After a story about a friend’s grade school son using YouTube as a homework resource made the NYT a few years ago (and apologies for not being able to find it due to search limitations), I’ve been fascinated by the idea of web video as classroom tool. And not just for kids but for PhD researchers and adult learners alike, which is why I’m intrigued by Wednesday’s talk by Pitzer College’s Alexandra Juhasz.
“To Teach, Write, and Learn on YouTube: Publishing Theory and Practice On-Line” is being co-presented at Cal by the Berkeley Center for New Media in advance of Juhasz’s findings and videos being published in a digital book by MIT Press. Her “two-year project—to teach, write, and learn about YouTube on YouTube—raises the hows and whys of (re)presentation and translation of on-line experiences and analyses across vernaculars, audiences, and media”–and should you be interested in its implications for publishing, please report back.