Searching for videos in YouTube is one of the most addictive computer activities in which I see students engaged--they seem to have direct lines of information to the latest and greatest videos, and word spreads like wildfire whenever there is a some new cool video ("cool" usually meaning funny, outrageous, satirical, etc.) that they all want to see.
We do not have YouTube blocked in our school, even through some other schools do, because even teachers have been using it to incorporate short videos into their online course materials and class presentations. Recently we started to get concerned about whether or not the widespread viewing of videos on YouTube might be slowing down our network due to it taking up an inordinate amount of bandwith, so we experimented with blocking it for an afternoon. Guess what--there was in fact no appreciable change in network traffic or speed. So, we decided to let well enough alone.
Out of curiosity, I searched for Hopkins High School in YouTube and found this video, which I practiced embedding into my blog:
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