Nominations
From The Web 2.0 Online Learning Film Festival
66 received as of March 23 -- feel free to add your picks and/or commentary.
Heavy Metal Umlaut Bands: The Screencast, by Jon Udell (nominated by Gardner Campbell)
I showed this video at a humanities conference. The next semester a self-described technophobic colleague began using a wiki in her seminar. That's a powerful video! I wish I could figure out how to embed the video here.
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/umlaut.html
Fast Food Freestyle (Nominated by Wayne MacIntosh)
"I'm sorry, can you throw that down again?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLn45-7Pn2Y
Monty Trek (Nominated by Alan Levine)
You can probably guess what's being mashed up here by the title. This one must score off the charts on the Geekometer!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEnyT0_BjxA
Principles of Economics, Translated (nominated by Steve Greenlaw)
Good to have a sense of humor about your own discipline.
My Second Life (Nominated by Alan Levine)
"On one of his visits in SL, Filmmaker Douglas Gayeton came across a series of seven video dispatches by a character named Molotov Alva. It appears that a man by the same name mysteriously disappeared from his real world California home in January 2007. Gayeton put Alva's dispatches together into a documentary of seven episodes. Will he find the answers he's looking for?"
-- An interesting example of machinima.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa7u0a9pUSs
How To Talk Like a Pirate (Nominated by Scott Leslie)
Avast ye scurvy scum!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tL1jbs0ppQ
Ask A Ninja Question 16 "How To Kill A Ninja" (Nominated by Scott Leslie)
There's no denying the popularity of these Ninja videos. The appeal escapes me. (Brian)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR68W56DCBU
How to write a fugue (Nominated by Scott Leslie)
Described by the creator as 'silly and pretentious.' But it manages to make Britney Spears fodder for classical music instruction, and that's gotta be something.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgDcC2LOJhQ
Voices from the New American Schoolhouse (Nominated by the professor)
Based on Fairhaven School
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgpuSo-GSfw
The Future is Open (Nominated by Leigh Blackall)
Explicit connection between spirits of open source and learning. "What he learn, we all learn. What he knows, we all benefit from."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRrGUEurQCw
Ask a Ninja -What is podcasting? (Nominated by Leigh Blackall & Jerry Slezak)
Podcasting, ninjas... can you get hotter than that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEmss2lg-ug
What to do in a Zombie Attack (Nominated by Leigh Blackall)
Nice remix/satire of Prelinger Archive material.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzkJbWl45kU
Duck and Cover (Nominated by Leigh Blackall)
A classic artifact.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0K_LZDXp0I
Typography School (nominated by Gardner Campbell)
From the YouTube description: Veteran graphic design/typography and letterpress teacher from the London College of Printing: David Dabner talks... giving an insight into the principles of design, creative letterpress and why computers make students sloppy.
Good discussion starter for students and faculty alike.
Le Grand Content (Nominated by Leigh Blackall and Leon Lighips)
Wonderful illustration of information visualization for storytelling. A must for lovers of charts and graphs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWWKBY7gx_0
Admiral Cigarette (1897) (Nominated by Leigh Blackall)
Going deep, deep into the vaults.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hmB08CngWc
Apple Knowledge Navigator (nominated by Gardner Campbell)
Jon Udell unearths a classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drhgAfLFG7M
Can I Get an Amen? (Nominated by Leigh Blackall and Andy Rush)
A descent into the collective audio unconscious, a "...history of the "Amen Break," a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac
Otis Fashion with Bob Mackie (Nominated by Sue Maberry)
Nicely done, straight-ahead instruction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmYJCizqxRI
Value Step Scales using Graphite Pencil by Otis (Nominated by Sue Maberry)
Nothing flashy, just good learnin'...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBVhPqVvi5w
Get Rid of the Camera: Visions from Peter Greenaway (nominated by Gardner Campbell)
Bracing reminder of paradigms we've forgotten to question. Four tyrannies: text, actor, frame, camera.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C_0zUIe45w
Start with a Hard Core: Peter Greenaway on New Media (nominated by Gardner Campbell)
As Roy Batty says in "Blade Runner," "That's the spirit!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8JF5xtUjgc
District Policies Regarding Blogs and Wikis (Nominated by David Wiley)
Remember, blogs and wikis are gateway applications. Brilliant student work with existing materials.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Lk2uU_elU
Rick Noblenski: Blasting Caps Expert and Wiki Advocate (Nominated by David Wiley)
Another student piece from Wikiblogedu.org. You can buy a Rick Nobelenski t-shirt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQvLRXpGbzk
zefrank on memory
Without question, this guy gets the online video monologue, we should be studying his technique. That, and he's funny as hell.
