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This channel is about my class,
Learning From YouTube: youtube.com/groups/learningfro myoutube.
Our Media Studies course was held in, on, and about YouTube in Fall, 2007 at Pitzer College: all research, assignments and classes occurred on and about the site.
Check out our class page (link above), to see class related, student-produced videos, posts and discussion.
Also see playlists here, especially the 6 TOURS, which help navigate the themes and lessons of the course.
Name: Alexandra
Age: 44
I am a media studies professor at Pitzer College whose work is devoted to writing, teaching about and making activist video.
In Learning from YouTube we considered if this site can be used for educational purposes beyond entertainment. The students' contributions and thoughts about YouTube can be found on my playlists or on our group page: youtube.com/groups/learningfro myoutube.
City: CA
Hometown: Claremont
Country: United States
Occupation: Professor and Maker of Activist ...
Companies: Pitzer College
Interests and Hobbies: I am interested in considering whether this course was a rigorous, exciting, and worthwhile endeavor. Take a look and comment: youtube.com/groups/learningfromyoutube. Or via my playlists or blog:
Website: http://aljean.wordpress.com/
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guitarboy22j | November 08, 2007
Okay I've watched some more of your classes videos and I want to clarify my previous comment in which I did not mean to criticize the fact that the class existed. There seems to be a lot of that, and even personal attacks which are wrong. I think the class is great, and the discussion ensuing is much needed one for all of YouTube, I think.
guitarboy22j | October 30, 2007
Youtube and new communications mediums are brainwashing my generation. No they already have. You look at this like its some kind of test tube scenario. This is a whole generation that has been raised to think that an internet community is a real community. That lack of emotion can be replaced by a video.

"Technology can be either beneficial or harmful, but rarely in equal amounts. In fact almost never." -Neil Postman
VannaBlack4u | September 24, 2007
Youtube can teach us to let go our insecurities and open the door to confidence...So many of us are scared to post our funniest videos on Youtube because the thought of someone else commenting on them saying something negative is nerve-wracking. But when you do let go yourself go, you feel good because in the end, you did what you wanted to do!
spotalex | September 15, 2007
NY Post Today:
September 15, 2007 -- Here's a dream come true for Web addicts: college credit for watching YouTube.
Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif., this fall began offering what may be the first course about the video-sharing site. About 35 students meet in a classroom but work mostly online, where they view YouTube content and post their comments.
usernamenot4gotten | September 15, 2007
I am intrigued by this idea but the class videos are becoming a bit annoying. Sure it was an interesting idea to let the camera be passed around during the class but it gives viewers a headache. I imagine the class is not watching the class much on YouTube themselves, since they already sat through the class once, but I hope the next person in charge of filming will watch a few since you can learn from the the class videos what not to do when you are the one behind the camera. I imagine the level of growth in camera expertise will be quite obvious by the end of semester.
robhaerr | September 15, 2007
I strongly recommend studying some of the very good YouTube community video bloggers who use this medium in a meaningful and interesting manner. Their lives have changed as a result of participating in their own unique way. These folks are a reflection of what is good on YouTube...
geriatric1927
renetto
mharris1920
bernie1927
jimsan1

There are others, but I suggest you make the effort to see how each of these people started with their first video over a year ago, what's happened in their lives, and where they are now on YouTube about a year and a half later. Very interesting and meaningful look at our humanity and how YouTube was the catalyst to communicate this. Sharing our individual history is important.
trash1m | September 14, 2007
What kind of f__king moron would waste valuable learnig time for this type of class? This is a great example of the "touchy feely" learning (?) system we as Americans have allowed into our classrooms. This shit makes me sick!
MediaPraxisme | September 14, 2007
One of the ideas we've discussed frequently in the class has been that the written vernacular of YouTube is overwhelmed by rants, abusive phrases, and other quips that carry little meaning. Academia, meanwhile, attempts to model strategies for more thorough and meaningful conversation, critique and debate; ways of speaking that allows ideas to build and become more nuanced. While I am really open to criticism about this experiment--it will make it interesting intellectually--digs , playground humor and smiley faces are uninformative without examples, ideas, or expression to back them up.
rdewolk | September 14, 2007
let's all get together and buy these people a clue
robhaerr | September 14, 2007
The YouTube clips that make the news are interesting to study....these are the crap and generally useless entertainment. Make sure you dive deeper to see how individuals use YouTube. Visit others' channels to see who they subscribe to, what their favorites are, and comments that others make on their channels. Interested in seeing how the class progresses from the surface of YouTube down into the individually valuable part of YouTube.
Playlists
This tour focuses on the signature forms of video on YouTube (the vlog and the corporate video) and then watches the work of students in Learning from YouTube as they move from a reliance on the word, a video paper, to hacking their academic content into YouTube staples (music videos, ads) more dependent on image and sound. As they lose expressive precision they gain feeling. Hit PLAY ALL to enjoy the tour and don't forget to read the comments and add your own.
Like the Slave/Master dialectic, but obscured by a rhetoric of democracy and real changes in access, the owners of YouTube get everything they need from their users. These videos made for the class "Learning from YouTube," think through how the user well serves the owner of YouTube, and what the user gets from her service. Hit Playall to watch the show!
In this final tour of videos produced for Learning from YouTube, we see all that can be lost in the unregulated sea of images of YouTube. While people certainly do meet, make friends, and even community, all could be Shangra La with tools and architecture that better gathers, links, searches, and connects. YouTube needs a librarian! Hit Playall to enjoy the tour, and don't forget to comment.
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