1. ethnography
2. wiki
3. blog
4. geographic
5. technology
6. addicted
7. sanitize
8. catastrophe
9. diversion
10. procrastination
11. textual relations
12. tabloid
13. typography
14. taboo
15. trashtalk
16. whambam
17. cyberspace
18. social utility
19. exhibitionism
20. graffiti
21. mediocrity
22. fragment
23. puzzle
24. googling (say it fast)
25. stupidity
26. blogger
27. a milllionbillion
28. cataclysmic
29. fatalistic
30. bibliography
31. cellular tellular phone
32. plasticity
Almost all of these words are related to my videos in the last post. A few aren't related and I'll admit, a few aren't even words, but I also have a few extra and another list of thirty, so I thought I'd take some licence with my word choices.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
youtube and education
This video is about more than just youtube, it's an informal analysis of education today. It makes me think about the time I spend on the computer, doing my homework, reading actual texts for school and searching to find information online. If I think about it, the only textbook I actually use this semester is for math. For biology and writer's craft, I'm much more likely to google any questions I have. This movie highlights impact of technology on study habits and communication.
At the end of the video is a link to the blog Digital Ethnography. I looked through the blog and found a page of youtube stats about the types of videos posted and the people who post them. Then I realized there is an entire youtube project with videos about the project (which is a study of the culture of the digital world on youtube), why we youtube, the history of youtube, the authenticity of youtube, the community of youtube, and the sound of youtube. Basically, if you want to learn about youtube, this is the place to go.
I found the reasons why people youtube intriguing. Some people say they do it because they have no social life, others youtube to escape reality, twelve percent say they are addicted to youtube and sixteen percent want to be famous. There are many more reasons if you follow this link and find out for yourself.
These videos, especially the first one also deal with distraction. In the clips, students write about multitasking and facebooking while watching a lecture. They talk about doing what's relevant to their own life and weeding out the rest of what they are taught. Still, the clips don't condemn the Internet for the distraction it provides. Instead, the filmmaker has realized that the move towards technology based education is an unavoidable and forward step. Education needs to shift with the introduction of new technology to avoid alienating students who would prefer to google over reading a blackboard or would rather go to an online encyclopedia than buy hundreds of dollars worth of textbooks.
At the end of the video is a link to the blog Digital Ethnography. I looked through the blog and found a page of youtube stats about the types of videos posted and the people who post them. Then I realized there is an entire youtube project with videos about the project (which is a study of the culture of the digital world on youtube), why we youtube, the history of youtube, the authenticity of youtube, the community of youtube, and the sound of youtube. Basically, if you want to learn about youtube, this is the place to go.
I found the reasons why people youtube intriguing. Some people say they do it because they have no social life, others youtube to escape reality, twelve percent say they are addicted to youtube and sixteen percent want to be famous. There are many more reasons if you follow this link and find out for yourself.
These videos, especially the first one also deal with distraction. In the clips, students write about multitasking and facebooking while watching a lecture. They talk about doing what's relevant to their own life and weeding out the rest of what they are taught. Still, the clips don't condemn the Internet for the distraction it provides. Instead, the filmmaker has realized that the move towards technology based education is an unavoidable and forward step. Education needs to shift with the introduction of new technology to avoid alienating students who would prefer to google over reading a blackboard or would rather go to an online encyclopedia than buy hundreds of dollars worth of textbooks.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
30 Words
I had to miss writer's craft today and go to biology instead and I wasn't happy about it. I ended up making my list of thirty words while the teacher talked and I now have a very biological theme.
1. catastrophe
2. tori tarsali
3. coagulate
4. polypeptide
5. symbiotic
6. vicariance
7. centrifuge
8. cyanide
9. niche
10. inexactitude
11. squabble
12. nestle
13. squirrel
14. cataclysmic
15. derision
16. nebula
17. semblance
18. polyploidy
19. zygote
20. scruples
21. Galapagos
22. punctuation
23. phenolphthalein
24. xylene cyanol
25. typography (for ms parrish)
26. oort cloud
27. cellular tellular phone
28. pyloric sphincter
29. wriggle
30. spliceosome
31. squabble
And yes, these are related to my youtube video, since my youtube video was about biology.