http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/12/120606.html
Architecture in Second Life Machinima (Nominated by Martha Burtis)
A video showing how Crescendo Design has been using Second Life as a professional tool in their real life practice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KruzH82Z2qQ
Also Viral Learning Center (Nominated by Andy Rush)
Oh, it would be awesome to isolate and present some of these techniques for this session... What are the key ingredients in a successful viral video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsHPJ0eJilU
Why Don't We Do It In Our Sleeves? (Nominated by Andy Rush)
Brian is still trying to teach his four-year-old this one. Given the hypnotic pull of the screen, this might be worth putting in front of him.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8574515984097771637&hl=en
Shining Recut (Nominated by Andy Rush)
Pretty much guaranteed to make anyone who has seen the original film laugh. A very fun, short way of illustrating the power of the remix.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVjl7gK4HGU
Human Dog Laboratory (Nominated by Andy Rush)
This video #5 in a series of 8 on the disillusion of a public school teacher.
http://www.human-dog.com/lab/HDvidblogs05/HD-092605.mov
How and why to use a reel mower (Nominated by Andy Rush)
This might be a possibility for those wanting to get started in videoblogging (Nominated by Andy Rush)
http://www.makevideo.org.uk/2005/08/19/62/
Transforming the Material World into our Inner Vision: An Interview with Bill Viola (nominated by Gardner Campbell)
Pioneering video artist Bill Viola, interviewed in Japan. A lovely oasis for parched and frantic consumers who yearn for more than just another "clip".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37u-Tx4XHj8
The Dead -- Billy Collins Animated Poetry (Nominated by Alan Levine)
Nice fusion of word and image...'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI5Gp3d7Z-4
I Generation Fan Video (Nominated by Alan Levine)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaQr9zXSY84
Second Life Thriller Mashup (Nominated by Martha Burtis)
http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/2006/01/20/second-life-thriller-mashup/
Cock And Ball Torture - Aphrodisianus (Nominated by Leon Lighips)
Mash-up serendipity can be achieved in the mind of the viewer, with minimal editing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7oCDbDebDA
Invisible Revolution: The Doug Engelbart Story (nominated by Gardner Campbell)
This is only an excerpt of what seems to be a much larger film dating from 2003. If you go to YouTube to watch the video, you'll note a comment from none other than Vint "TCP/IP" Cerf himself. Soon the history of computing will fulfill a general education requirement at better schools all over the world. When that class is taught, Engelbart will be the Isaac Newton of that story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-TCtsFHYmQ
Kel McKeown: Instructional Video: Mash-up made from instructional videos (Nominated by Leon Lighips)
Dry instruction transmogrified into musical magic. Shows what mashup can aspire to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y7Oa4CpjRY
A student created video of the story of Othello shot in WoW (Nominated by Alan Levine)
http://oldeschoolnews.com/news/?q=node/112
“Level Up” - Gamers and their addictive habits (Nominated by Alan Levine)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0yw-B9bKLM
Live the Flavor- the $12.79 production for a Super Bowl commercial (Nominated by Alan Levine)
http://www.jumpcut.com/view?id=F0CBEA0C841311DBA3823EF340157CF2
Sir Ken Robinson on TED Talks (nominated by D'Arcy Norman and S.Fjalar)
Sir Ken Robinson is author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, and a leading expert on innovation and human resources. In this talk, he makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. (Recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA.)
Chad Vader (nominated by Steve Greenlaw)
Is it a mashup, a sendup, or a costume party? Memes, pop culture, and marketing coalesce in this comic literalization of an iconic "day shift manager."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CiW838wNiM
Building an Airplane In Flight (nominated by Gardner Campbell)
This EDS commercial's pretty common in organizational and project management circles, but it's a pretty fair parable for education as well. It's a corrective to the wrong kind of "customer service" paradigms. Or it may be a great example of bootstrapping, or the zone of proximal development. Actually, it works best if the dream is one learner. The plane and the workers and passengers are elements of that learner. The project, fellow learners, is yourself.
