Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
Scot sent the link to this video on one of our listservs–from someone’s blog post. I haven’t had a chance to ask him about it, but since this is perfect for my 201 students to watch, I’ve posted it here.
[ADD: just got word that Jenny originally posted this. Very cool. Do you imagine this sort of project could be a CV line?]
[ADD 2 (feb. 7): “A LESSON IN VIRAL VIDEO
Professor gives his class a real-world demonstration of how to
use often-viewed sites to quickly spread content.
http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/02/07/web” (WPA-List post)]
Could this be a CV line? I dunno. But it’s a great question, one we hit on in 703 today when I showed it there.
Comment by scot — February 6, 2007 @ 6:48 pm
Awesome! I’d love to hear what was said.
Comment by Rick — February 6, 2007 @ 11:36 pm
I guess my reaction, from an LIS perspective is: Yeah, and…. I guess it is cute, but the message is pretty basic in terms of a lot of the discussion going on in Information Science. This is old news and part of old conversations. It’s been done, it’s still being done, etc.
Sorry if I’m the grump!
Comment by k8 — February 7, 2007 @ 12:49 am
Disclaimer for previous comment:
It should be noted that I am in a crabby, hyper-critical mood. I doubt anything would please me this evening. Family trait, I’m afraid - on both sides!
Comment by K8 — February 7, 2007 @ 4:29 am
The message may not be anything new to IS or to any with or working on an advanced degree in, for example, rhet/comp or Ed science, but it will work for many of the students in 201. We’re discussing this topic at the moment. And seeing a professor create a multimodal/hyper text such as this in an academic context is new to them. Besides, it just plain cool.
And if you’re a writing instructor dealing with institutional constraints and thinking that amounts to: students need to become better writers, so have them write so many pages, and sure, they can use computers. Just have them print everything out and placed into a binder.
Even short works as this build towards a rethinking of writing for those who are stuck in the past.
Hope you’re feeling better.
Comment by Rick — February 7, 2007 @ 1:20 pm
I’m fine. And I can see using it with students. I was just frustrated at comments about it elsewhere by academics who should know about these things - that is, they seemed amazed, or at least more impressed than I thought was necessary
Comment by K8 — February 7, 2007 @ 4:52 pm
k8 said: “they seemed amazed, or at least more impressed than I thought was necessary”
rick responded: “which says a lot about where we’re at?”
Comment by Rick — February 7, 2007 @ 7:52 pm