Worth watching
This is a video of Dr Michael Wesch presentation at the Library of Congress. Its long – 55minutes but its brilliant. Instead of making a presentation using a slide tool like keynote, powerpoint or impress he has made a video.
here is the URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU
its also worth visiting his website
August 7th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Couldn’t agree more. Came across it earlier in the week – was it via twitter?- and I am working with it right now to use parts of it in a workshop tomorrow with Cluster Lead Teachers and it will become part of their professional ‘reading’ for this next round. Having Lonely Girl in it helps with our Kiwi audience too
I appreciated some of the comments on YouTube along the lines of “… I thought this was a long video so I would give it 5 minutes to get the idea, but I was quickly hooked and watched the whole thing…”. That was how it was for me too.
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August 11th, 2008 at 9:56 am
What is most memorable about this Video?
The strong statement that what the video makers are looking at is the webcam, and what that webcam represents in terms of a truly global audience available in our own homes.
What are the key points you have learnt from this video?
- That media sharing like youtube is a quickly growing medium
- That entire social phases can be influenced by such action
- That youtube can still be manipulated (e.g. faking, viral marketing, attention seeking etc.)
- That it provides a very large audience for a very low cost
- That it makes it a lot easier to try and get your message across to the world
- That electronic communication is breaking down the walls and barriers between people (the world is flat)
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