Spiders on Drugs (Nominated by Jim Groom)
Context for this one comes from Brian Lamb's comment on Bavatuesdays here:
This is a pretty straight parody of the Canadian government nature series “Hinterland Who’s Who” — which was what kids of my generation had to watch on Saturday mornings instead of cartoons. (Except for Spider-Man, which I recently found out only got through because it was produced in Toronto - http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/01/the_music_every.html )… Man, was my ten year-old self happy when cable TV came to Saskatoon so I could start numbing my brain devoid of liberal regulatory interference. The back story on this video: http://thetyee.ca/Life/2007/01/10/WoodSpider/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbUYsQR3Mes
YouTubers (Nominated by Jim Groom)
Despite the melodramatic music, this video is a nine minute montage that suggests something compelling about the complex intersections of technology and identity -on Youtube specifically but also much more generally.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXwarrIYLJ4
Master Plan - About the power of Google (Nominated by Jim Groom)
An apocalyptic futuristic vision of Google master plan to take over the world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zKXCQpUnMg
EPIC 2014 (nominated by Gardner Campbell)
Another look at Google's power to do evil, if it chose to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKWK3xfvs-k
EPIC 2015 (nominated by Gardner Campbell)
A sanguine sequel. Maybe distributed cognition beats centralized databases.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-auoYsPJ014
Michel Foucault On 'Pleasure Vs. Desire' (Nominated by Jim Groom)
Description from YouTube:
In this 1983 audio clip, Foucault responds to questions about his last project - the multi-volume "History of Sexuality" (three of a planned six were published) ... here, he discusses the shift from the ancient, Greco-Roman sexual ethic that involved 'pleasure' as the primary motif, to the modern (often psychoanalytic) notion of 'desire' which became the modern 'key' to unpacking the 'essence' of the 'human being' ... In the HOS, Foucault traces the historical genealogy of this transformation and in the first volume offers critiques of what he regards as a precarious, entrapping construct - 'sex,' he says, 'is the most speculative, most ideal, and most internal element in a deployment of sexuality organized by power in its grip on bodies and their materiality, their forces, energies, sensations, and pleasures.'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNcQA3MSdIE
Justice Vs. Power - Chomsky Vs. Foucault (Nominated by Jim Groom via this post by Bryan Alexander last year)
Description from YouTube: In 1971, American linguist/social activist Noam Chomsky squared off against French philosopher Michel Foucault on Dutch television ... the program was entitled 'Human Nature: Justice Vs. Power' and offered sharp contrasts between the more traditional view of 'human nature' and what would become a postmodernist perspective ... Chomsky, following a rationalist lineage going back to at least Plato, believes that there is a foundational 'nature' and that its positive aspects (love, creativity, recognizing and embracing justice) must be realized, while Foucault remains skeptical of any such notion... for him, the issue is not so much whether 'justice' or 'human nature' 'exists,' but how they have historically (and currently) function in society ... in regard to justice, he says (this is not included in the clips): "... the idea of justice in itself is an idea which in effect has been invented and put to work in different types of societies as an instrument of a certain political and economic power or as a weapon against that power..." The point of any political struggle, for Foucault, is to alter the 'power relations' in which we all find ourselves ... Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbUYsQR3Mes Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXBfOxfmSDw
The Mother Of All Demos: Doug Engelbart Deals Lightning With Both Hands (nominated by Gardner Campbell)
1968, and Doug Engelbart demonstrates our lives today. Long, and worth it, despite the poor sound.
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-8734787622017763097&hl=en
Not for the faint of heart or easily depressed (possibly offensive content) (brought to your attention by Gardner Campbell)
COLLEGE (a mockumentary by Kelley Scollard)
Speaking truth to power? A parent's worst nightmare?
Everything You See is Fake (Nominated by Jim Groom)
Dove (Nominated by S. Fjalar)
The evolution of a supermodel.
Despotism (Nominated by E. Wayne Ross)
This 1946 film is depressingly relevant.
http://www.archive.org/details/Despotis1946
Avalanche Safety -- Course syllabus in YouTube (nominated by Brian Lamb)
Leigh Blackall blogs about the thinking and process for this awesome clip: “yeah! I want in on the course! I’ll give it a shot! It looks interesting.” -- Me too!
Spare Me My Life! (Nominated by Brad Efford)
"Learn select English phrases through aerobics"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9M5ddlZOYg
Francis Ford Coppola Predicts YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zui4s0aLpr4
Loose Change 2nd Edition (Nominated by David Moore)
Controversial documentary suggesting that the events of September 11th were orchestrated by the American government.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WsyEqKQRBY
The Five Minute University (Nominated by Michelle Lamberson)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO8x8eoU3L4
retroincabulator (Nominated by Michelle Lamberson)
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/retro.wmv
Facebook Video (Nominated by Mary-Carolyn Clanton)
A lesson in how not to use Facebook, not to mention also very funny. I don't know why I can't embed this video, but I wish I could.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FahBBnfHAQ
Harry Potter/Pride and Prejudice Mash-Up (Mary-Carolyn Clanton)
This one blows my mind, which is why I've decided its inherently educational. Whenever I watch this clip I wonder about the similarities between Rowling and Austen’s novel, their respective film adaptations, and characteristics of the people who make up their “fandoms.” It’s incredibly thought provoking for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sge5pUSJIRY
