Part of our assignment this week for class included commenting on some video content posted on the our professor’s blog. She posted three different videos in order to solicit comments. The first two videos were put together by Michael Wesch from the University of Kansas. He’s a very well respected and outspoken proponent of Web 2.0 technologies.
As requested, I did comment on the video. I enjoyed it. It is a pretty good representation of how the web is evolving. I don’t feel that my comments flowed well overall, but they are what they are. I didn’t take the time to really organize them properly, to be honest. Look for the South Park version of a bald guy with glasses.
The second video hit home as well. I’m a big fan of utilizing technology efficiently and at every opportunity. This video was created by Michael Wesch as well. It’s message is essentially about the lack of evolution in education delivery even though there is a great deal of technology already in the classroom.
Again, I did comment on it. This time, I was a bit more organized and actually felt pretty good about what I had to say about the video and potential paths that could be taken in order to make immediate changes and changes in the future.
The third video is a bit longer. It’s 20 minutes in length. The speaker is Sir Ken Robinson. Obviously, he’s speaking at an education conference. He’s an excellent speaker and will have you chuckling throughout the presentation.
He’s talking about creativity in education and proposing the possibility that perhaps creativity is stifled in schools today. This one really got me on my soap box. I’ll leave it to my comments to really express how I feel about that particular topic.
My somewhat heated comments can be seen here.
All three videos were quite intriguing and thought provoking. I think I overshot the 500-700 word requirements of the responses on at least two of my tirades. So, my apologies to Dr. Enriquez for having to endure additional babbling.
You can say that again, Brian! You are always insightful. So no apologies required for going over the word limit. I wasn’t counting.