight tool to easily discover troves of useful demographic information and understand what parts of your videos people liked or didn't like. Geographic information provided can help you focus your marketing efforts.
  

• Wider Audience. YouTube and Google News have millions of visitors every day searching for the latest news and information. Raise awareness around your brand and reach new audiences by making your video content available on YouTube and Google News. As a YouTube partner, you can maintain your brand's look-and-feel with your own customized YouTube channel, and you can also drive traffic back to your own website.
  

• Community. At its core, YouTube is a rich social environment that includes thousands of micro-communities. Build one around your content by encouraging people to interact through comments and video responses. Take advantage of YouTube as a social platform.

To get started, apply to the YouTube Partner Program. Don't forget to include the website of your news organization in the "Company Web Site" field on your application form -- this is critical to having your application approved. If you don't already have a YouTube account, make sure to use an email address with the same domain as your website (e.g. johndoe@newswebsite.com) when registering.

Once your application has been reviewed, you will receive an email confirming whether you are included in the YouTube Partner Program. If you are included, you will have the option to participate in revenue sharing and customize your branded channel.

The Google News team will do a separate review and follow-up about including your videos in Google News.

For more details on becoming a YouTube partner, please visit our Partner Benefits page. For a more in-depth explanation of submitting your video content for inclusion on Google News, take a look at our Help Center article: Video and other multimedia content. Please submit any questions through our Help Center.

Knit One , Purl One-Knitting Revival at Addington

The new Addington Knitters meet every Friday in Miss Blackburn's classroom where they are learning all sorts of knitting, including finger knitting, French knitting and crocheting. 

Miss Blackburn got her husband to put nails into wooden blocks so that the children could learn French Knitting. She says the children have been working extremely hard and all of them seem to enjoy the knitting.

Many of the children take their knitting home and have inspired other family members to take up knitting. At playtime and lunch times you can see children knitting around the school.

The All Blacks Take on Conductive Education

On Thursday, Wayne Smith (the “backs” coach of the All Blacks), Bryn Evans and Neemia Tialata (current All Blacks) came to visit the Pre -School and Primary School Conductive Education children  at Addington.

We asked Wayne Smith if he knew about Conductive Education and he said he had visited lots of times and he thought it was fantastic because it teaches children every day skills. 

It was Bryn and Neemia’s first visit and they were both very excited.

After introducing themselves, the men met all the children and gave them a poster each. Then we all went outside for a game of “tug -of-war” . Conductive Ed verses the All Blacks!!! Conductive Ed WON!!!!! 

Next Bryn and Neemia practised  rugby line outs and scrums with the children. Brittany from our school caught the ball in the line out. Go Brittany!!

Then we asked Bryn and Neemia about being an All Black and they told us that they both get nervous before a game, but that was a good thing. They had both had serious injuries including Bryn’s ankle and Neemia’s problem with his knee and ear. For them, being part of a team was the best thing about being an All Black, especially hanging out with their mates.  

The afternoon was lots of fun and we all got a chocolate frog at the end.

Cuts to Funding Put Conductive Education Under Threat

Funding cuts recently announced in the Budget could have devastating affects on our Conductive Education Unit. Cuts have been made in the money given to our school as part of our therapy entitlement. It is from this funding that we are able to pay our two wonderful conductors.

Our principal Trudy Heath has recently travelled to Wellington to put our case for continuing the present funding for our Conductive Education Unit. The Ministry is keen for the Addington Conductive Education Unit to continue however, without the therapy entitlement, the whole programme is currently under threat.

Search by Author on Google News

Posted by Nemanja Petrovic, Research Engineer

The Google News home page is a good place to go to find headlines from publications around the world. But what if you're interested in the work of a specific journalist in addition to perspectives from different publications? Last Thursday, we launched a feature that highlights the contributions of journalists everywhere by allowing you to find more articles by individual reporters.

If you spot an article by a specific journalist, you can click their name to bring up other articles they've written:



You can also search for articles by a specific journalist under Advanced Search or by searching their name after "author:" in the Google News search box. For example, this feature allows you to follow the most recent stories by your favorite columnists or local journalists. Here I searched for content by Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Joel Connelly:



As with any search on Google News, you can sign up to get the latest results through an RSS feed or email alerts.

