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You can find all the videos and other material used in today's presentaion on this blog site.
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Brett

YOUTUBE IN THE WRITING CLASSROOM

Why is video a great source?

1. It can be funny, can liven up the classroom:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bicsqqg5qaE
(openly gay racehorse)

2. It allows for spontaneity:
Let's say that your discussion today started with Bless Me, Ultima but shifts midstream and the class ends up discussing Grapes of Wrath

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COoLHpho4-Y (Bless Me)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1kTh7cXylM (Grapes)

Anyone else have an example?

3. It's a great way of supporting our "visual learners." (around 60%)

SOME BRIEF NUTS AND BOLTS STYLE REMARKS

--how to: save video to your computer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFoYQJbC-O4

--how to diagnose and fix run-on sentences
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgkzMKlXFdI

--how to cite in mla format
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX38SFB_efg&feature=related

--how to cite youtube:
Shimabukuro, Jake. "Ukulele weeps by Jake Shimabukuro." 04 April 2008. Online video clip. YouTube. Accessed on 22 April 2006.

USING VIDEO AS A PART OF A WRITING CLASSROOM

PRE-WRITING/PRE-READING:

Why do children play?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcjPkPIwsog (piaget on education)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzhotvft6cw (aboriginal children playing football)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_iFQl7Fq6M (homeless music)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQSA9XveFVA (children play on sculpture)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mIOEgF3Myg (video game)

CREATE A VIDEO AUTOBIOGRAPHY:
You may use any video that captures any aspect of who you are. You will probably need to use at least 5 videos.
You also have the opportunity to write text that goes along with the videos.
Use the text to place each video into context

Jesus’ Video Autobiography
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4b3gyt5MC0&feature=related
(valley girl)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSo9_iVc9Cs
(to the …who took my poems)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gwUtEEjZJ8
(piano has been drinking)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efnaxJ11Gs0
(tejon reenactment)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ABXaDdIQnE
(calls to gov)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGMZaRdGy2k
(super collider rap)


Now, before you present your collection, create transitions between the videos.
Is there a natural order for the various videos?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4b3gyt5MC0&feature=related
(valley girl)
But, the truth is, I am more than just a lover of 80s culture. I am also a poet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSo9_iVc9Cs
(to the …who took my poems)
Tom Waits has been crucial in spreading poetic ideas (many of which are linked to Bukowski, by the way) through his music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gwUtEEjZJ8
(piano has been drinking)
The music of the piano and the music of the battlefield have much in common.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efnaxJ11Gs0
(tejon reenactment)
And yes, we are truly at war with the government of this state over how to finance our educational system.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ABXaDdIQnE
(calls to gov)
But once all is said and done, I would like to be a science teacher and see to it that many great ideas collide with the many young minds in my classrooms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGMZaRdGy2k
(super collider rap)


CREATE A YOUTUBE STORY
Rules: You may start with any theme, but from that starting point you must only choose videos that are in the “Related Videos” category.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra2T_iMXQVM
(merce Cunningham…beach birds 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkt4yUkMnnk&feature=fvw
(post modern dance history)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BCB_07gfkg&feature=related
(dance history)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We9NR-CaIgM&feature=related
(capoeria)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO4e7t4kImY
(Sergio mendes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpP5poqFq4E
afro-brazilian music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF0DTzkpsHo&feature=related
samba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnL3NLt1mWQ
samba football
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc5pX6vLVRo&feature=related
ronaldo on fifa



NEWS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XKYKNvEvdI&feature=related (tsunami)

http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision
shuttle


HISTORICAL VALUE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXY7TkrPPzI (fireside chat)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ1VpK0uzw4 (historian on fireside chat)

--mention electronic textbook



COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS: ROSEShttp://csubsummerbridge2009.blogspot.com/2009/07/roses-video.html#comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq6Wesg2Oqs (hd version)



POETRY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi2LoWPImZE&feature=related
(yellow rage)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgQLEfSi9ys (you move me)
http://audiopoetry.wordpress.com/category/poet/aram-saroyan/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG24ohpacDk (frost road not taken)

WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

1. It is interactive.
"Incidentally, I despise everything which merely instructs me without increasing or immediately enlivening my activity."Goethe

2. It could be a corrective to the Carr idea that Google is making us stupid.

Here's the reference:
“Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google