Could You Teach an Entire Course on YouTube?
I haven't had a chance to delve into this more deeply, but was intrigued by an Andy Carvin article about a teacher who's using YouTube to teach an entire course this semester and the responses she's getting from people about it.
The professor teaching the course said:
“The class’s structure imitates that of YouTube, modeling its strengths and weaknesses,” she told me earlier this week. “It is an inflexible structure that nevertheless supports a high degree of user creativity. There are time limits and ever conventionalizing norms shaping video production as well as severe character limits on word usage. The vernacular of the site does not encourage complex written thought. It is a relatively democratic space with easy access for anyone who owns or has access to the technology. The range of materials on the site is growing but may not provide all we need to understand the very site itself.”
“Meanwhile,” she continued, “the strengths and weaknesses of traditional higher education are always available as a comparison, given that we are not following these standards but often wish we might be. I believe that much of the learning about YouTube will be produced by the constraints and openness of the form of the class.”
What do you think? Good idea? Bad idea? What will happen as a result?
The professor teaching the course said:
“The class’s structure imitates that of YouTube, modeling its strengths and weaknesses,” she told me earlier this week. “It is an inflexible structure that nevertheless supports a high degree of user creativity. There are time limits and ever conventionalizing norms shaping video production as well as severe character limits on word usage. The vernacular of the site does not encourage complex written thought. It is a relatively democratic space with easy access for anyone who owns or has access to the technology. The range of materials on the site is growing but may not provide all we need to understand the very site itself.”
“Meanwhile,” she continued, “the strengths and weaknesses of traditional higher education are always available as a comparison, given that we are not following these standards but often wish we might be. I believe that much of the learning about YouTube will be produced by the constraints and openness of the form of the class.”
What do you think? Good idea? Bad idea? What will happen as a result?
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Permalink Reply by viovio on
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I think that one problem would be how to close your group.
The idea and spirit of youtube I think is libre, but if you want only a group of students to participate then it's better to use a private channel or tool that will support videosharing.
I've seen mean comments (written by teens I guess) to some classprojects.
Now, I would love to study via youtube or teachertube. I think that it would really open doors for people that can't afford going to developed countries to study.
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Permalink Reply by Sue Waters on -
Thanks Michelle this is really interesting what the teacher is doing... She even talks about how she is not totally into YouTube herself and is looking forward to investigating YouTube with her students.
Here is the introductory video into the course --- that is definitely worth a watch as she talks about the reasons behind the course and what they will be studying.
Watch then read Andy Carvin's post.
Actually I think it is a really good idea -- although some of the areas she wants to explore relating to expert vs collective wisdom and values of community -- would be good to see the students venture outside of YouTube and then post their learnings on video at YouTube.
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I'm going to deviate a little bit from the subject, but I want to tell you about dotsub.com.
In that site you can also subtitle the videos in order to translate them to other languages.
So one videocourse could be used by the whole world. I found that simply fantastic.
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Permalink Reply by Sue Waters on
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Yes I have checked out dotsub.com and how cool is that where videos can be translated into different languages! Changing course I was in an online session yesterday and one of the participants teaches students who is English is Second language. She said she is using Scrabble in Facebook to improve their skills. Now that is a good use.
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Permalink Reply by Serena Ellis on -
No, I can't teach entire course on youtube because I don't know about this. If you tell me something about it then I will try. I hope it will helpful for English students and they easily get information about course. Schülersprachreisen
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