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Rethinking US. A Student's Journey and discovery of YouTube - Learning from the Digital Ethnography Working Group @ KSU. http://youtube.com/groups_members?name=ksudigg This video tracks the journey I began when researching the question - Why do people blog? - as a project for one of my Information Science classes. I first posed the question in a class discussion with great derision. I felt that "spewing your guts" all over the internet and sharing them with the world was "stupid and needy." My professor convinced me to use the question as my research topic. He also sent me the link to Dr. Wesch's Web 2.0 video. http://youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE I was captivated by Wesch's portrayal of the "big picture" and the feeling of interconnectedness it gave me. Inspired, I began searching through all of his videos and those of his Digital Ethnography students. I began branching out by watching not only the students' videos - but also the videos in their playlists and favorites. If I drew a map of all the videos I watched - starting with Dr. Wesch's in the center - it would look a great deal like a family tree. (This "tree effect" fascinates me and I could go on forever on that tangent, so I'll force myself to stop there.) Over time my question evolved to - How is blogging changing the world? - and then finally - How is vlogging changing US? After watching hundreds of videos I finally decided - (duh! forehead slap) - to create my own account. The humanity and connection I witnessed in my many hours of viewing transformed me from cynical skeptic to converted vlogger. I created this video as my final report and played it for my class during our project presentations. I wanted to take them on my journey of discovery. I wanted to show what I had learned and try to answer some of the questions I journaled along the way. Most of all I wanted to create something that would portray my own "RETHINKING" and a few of the ways in which we all might be RETHINKING US. Thank you, Dr. Wesch and DE students. "We're as unfinished as the shoreline upon this beach." - Joan Anderson To see my playlist of all the videos used in creating this video check here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C08EA7440B28CB4D Tags: web2.0 ksu digital ethnography mwesch machine using us student journey learning rethinking answers vloggerconvert |
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Introducing our YouTube Ethnography Project For more information go to: http://mediatedcultures.net/youtube.htm Please subscribe to our profile pages, ask us questions, answer our questions, or just hang out. Team members include: thepoasm http://www.youtube.com/user/thepoasm abo46n2 http://www.youtube.com/user/abo46n2 cschwiet http://www.youtube.com/user/cschwiet MaKMelman http://www.youtube.com/user/MaKMelman LeeRedman http://www.youtube.com/user/LeeRedman dippyhude http://www.youtube.com/user/dippyhude seiji306 http://www.youtube.com/user/seiji306 hinderliter84 http://www.youtube.com/user/hinderliter84 sabriel7 http://www.youtube.com/user/sabriel7 Music by the new draft http://myspace.com/thenewdraft Tags: ksudigg ethnography anthropology digital ksu |
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WorldSim Preview for Spring 2007 A massive experiment in education. For more information see: http://savageminds.org/2006/04/02/a-brief-theory-of-anti-teaching/ Tags: World Simulation Kansas State Education Anthropology |
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A Vision of Students Today a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University. Music by Try^d: http://tryad.org/listen.html Download higher quality wmv: http://www.mediafire.com/?ajm0lzxh223 mov version: http://www.mediafire.com/?3xbhmdmsfmd More information: http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=119 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. So you are welcome to download it, share it, even change it, just as long as you give me some credit and you don't sell it or use it to sell anything. Tags: education statistics media ecology KSU ksudigg digital ethnography WEC2008 |
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Information R/evolution This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively. High Quality WMV download: http://www.mediafire.com/?atyamxuyn2p Quicktime: http://www.mediafire.com/?6hqygitsy0v If you are interested in this topic, check out Clay Shirky's work, especially: http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html Also check out David Weinberger's Everything is Miscellaneous: http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/ This video is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. So you are welcome to download it, share it, even change it, just as long as you give me some credit and you don't sell it or use it to sell anything. Tags: information revolution evolution web2.0 ksudigg ksu digital ethnography |
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A Portal to Media Literacy Presented at the University of Manitoba June 17th 2008. (for those of you waiting for the Library of Congress presentation, it will be posted July 19th-ish.) From Stephen's Lighthouse: http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/archives/2008/07/michael_wesch_l.html "Many of you have probably seen Kansas State University prof Michael Wesch's thought-provoking video, "A Vision of Students Today". