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College Credits for Watching YouTube
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by mtippett | September 15, 2007 at 02:27 pm
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This is funny:
Someone at Pitzer College let Alexandra Juhasz, a media studies professor, start a course on YouTube.In the class, students work mostly online, watching YouTube content, posting comments, and are encouraged to post their own video clips. The course will cover serious issues surrounding YouTube, such as the role of corporate-sponsored democratic media expression. The importance of the YouTube brand is far reaching, indeed.
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at 18:13 on September 15th, 2007
Many institutions of higher learning are using the emerging technologies of mass communications such as "YouTube"
blogs and podcasting in their curriculum. Bryn Mawr College has courses in English, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and
Computer Science that require students to not only implement these tools, but also to post their weekly comments and their
final research papers. Check out http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/ and the computer science department for current courses.
One student is attempting to form and mange "smart mobs", multiple
locale "flash mobs", and ultilize online social networking
sites in a social cause research project. "Is Free Cell Phone & Internet Services a Panacea to The Digital Divide?"
Check out this link http://www.idealist.org/en/org/167491-0
The mission of this project is to help provide free cell phone & Internet services to anyone & everyone world-wide.
The potential consequences of this project could help reduce the gap in the digital divide, enhance the lives of tens of millions
of people world-wide and lend to shaping future commerce.