YouTube
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Read More: Reflections on Building TOUR #1
As I built the fist tour, on education, I was working from an outline I had created for a talk (which will, in fact, be the tour) that I am…
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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…
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Read More: YouTube, Popularity, Inanity, Fun!
So, after the class decided to study “popularity” on YouTube–my students making an end-run on my best intentions for the course (which were to hi-jack YouTube to make it work…
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Read More: Learning from Learning from YouTube mid-wayMid-way through the semester, and I’m pleased to report how much we’ve actually learned, albeit experientially, through doing (and not doing) while stuck in all that is powerful and inane…
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Read More: On YouTubeWe held our first class on-line, off-classroom, on YouTube, on Tuesday. What a failure! And it’s YouTube’s fault… The comments function on the site is neither real-time or synchronous (like…
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Read More: Slogan Ten
“The boundaries between the subject, if not the body, and the ‘rest of the world’ are undergoing a radical refiguration, brought about in part through the mediation of technology. ”…
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Read More: Slogan Nine
“The more we assert our own identities as historically marginalized groups, the more we expose the tyranny of a so-called center.” Pratibha Parmar [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNh4kdSsBoY&rel=1] YouTube serves the de-centering mandate of…
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Read More: Slogan Eight
“What is in question is not the expression of some lost origin or some uncontaminated essence in black film-language but the adoption of a critical voice that promotes consciousness of…
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Read More: FOX it is and FOX is itI went to bed last night exhausted, relieved and resolute. I had survived one week in the media limelight and it was over, ending on a mid-note with my mediocre…
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Read More: Slogan Seven“By empowering ordinary people to speak as experts, they question a basic assumption of dominant ideology, that only those already in power, those who have a stake in defending the…