Videos were due today! I was quite impressed. Last week I gave a quick presentation of IMovie, Final Cut Express and Windows Movie Maker (actually I had a PC student do the latter). My tutorials in the first section were a disaster because of technical issues, but I figured it out during the break and was able to do an ok job for the second class. Technical issues seem to be a theme with this class. Last night I received several emails from students alerting me that youtube was down because of site maitenance and they couldn't upload their videos. Then this morning when the students were supposed to premeir their videos, youtube was still down. Luckily most of the students had a copy of their movie on flash drives. This is a good lesson for preparing a presentation; always be ready to have some aspect of the technology fail.
Anyway, I saw 9 videos today, which were all great. I though the assignment (despite the technical issues and the normal kinks with group work) really worked and became an excellent teaching tool for exploring McLuhan's ideas. I will definitely give the assignnet next semester.
Here are links to the videos (a couple have not been sent to me so I will update the post when I get them).
Enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSIcgnQcsqc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMgnoSHD_eU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlJRQRO6yYk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo3tiAyDBSc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T_dx6G-KfM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8GKXaE9j8U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgv72SRHdUI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sxvuVu0FEM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5qsaWcc-_U
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I watched the videos (mostly) and was struck by how visually (literality) biased they were. The spaces that McLuhan references for example were only presented visually. Now before you say but this is youtube, let me say that if the assignemnt were given say to Wyndham lewis the visuals would have reflected the vorticist painters works, to Picasso cubist ideas, to warhol etc...Certainly some of the presentations did achieve somewhat my recommendations. All in all a good assignment!
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