presented at the Personal Democracy Forum 2009. The real presentation also includes 15 minutes of mashed up YouTube videos - basically a shortened but updated version of An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube
Presentation for the 2007 K12 Online Conference. Full title: Initiating and Sustaining Conversations: Assessment and Evaluation in the Age of Networked Learning.
Over the past few years, I have been collecting interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 70+ videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use.
Several Magnatune recording have made the individual studio tracks available for remixing.
(These tracks are under the same Attribution-Noncommericial-ShareAlike license as every thing else in the
Magnatune catalog.). These are in WAV format (archived in ZIP files) and taken directly from the
pre-mixed recording sessions:
This is where I found a really fantastic track for an educational presentation. Check out "Phoenix" by the group "Ambient Teknology." click the album title (phoenix) and tracks appear on the right side. I chose "Goa life"
He writes, "I should warn you that this is probably not a particularly suitable topic for a blog - an academic paper might be more appropriate to do the subject full justice."
No, there is a supposition that the type of writing in an "academic paper" is a different type of writing from what he is offering here.
The same content may very well be presented in either, and the difference lies only in how that content is treated: subject to secret review and editing in the one case, and open scrutiny in the other.
"the boundaries between traditional disciplines are dissolving, traditional methods of representing knowledge (books, academic papers, and so on) are becoming less important, and the role of traditional academics or experts are undergoing major change,"
These are points that have been captured in a wide body of writings, from Gibson's depiction of Cyberspace to the perceptron of the 1950s and the connectionist literature of the 1980s to populist works such as Rushkoff's Cyberia and the widely popular Cluetrain Manifesto. It is hard to know where this account originates; everybody (including the academics) as as though they have discovered it for the first time.
knowledge is not an object, but a series of flows; it is a process, not a productit is produced not in the minds of people but in the interactions between peoplethe idea of acquiring knowledge, as a series of truths, is obsolete
"the boundaries between traditional disciplines are dissolving, traditional methods of representing knowledge (books, academic papers, and so on) are becoming less important, and the role of traditional academics or experts are undergoing major change,"