Did You Know? 3.0

Did You Know? is making the rounds again, this time in an official 3.0 release.

The Story Behind the Video

In June 2006, Karl Fisch, the Director of Technology at Arapahoe High School in the Denver suburb of Littleton, Colorado, created a PowerPoint presentation called “Did You Know?” for his beginning of the semester faculty meeting. The presentation made an impression, and so he uploaded the files to his blog, to share it with others. After being picked up by the social-bookmarking website, delicious, the presentation became a viral meme that spread rapidly around the web. Fisch’s presentation was later uploaded to the video website YouTube (“Did You Know? 1.0”). Taking on a life of its own, it inspired many unofficial variations. The following year, with Karl’s permission, the info-graphic group, XPLANE, together with Scott McLeod, Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Iowa State University, created an updated version of the presentation, with new graphics. This video, also available on YouTube, was dubbed “Did You Know? 2.0”, and brought the presentation to an even larger audience. In 2008, Globalization & The Information Age revised the data for “Did You Know? 3.0”. This version was picked up by Sony BMG for their annual executive meeting, held this past October in Rome. The various versions have been translated into many languages and viewed now by millions of people. The 3.0 version in English is shown above.

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