"Oil spike!"

This was a simulation in 2007.

I didn't even know ...

you could annotate and add links to your YouTube videos.

"So check it out."



Thanks Tris for showing me the "first interactive video on YouTube." (Sorry, embed disabled)

Obsolete skills and Web 2.0 resumes

In 1993, Seymour Papert wrote a premonitory piece about Knowledge Machines and how "reading will no longer be the unique primary access road to knowledge and learning, and it should therefore no longer be the dominant consideration in the design of School."

The argument continues:

"Demoting reading from its privileged position in the school curriculum is only one of many consequences of Knowledge Machines. A child who has grown up with the freedom to explore provided by such machines will not sit quietly through the standard curriculum dished out in most schools today. Already, children are made increasingly restive by the contrast between the slowness of School and the more exciting pace they experience in videogames and television. But the restiveness is only a pale precursor to what will come when they can freely enter virtual realities of animals in Africa or wars in ancient Greece."

Makes one wonder what skill set companies would be looking for in the 21st century workplace.

Fast forward to 2008: You must have heard of video resumes. And Web 2.0 job sites like jobfox.com promises to "have great companies pursue you" with features like tag clouds and mindmaps for your online CV.

Which brings me to this question: Does that mean it makes better sense to learn via YouTube videos?

Perhaps it's just me but...

I don't think the IT Department is going to like this.

Quote of the Day

"The question is no longer about whether YouTube and FaceBook are suitable media for your in-house training materials and interactive simulations, but rather what's holding you back?"

John Stokdyk

Read more.

And we're not even talking about Wikis, say to "teach" Economics.

How much can you handle?

aka "A Vision of Students Today" by Michael Wesch.

Parliament of YouTube?

Imagine a government in turmoil over YouTube clips.

Read Cory Doctorow's post on Croatian politicians fighting over "funny" YouTube videos of the Interior Minister.

Then wonder how politicians elsewhere will handle similar events.

Are [local]* viewers ready for ‘Camera Café’?

So asks Rica Arevalo of Inquirer.net

“‘Camera Café,’ is a TV series (Read: mainstream media ), an episode of which "runs from three and a half to five minutes".

I'd like to think that the better question is: Is Camera Cafe ready for YouTube viewers/producers?



* meaning, Manila

49th Grammy Awards: Does anyone under age 30 care?

Larry Katz noted that "CD sales are tumbling. Record stores are closing. More and more fans choose to download single songs for 99 cents (if they pay at all) instead of buying $15 CDs." But the Grammys "rolled on as usual at the Staples Center" in LA.

I suspect the kids just needed to key in Grammy 2007 in YouTube or Google Video to enjoy the event.