Now, check out the Beccas for best educational video and best entertaining video from a SCILS 598 classmate.
Best Educational Video: Did You Know? from SL
I chose this one because it's a cause that's really important to me, too, and I'm glad SL is getting the word out about dogs in need of homes.
Best Entertaining Video: LaserBugs from JS
I chose this one because it made me laugh out loud. It's hard to beat that!
I also have to give an honorable mention to MD. I loved the editing in her videos that give the scrapbook and film reel effects to them.
Showing posts with label YouTube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YouTube. Show all posts
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Entertainment Video
Here's a quick video of photos from several Rustic Overtones shows over the course of two weekends in August 2007 taken with my cousin's cell phone and set to a fun song of theirs, "Check."
Original video here.
Original video here.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Education vs. Entertainment
Do education videos stand a chance against entertainment videos?
Of course they do!
First of all, who says the two have to be mutually exclusive? In fact, don't many people prefer their educational experiences to have an entertaining element?
Secondly, as we've discussed time and time again in this course, there are many different types of learners, including visual ones. In Social Software in Libraries, Farkas references dual coding theory, which states that learning is best accomplished through a combination of visual and auditory channels. (206) For these reasons, I think educational videos on the web will continue to be very popular.
I think one of the major benefits of 2.0 technologies and of technology in general is that in our day and age the line between education and entertainment isn't as solid as it once was. The other day I used an online video to learn how to draw a goat (don't ask). This may not be "educational" in the same way our grandparents might conceive of education, but I did learn something! Education has left the classroom and can be found anywhere and everywhere. When I did the 23 Things program with CTLS one of the first topics was lifelong learning. While lifelong learning is nothing new, the internet and things like YouTube make self-directed learning much easier.
Of course they do!
First of all, who says the two have to be mutually exclusive? In fact, don't many people prefer their educational experiences to have an entertaining element?
Secondly, as we've discussed time and time again in this course, there are many different types of learners, including visual ones. In Social Software in Libraries, Farkas references dual coding theory, which states that learning is best accomplished through a combination of visual and auditory channels. (206) For these reasons, I think educational videos on the web will continue to be very popular.
I think one of the major benefits of 2.0 technologies and of technology in general is that in our day and age the line between education and entertainment isn't as solid as it once was. The other day I used an online video to learn how to draw a goat (don't ask). This may not be "educational" in the same way our grandparents might conceive of education, but I did learn something! Education has left the classroom and can be found anywhere and everywhere. When I did the 23 Things program with CTLS one of the first topics was lifelong learning. While lifelong learning is nothing new, the internet and things like YouTube make self-directed learning much easier.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Thing 20: You Too Can YouTube
I use YouTube all the time. It's great for watching music videos (since you can't really do that on MTV or VH1 anymore); catching up on whatever had everyone cracking up on late night TV last night; or looking for clips of favorite commercials and TV shows from childhood (love the nostalgia factor).
I'm only really familiar with libraries utilizing YouTube for marketing purposes, but I think there's also potential there for instruction, as proven by the "In Plain English" videos found through the CTLS 23 Things. Reference librarians could probably save themselves a lot of time if they could just slap a video on how to attach a document to an e-mail on their library's homepage and direct patrons to that.
Anyway, you've probably all seen the video of librarians dancing to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" in Australia that was linked to in a recent issue of AL Direct, but here's a little more MJ-at-the-library action for you:
I'm only really familiar with libraries utilizing YouTube for marketing purposes, but I think there's also potential there for instruction, as proven by the "In Plain English" videos found through the CTLS 23 Things. Reference librarians could probably save themselves a lot of time if they could just slap a video on how to attach a document to an e-mail on their library's homepage and direct patrons to that.
Anyway, you've probably all seen the video of librarians dancing to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" in Australia that was linked to in a recent issue of AL Direct, but here's a little more MJ-at-the-library action for you:
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