Archive for the 'Video' Category

A Vision of Students Today

Published by
Amy
at November 16, 2007 in Education, Technology, Video and Web 2.0. 0 Comments

This short but powerful video creates a dynamic portrait of students today - how they live, learn, and work - and in doing so it points out how the current educational system has failed to respond to these characteristics and the needs which stem from them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

The video was written and produced collaboratively by students as part of a class project and shared online using a Creative Commons license both on the class blog and YouTube. The video has been making its way around the web amassing over 800,000 YouTube views and 5,000 comments since it was posted just over a month ago.

The content of the video is moving on its own but the way that it was made and distributed shows how technology can be used to engage students and leverage both their skills and experience to create a collaborative educational exercise that results in a deeper learning experience.

Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

Published by
Michaela
at August 29, 2007 in Education, Technology, Video and Web 2.0. 0 Comments

During the Web 2.0 session we gave to our study abroad Academic Directors (ADs) a few weeks ago, we began with this great YouTube video by Michael Wesch, a professor at Kansas State University. Even though the video moves quickly, and for many of our ADs English is their second language, the video was well-received and set the presentation off to a positive and fun start. The entire audience was completely engaged in what we had to say, and hopefully a bit of web 2.0 was demystified in the process.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE