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≡ Category: YouTube | ≅ Leave a Comment
Last week, Alexandra Juhasz contributed a guest piece reviewing her experimental efforts to make YouTube an effective teaching tool. And it didn’t take long for the web to take notice. Soon after we posted her review, The Wired Campus (Chronicle of Higher Education) took an angle on the piece. Next, the venerable Ars Technica used [...]
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Today, we have a guest feature by Alexandra Juhasz, Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College, in Claremont, CA. This piece consolidates lengthier blog entries about a course she ran on YouTube, called “Learning from YouTube,” in Fall 2007. The whole goal was to better understand this new media/cultural phenomenon, and how it [...]
≡ Category: Media, YouTube | ≅ 1 Comment
It’s perhaps a stretch to call this a piece of “open culture,” except that the footage, using time-lapsed video to show a man stuck in an elevator for 41 hours, accompanies a piece printed in the latest edition of The New Yorker — Up and Then Down: The Lives of Elevators.
Then, there’s this noteworthy fact: [...]
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A merry, musical St. Pat’s greeting to you from your Irish-American correspondent, presented by his three favorite muppets:
via BoingBoing
≡ Category: YouTube | ≅ 2 Comments
Smart video collections keep appearing on YouTube. But completely antithetical to the ethos of its parent company (Google), YouTube unfortunately makes these collections difficult to find. So we’ve decided to do the job for them. The videos come from media outlets, cultural institutions, universities and non-profits. There are about 55 collections in total, and the [...]
≡ Category: Politics, Video - Politics/Society, YouTube | ≅ Leave a Comment
If you’re a resident of a Super Tuesday state, we hope you can find some time to pull the lever tomorrow. Also, we hope you’ll forgive (at least) one more political post before Super Tuesday. Whatever your political affiliations, the video below is a compelling example of new media at work. According to the New [...]
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Since October, universities have been getting busy and setting up shop on YouTube, enough so that it seemed worth putting together a collection of what’s out there. As you’ll see, universities aren’t always using YouTube to distribute educational content to the outer world. It’s sometimes about that. But it’s also often about “selling” the university [...]