1. catastrophe
2. tori tarsali
3. coagulate
4. polypeptide
5. symbiotic
6. vicariance
7. centrifuge
8. cyanide
9. niche
10. inexactitude
11. squabble
12. nestle
13. squirrel
14. cataclysmic
15. derision
16. nebula
17. semblance
18. polyploidy
19. zygote
20. scruples
21. Galapagos
22. punctuation
23. phenolphthalein
24. xylene cyanol
25. typography (for ms parrish)
26. oort cloud
27. cellular tellular phone
28. pyloric sphincter
29. wriggle
30. spliceosome
31. squabble
And yes, these are related to my youtube video, since my youtube video was about biology.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
To carry
If education were grade two math, youtube would be the flashcards.
Youtube is the flashcard of highschool.
Youtube is the flashcard of highschool.
Youtube Distracts (16)
Chew chew chew
On hair
On pencil
On pen
Doodle doodle doodle
On paper
On notebook
On hand
Dream dream dream
Of friends
On hair
On pencil
On pen
Doodle doodle doodle
On paper
On notebook
On hand
Dream dream dream
Of friends
Of Friday
Of prom
Google google google
A name
A list
A blog
A world of distraction
Google google google
A name
A list
A blog
A world of distraction
Always at our fingertips
Friday, April 11, 2008
Letter pictures
Poetry? Art? Pictures? Writing? Beautiful? Silly? Ingenious? Cute?
Go here and decide for yourself. Maybe even take out a pen and give it a try.
(If you must know I think it's poetry art pictures silly ingenious and cute and my favourite things are the colours and the faces =)
Go here and decide for yourself. Maybe even take out a pen and give it a try.
(If you must know I think it's poetry art pictures silly ingenious and cute and my favourite things are the colours and the faces =)
Atwood on Religion
This is a bit of a grim interview, but it's interesting nonetheless.
I haven't read A Handmaiden's Tale but I could still follow this interview about repressive regimes and the loss of human rights in America. The book is set in a future where women are denied their freedom in the name God and the country. The creepy part is, every horrible thing that happens in the book has happened in humanity's history, making it disturbingly realistic. Margaret Atwood clearly believes that a loss of freedom and democracy could happen in the United States, another scary idea that she presents in this interview. There are other interesting points about Christianity, witches and the weakness of our society in the interview as well.
From a writer's perspective, I think the background information she gathered for her novel adds to its strength. Instead of just making up a future, she based the fictional novel on her views about humanity, making the novel true in a strange and scary way.
I haven't read A Handmaiden's Tale but I could still follow this interview about repressive regimes and the loss of human rights in America. The book is set in a future where women are denied their freedom in the name God and the country. The creepy part is, every horrible thing that happens in the book has happened in humanity's history, making it disturbingly realistic. Margaret Atwood clearly believes that a loss of freedom and democracy could happen in the United States, another scary idea that she presents in this interview. There are other interesting points about Christianity, witches and the weakness of our society in the interview as well.
From a writer's perspective, I think the background information she gathered for her novel adds to its strength. Instead of just making up a future, she based the fictional novel on her views about humanity, making the novel true in a strange and scary way.
Translation
Okay, this is a youtube video my biology teacher told us to watch, but it is also one of the weirdest and most creative things I have ever seen. The beginning is normal (and boring) enough, but then the dancing, rhyming, music and Jabberwocky quoting starts and the video becomes an educational poem and interpretive dance.
A man talks for the first 3 minutes and 40 seconds. He explains the sciencey part, but he's not very interesting, so if you're impatient you can skip ahead and watch the protein synthesis dance without the chalkboard explanation.
A man talks for the first 3 minutes and 40 seconds. He explains the sciencey part, but he's not very interesting, so if you're impatient you can skip ahead and watch the protein synthesis dance without the chalkboard explanation.
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