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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: 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: HeroismI recently attended the festival screening of my friend, Ellen Spiro’s amazing documentary, “Body of War,” which she shot and directed with Phil Donahue (yes that Phil Donahue). It was…
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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: Chicago SCALE RoundtableTwo weeks ago, we held a summit on the organizing and distribution possibilities of my documentary, SCALE, generously sponsored by a Chicago feminist media and arts organization and attended by…
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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: #1 SCALE screeningOn Thursday, October 4, we had our first work-in-progress screening of SCALE fro a friendly audience at the Claremont Colleges, where I teach. Antonia made it, as did representatives of…
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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…