Comments on: More on Learning from YouTube

By: Lisa Campbell

Lisa Campbell — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:25:46 +0000

I wouldn’t worry too much about what they think. Your class sounds like an amazing concept, and I am jealous that I don’t have it in my own learning institution. I am also working with ideas of new media and knowledge production, looking at how youth are using video mashups to talk back to the mainstream media. They probably just feel threatened.

By: Chuck Tryon

Chuck Tryon — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:03:45 +0000

Oops, I meant to link to my reaction to the public reactions to my blogging class. I think that what makes this course so striking (and I think it’s why there was so much curiosity about my use of blogs) is the way that it blurs the classroom space. While watching the intro video, I was intrigued by Alex’s comments about inviting others to participate in the exchanges taking place “in” (or maybe around?) the course on YouTube and the democratization of the classroom that represents.

By: Chuck Tryon

Chuck Tryon — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:56:39 +0000

I had a similar experience, on a much, much smaller scale, when my freshman composition class got linked by a bunch of A-list blogs. Luckily I never had to deal with the sound bite logic of radio interviews, but I certainly found it challenging to convey the complexity of studying blogs, even to people who were bloggers.

The YouTube course sounds really interesting to me. I’ve currently assigned my students a related assignment on doing a rhetorical analysis of a YouTube video from the presidential campaign, so I’ll have to introduce them to your class so that they’ll know other students are doing similarly interesting work.

By: Alex Juhasz

Alex Juhasz — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 05:42:18 +0000

I’ve been getting some good advise from friends about this strange moment, and one colleague, Eve Oishi, reminded me that we often make the choice to be scholars and teachers just because we need room and time, research and debate, to do our work: to think and talk, let things develop, play out, link back, get more complicated. The three minute radio interviews have been the hardest for me because I find I need time to settle into myself, and let my analysis flow, but when it’s really quick, the sound bites don’t come and I lose focus. My ideas could probably be summed up in a phrase but I don’t want them to. I’ve been writing and thinking a great deal about slogans lately (see my blog: sorry don’t know how to link here! aljean.wordpress), and I know it’s depth I seek and YouTube withholds: I want to explain and to consider not to sell. For this reason, I might miss this moment, but so be it.