YouTube U
Yesterday I wrote about the popularization of science and the role it plays in scholarly communication. Technology can make popularization easier than ever. One example is the proliferation of academic lectures on YouTube, as reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education (free online article).
Easier does not mean easy. The article quotes Michael L. Wesch, an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, on making online videos:
The thought process is very different, which I actually think can be very valuable. I mean we think a lot about how to present our work in writing, and I think when you shift into thinking about how to present this work visually, it actually forces you to think through things in new ways.
January 10, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Hi tara
I’ve been tinkering with ways of making the UCB content portable, searchable and browseable using a Grazr feed reading widget.
There’s a brief write up and demo at http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/012375.html that may interest you?
tony