Ok…so this one treads pretty close to home, for a number of reasons. (Read between the lines if you must.) But I think it’s worth sharing anyway. Yet another example of what can happen when you put (fairly) easy publishing tools in the hands of the masses (with access). View and discuss.
And then there is this. Sort of ironic, don’t you think? From the people who brought you DOPA, you have videos about dope … uh … on YouTube… which students cannot access at school. You have to check out the quote from the White House on the use of technology.
Wait a minute, wouldn’t it stand to reason that if DOPA actually went through the next logical(yeah…that really describes our legislation)course of action would be to limit access to YouTube and services such as these in school as well??
It doesn’t jive with me.
I think the “bud” commerical is a prime example of expression through media. I think this clip is pricless in value for motivating students to use this new form of expression. Not that I would encourage my students to bash anyone. (question yes, bash no.) Having them create a movie, parody, blog, about something they care about. Give students the ability to express themselves creatively with a huge audience…
I find the mentality around me regarding this type of expression is: “Be careful of giving the students a voice, They may use it”
I agree with Jennifer. I think it would be a wonderful exercise to get students to express themselves through existing technology aimed at a much wider audience. Blogs, short videos, etc…. that’s what kids today know and respond to.
You know… for the first time in my educational career, I’m dealing with a restricted network. It’s driving me crazy that YouTube is blocked in Philly. And I hate that someone else outside my school is deciding what we can and can’t use as an educational tool in our school.
I have been fighting the fight here in the trenches. Google Video (the poor, underachieving YouTube) really let me down the other day with totally inappropriate content of people having sex on a boat. Students were able to bring up that video and luckily it was brought to my attention. Needless to say, the higher-ups freaked and asked that I restrict video distribution services such as Google Video and YouTube.
I am a YouTube junky. I see the good and I see the bad. It is pretty good about keeping grossly inappropriate material off its site.
However, is it the best place for students to post their work to the rest of the world? There is some recent things going on at the UN that is pushing to rewrite copyright laws that could COULD give the distributor of material rights to what they distribute. I think this is only for TV, but whose to say that MySpace, owned by FOX, could somehow take this content and then use it as their own? How many musicians have their music posted on MySpace?
What I am ultimately getting at is that YouTube might just be the easiest way to distribute video content by students, but it could also be the laziest. In a perfect world, video content created by students should be hosted on district servers. The reality is their bandwidth usage would be very low. We host a student news program from our website.
To this I have to give a lot of love to Apple and the OSX Server software. It does have a built in Blog and Podcast server. It isn’t the greatest blog server, the templates are really bland and boring, but it is a start.
Rather than going to YouTube to post podcasts, vcasts, and blogs, would it not be prudent to look more towards open source solutions first to create such a server?
No way will I comment on this video. The videographer that put this together is a pro. Great editing. Put it on my YouTube favorites list.