Week 11, Lesson 23 – Video in the Post-Betamax World
November 6, 2007
In the Web 2.0 YouTube video, it was inspiring to recognize so many technologies I knew and had tried out.
The 2006 Senate Race video is a good reminder that we should always watch what we say, we really do never know who could be listening now.
I love the Algorithm march, hilarious, and really pretty cool! The Life Cereal commercial link did not work for me, however, said it was a private video.
The children chicken-dancing were adorable, but it did remind me that when I was teaching, there was a big hubbub about not putting children’s faces up on the Web. Perhaps that fear has subsided somewhat?
As a self-labeled “Grammar Cop,” one thing that does bother me about YouTube (and any web page, potentially), are the grammar errors. For example the summer reading program boasted that it’s “more fun than a barrel of monkees.” Somehow I suspect that they are referring to the animal, and not the 60′s rock/ pop band (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkees). But, I suppose errors are to be expected in a public forum, nobody’s perfect.
It was interesting to find out about Google Video, at a (albeit brief) glance it doesn’t seem to be as fleshed out as YouTube, so I wonder if Google will ever just switch over completely to YouTube and drop Google?
Below I’ll try to embed the video of my friends’ from Texas baby: (The process was different from, as not as clear as, the one from LiveJournal, so I hope it works!
Baby Play Time:
November 8, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Great comments about video. As for the video of the kids, hopefully permission was given to record and publish, probably by signing release forms (we certainly require releases to publish images of minors here at Sunnyvale). And for the grammar, yes, it can be really bothersome. Although in the case of this video, my assumption was that since it was produced by and for teens, the word was misspelt intentionally for cuteness factor.
Maybe we’ll see that baby’s active legs in the Tour de France someday!
-Garrett