We're constantly working to increase the ways in which you can interact with the news, and we hope you'll like the new ability to search by author. With over 25,000 news sources crawled on Google News, we value the diversity of perspectives on the news, but there's also something to be said for being able to find and follow the voices of the journalists you like best!

New Pages for Addington Citizen Passports

At today's senior assembly, four children were awarded  Addington Article Reporter pages for their Citizen Passports. These children have had articles published on the school blog, and are now official Addington Article Reporters. Melissa, Damon, Bayleigh and Zane received their pages from Ms Heath. 

Addington Passports recognise children's achievements towards their citizenship at our school. This begins as soon as they start  within the Junior school, and continues throughout their time at Addington. Other awards include, learning milestones, achievements within various school activities, both  sporting and cultural, and leadership roles within our school.

 By the time children leave Addington School at the end of year six, they will have amassed a wonderful collection of pages within their passports reflecting their achievements during their time with us.

Also receiving an award today was Khale for his amazing work as our official "Wet Grass Manager".

Walking School Bus

Addington School has a new school bus. A Walking School Bus!

Every Wednesday morning at 8am children from Addington School are meeting at three different places around the Addington area and walking together to school. The PTA have organised this activity. The children wear reflective vests and walk in lines to school. During their walk they sing, chat and get to meet other children from different classes. 

A-Tunes save best till last

On June 16^th 2009 the Addington A-Tunes performed a beautiful song, ‘Welcome Home’ by Dave Dobbin.

The A-Tunes have been practising every week for the past two terms. The children have all made a huge commitment and showed a great passion for singing.

Every member of the Addington A-Tunes, should be very proud of their performance. Their efforts were outstanding and have been acknowledged by other schools as the standout performance of the night. They received the loudest applause and a standing ovation. Ka pai A-Tunes!

Junior Literacy Boost Celebration

On Wednesday the Literacy Boost Programme invited  parents along to a celebration of their children's learning. Twenty three children had been involved in the programme which ran for 10 weeks, and was aimed at boosting letter knowledge and letter sounds. The children met three times a week for 45 minutes each session to learn and practise a variety of skills.

At the celebration the children displayed these skills to the many parents who attended. Each child was rewarded with a certificate of congratulations which was presented by Ms Meachen. The celebrations were finished off with fruit kebabs for the children and tea and coffee for the adults.

Cook up at Conductive Education

It has been a busy week in conductive education as usual.  We had a great time on Monday when we made potato paprika a Hungarian dish.  The children chopped the onions, peeled the potatoes and cut up the sausages.  They really enjoyed stirring up the stew but most of all they enjoyed eating it!!

The Green Team Trip to the Strickland St Gardens for World Environment Day.

On Friday afternoon the “Green Team” walked down to the Community Gardens on Strickland St to find out some tips for our new school vegetable gardens, and to help celebrate Environment day.

The people who work there, told us that seeds need to be sown at twice their size into the soil, and that we could sow broad beans and sweetpeas in our new school plots.

We looked at their composting heaps and the size of their vegetable beds. We have started our own compost heaps at school, and collect foodscraps from the classrooms and lunch area. Mr Sinclair, our caretaker, puts the garden waste on the heaps too. In the spring we want to put our new compost onto the gardens to help our vegetables grow.

At the community gardens we helped plant parsley into pots and then painted the pots to take home.

We made coloured hand prints on a wall to celebrate Environment Day.

We had a busy afternoon, and even tried some rhubarb and apple muffins, and parsley pesto. They were yum!!

We are all looking forward to planting in our own school vegetable plots when they are made over the next few weeks.

Conductive Education Awareness Week

Last week was Conductive Education Awareness and our troops were very busy visiting malls to spread the word about Conductive Education. On Tuesday the whole school was involved in a fun and games session organised for the morning. During this session Wayne Smith assistant All Black coach who is the Patron for Conductive Education visited us.

On Thursday Room 5 held an open day. It was attended by large number of people who dropped in to see the Conductive Education programme in action.