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o. Recently Dr. Wesch spoke at the University of Manitoba where he explained the the basis of this video in a talk entitled, "Michael Wesch and the Future of Education." I found it fascinating! He describes how he so naturally incorporates emerging technologies into his courses from the smallest seminar type class to the largest lecture theatre filled class. More importantly he not only talks about the technologies but how he encourages extraordinary participation and collaboration from his students by engaging them in meaningful learning activities. Although the video is 66 minutes long...pour a coffee, iced tea or glass of wine and enjoy this dynamic presentation from a master teacher." http://umanitoba.ca/ist/production/streaming/podcast_wesch.html Dubbed "the explainer" by popular geek publication Wired because of his viral YouTube video that summarizes Web 2.0 in under five minutes, cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch brought his Web 2.0 wisdom to the University of Manitoba on June 17. During his presentation, the Kansas State University professor breaks down his attempts to integrate Facebook, Netvibes, Diigo, Google Apps, Jott, Twitter, and other emerging technologies to create an education portal of the future. "It's basically an ongoing experiment to create a portal for me and my students to work online," he explains. "We tried every social media application you can think of. Some worked, some didn't." Tags: pedagogy media literacy culture significance college |
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The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version) "Web 2.0" in just under 5 minutes. http://mediatedcultures.net This is a slightly revised and cleaned up version of the video that was featured on YouTube in February 2007. I considered releasing it as an "eternal beta" in true Web 2.0 style, but decided to let it stand as is and start working on future projects. Many of my future videos will address the last 30 seconds of this video (the "rethink ..." part). Thank you all for the helpful comments on the earlier draft. It has been a great experience to connect with so many people interested in similar issues. Once again, there are higher quality versions available for download: Windows Media File (55 MB): http://www.mediafire.com/?2wnmpy2ibz1 Quicktime File (96 MB): http://www.mediafire.com/?axhbjnmw4yn Mojiti Version (for comments, translations, etc.): http://mojiti.com/kan/2743/5984 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. So you are welcome to download it, share it, even change it, just as long as you give me some credit and you don't sell it or use it to sell anything. I received many more positive comments than negative about the song choice (great work Deus!), but if you are one of those who does not like the song just download the video and change the audio track to your liking. The video was created by me (Michael Wesch), working alone from my house in St. George, Kansas. I used CamStudio for the screen captures and Sony Vegas for the panning/cropping/zooming animations. Someday I might make a video tutorial for those who are interested. Tags: ksudigg web2.0 ksu anthropology ethnography |
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Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us Final version now available! http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g http://mediatedcultures.net Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes. This is the 2nd draft, and I plan on doing one more final draft. Please leave comments on what could be changed or improved, or what needs to be excluded or included. Subscribe if you want to be notified when the revision is released. UPDATE: I just added this video to Mojiti where you can actually write your comments into the video itself. It is an exciting experiment in "Video 2.0". Go check it out at http://mojiti.com/kan/2024/3313 and add your voice! Transcripts are now available as well: http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=78 A couple of people have noted that the statement, "XML was created to do just that" (separate form from content) is misleading because CSS enables the same effect with HTML. I tried to integrate CSS into the video, but it ruined the flow. Perhaps in the next draft. My statement on XML is based on the following from xml.com: "In order to appreciate XML, it is important to understand why it was created. XML was created so that richly structured documents could be used over the web. The only viable alternatives, HTML and SGML, are not practical for this purpose. HTML, as we've already discussed, comes bound with a set of semantics and does not provide arbitrary structure." Thank you all for the comments. With your help the next draft will be cleaned up and hopefully free of factual errors. A higher quality version is available for download here: http://www.mediafire.com/?6duzg3zioyd Please note that this is the second draft and the final version will not be available until late February after I review all comments and revise the video. Please return for a new download link at that time. The song is "There's Nothing Impossible" by Deus, available for free at http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/103/ Deus offers music under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license, yet one more example of the interlinking of people sharing and collaborating this video is attempting to illustrate. CC: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ Michael Wesch Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology Kansas State University Tags: ksudigg web2.0 digital ethnography hypermedia anthropology |
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Our Tech History: Iota Block This is an in-class activity we did in Ted Curran's Digital Design class at City Arts and Technology High School in San Francisco. We wrote quick one-liners about the extent to which technology pervades our lives. Then we used the iSight camera on Ted's computer to film this video in class. This activity owes a great debt of gratitude to Professor Michael Wesch's piece entitled "A Vision of Students Today" that he made with his Digital Ethnography class at Kansas State University. The music is by me, Ted Curran, and it is called "program your brain". Please contact me about licensing it via a Creative Commons license. Tags: cat city arts technology digital design ted curran mwesch ethnography |