I believe that one of the biggest literacies to hit the young kids is the advent of YouTube. While it may have started as a way of showing "bum fights" or showing off your kid learning how to ride a bike, YouTube is now becoming a the mecca of the multimedia world.
What YouTube allows for is for virtual real time news delivery and commentary. Barack Obama gives a speech on race, within minutes its posted online for the entire world to see. It gives the public access to the entire speech and viewable "On Demand."
We no longer need networks to provide the news. Where YouTube then took shape is that commentaries by everyday people will begin to popup. Virtual soapboxes appear across youtube. It brings together a community of people around a topic. Offfering differences of opinions, and exposing viewers to a multitude opinions
As far as students go, it can enrich their lives by watching historical events or "how to" videos. Everything from campy School House rocks videos to teach different topics.
Students can also use YouTube as an Art Outlet. Whether posting a video for their garage band, or an interesting artistic endeveaur, it allows students the opportunity to expose their creation to not just a local audience, but a world wide audience.
I think that YouTube allows for students to have to develop a coherent idea and then present it in an understandable way. In essence, what YouTube is doing, is helping to hone the presentation skills of students. This will help them from the classroom to the boardroom.
The other great part of YouTube is the interaction between poster and viewer. Viewers can praise or critique parts of the video, allowing for real time feedback to improve the next generation of content.
While schools block out YouTube, and for obvious reasons, I believe it is essential for kids to use this vehicle to express their ideas. Whether ranting about how New Kids On The Block have reunited
or discussing the merits of the death penalty, it has become a mutlimedia message board that connects the ever increasing flat world.
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As a novice blogger, I have a question, how did you embed your YouTube screens?
When you see a Youtube video you want to embed, to the right of the video is an embedding link.
Then when you post on blogger you have to go to the "html" side, not the visual side, and then paste it there. You can't paste it in the visual side.
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