web 2.0
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Read More: YouTube Writing
I’ve spent the first half of my sabbatical attempting to “write up” the findings of my course, Learning from YouTube. Given that the heart of the experiment of the course…
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Read More: DigiNative Wanne(May)be(Not)
In Diana Kimball’s recent post on her experience at ROFLCon, about being at a conference on and inhabited by “digital natives” she notes: “But when you’re at a conference about…
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Read More: On “Art of the Videoblog,” by Michael NewmanI just read Zigzagger‘s (check this out, he’s the guy who taught me how to make these very links to other web sites on my blog!) article on “ze frank…
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Read More: YouTube Thoughts apres Console-ing Passions
Just back from the Console-ing Passions conference, where I attended a panel on blogging where people joked that people might blog on the conference and the panel. Well. Melissa Click…
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Read More: Losing Community in the Video Archive: My Final Tour
At last the tours are through! While I found them increasingly tedious, they did prove a useful exercise in that I made some sense of the hundreds of videos my…
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Read More: The Owner/User Dialectic: TOUR #5The user is told she is free, but this is not the case. Nowhere near it. She makes work in forms that best serve the master’s (oops) owner’s needs. Her…
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Read More: Bad Video: From meaning to feeling, YouTube Tour #4
In my Tour #4, The Vernacular, Visual and the Vlog, I propose that there are two dominant forms of video YouTube: the vlog, characterized by its poor quality and vox…
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Read More: TOUR #2, Entertainment: Humor, Spectacle, Self-ReferentialityI posted my second tour today, on entertainment on YouTube. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIaxxxECszE&rel=1] (note the goofy performance: trying to be lively…YouTube entertainment does rely on quality performance) This was the first thing…
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Read More: Beginning Thoughts on the Six Binaries indicated in TOUR #1
Thinking through education on YouTube, after teaching a class using its many resources and even greater limitations, I found that the specificity of the site, and some of the features…
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Read More: YouTube Tour #1: Education
Today, I posted my first “tour” of the work and lessons-learned by the Learning from YouTube class. I will try to post one per week, with accompanying blogs, for the…