Did You Know? The Viral Video on Education by Karl Fisch

The Did You Know? video originally started out as a PowerPoint presentation by Karl Fisch for a faculty meeting in August 2006 at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado, United States. The presentation "went viral" on the Web in February 2007 and, as of June 2007, had been seen by at least 5 million online viewers. Today the old and new versions of the online presentation have been seen by at least 10 million people, not including the countless others who saw it at conferences, workshops, training institutes, and other venues.

Here is another variation of the video I created by adding a different style of background music:



Some of the data is already outdated such as Myspace now has over 200 million users (as of Sept 2007) and would be the 5th largest nation in the world between Indonesia and Brazil. This just shows the exponential growth of technology.

If you want to dig deeper, here's a link to all the sources in the video. Also here are two more videos created by Anthropology Professor, Michael Wesch, with his class at Kansas State University:

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