Last week we did youtube together with our classmates.
Here is the youtube vdo from our 25 classmates.
The power of what we made was to do it together with 25 people to create youtube vdo about us.
It took us together in about 4-5 hours with all concepts of storyboard, research, and all workload.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yguo--mGcw
Heidi, one of our classmates, spent 7-8 hours on editing this vdo. I need to give her the credit on that.
Besides that, I would like to give credit to ChiChi's husband who came all the way to shoot VDO for us professionally.
As for my reflection on youtube blog post, I believe that youtube is such a great vdo library for students everywhere in the world to do their research. I consider youtube as VDO world library which is great source for students, and professionals.Youtube, to me, is like Wikipedia of VDO. However, youtube might not have references in complete sense. Wikipedia is gathered by different editors and writers whereas youtube is done by the owner of that youtube account or a small group of people without the work being edited and refined like Wikipedia.
When we look at youtube VDO library, the greatest benefits of youtube are as follows:
1) it is a great place to inform the world about vdo. Like in our case, we are able to put together Pepperdine Leadership vdo and release to the whole world of international community. Everyone in every corner of the world who has access to the Internet can see our classmates' face in our VDO. Without youtube, we will have a hard time trying to release the influential VDO to the world. Of course there are other providers like VIMEO but that is less popular with number of viewers.
2) Youtube is free media tool. If we look at cost of social media, we can see that it is free of charge. So, many corporations use youtube channel for release information with pictorial illustration. For instance, home depot uses youtube to release information about their firms and equipment, so does Starbucks.
3) youtube can be interfaced with other social media tools such as twitter, facebook, email, etc. By its interfacing with other social media tools and other email tools, youtube vdo can be watched by social network, enabling the speed of vdo release to our friends and families who can be reached by facebook, and twitter. The world now has changed with youtube's social media interface. People can watch things faster than before. In the past, we had to wait for broadcasting and vdo tapes to come up but not anymore nowadays.
4) youtube can be tagged with certain names, or categories which allow search engines to track and to search for vdo. As a matter of fact, when you search my name in Thai for instance, there are many VDOs popped up under my name. That's easy for people to watch me or find out information about me if I tag my name. Just today I uploaded my trip to see monkeys in Lopburi, Thailand, now my classmates who follow my blog can see if I cut and paste link here....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3NkX7sFK9Q. Now they can see how monkeys in Thailand are.
With youtube vdos, we can promote travel to Thailand or our culture. Youtube is not only social library where people can comment and share but it is the medium of cultural transmission.
5) For a person who looks for past news, they can find that youtube is a very useful source of news because it records the past news and documents it. For instance, when I want to look for news about Thai political crisis, I can go look at youtube. If I go to websites, sometimes I can find vdo but sometimes I can't. So, going to youtube is a place to dig out old vdos of Thai politics, especially when we want to compare domestic and international news on Thai politics.
6) For music lovers, youtube is a great place for people who have no chance to see broadway or opera to go to listen to rare music or to watch and to listen at the same time.
7) youtube does offer free movie channel for people to watch movies.
8) youtube offers embedded code which helps web designers/ bloggers to copy embedded code and display on their website.
Dark sides of youtube are as follows:
1) People with bad intent can release nude vdos very fast and a lot of time youtube does not sensor that part. I tried to type something related to nude vdo just to illustrate on my blog post, and what happened was that they asked me if I was over 18 years old. I clicked yes, then they let me see inappropriate scene. I am now pondering if kids pretend to be adults and look for sex related content vdo on youtube, what would happen to our society. Crimes .... etc. Although youtube has policy of prohibiting porn vdos, I see some contents which are not straightforward sexual action. However, it leads youngsters to commit sex crime. Please read youtube's community guidlines: http://www.youtube.com/t/community_guidelines
2) youtube, once posted, is released to the whole world. The world is recording it. Therefore, right of privacy and concern has to be considered. Before, when there was no VDO site like youtube, it is hard to find audit trail or track record but now things have changed. VDO can be audit trail to trace back about a person's background.
3) youtube does takes a lot of time to upload VDOs, and it has limit of minutes to be uploaded.
4) With youtube screen, sometimes it is hard to see which vdos are priority or should be seen first. The file collection has not been organized in a way that it is easy for viewers to view.
5) I found out that some vdos in youtube might be in false representation because the VDOs might be edited and changed it in a way to mislead people especially when it comes politics news or some news which are important for countries. Youtube can be used as a viral marketing of rumors to reach mass targets of audience within short period of time.
I believe that world is changing. That's why so many people uploaded VDOs to youtube.
If you look at Susan Boyle's song, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk, there are over 50 million viewers.
Or, if you look at Connie Talbot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWNoiVrJDsE&feature=related, you will see over 80 million views.
In my opinion, I do not think British Got Talents Show is that famous internationally. But, when youtube about the singers on the show was released, people all over the world recognize this show.
The international viral marketing has changed the whole world of communcation over the Internet !!!
Looking into elearning, youtube can be used as a tool to teach all of us.
For instance, I used youtube to teach students about building personal vision.
http://www.youtube.com/iamorapak#p/u/23/T--9g-XlqFA
The beauty of it is that I can teach the rest of Thais without repeating classes again just by uploading vdos. I hope I can teach in English and post on my youtube channel. It will be great if I can teach in English and translate in Thai as subtitle. I hope in one day youtube has merged with google translation and whatever I teach in whatever language will be translated and dubbed in other languages.
The world of education will merge with the world of entertainment via youtube.
Talking about edutainment, I refer to the term by my understanding...
education + entertainment = youtube
So far, youtube has youtube university channel. http://www.youtube.com/education?lg=EN&b=400&s=pop. I think this is a start of the journey of edutainment but it is not the end of it.
There should be more entertainment part in my mind.
Another part I like to add is that the beauty of youtube is the web board. People can comment on youtube vdo openly but the dark side is that sometimes people can be rude and silly, and worst we do not even know who they are. They can use username like h45fasfasdis and you don't know who that is. In the new world of social media,
we are allowed what we call " freedom of speech" but at the same time many social criminals can get away without being penalized. What are e-norms? In some days, we might have police on youtube. But, if there is such an e-police, then the world will not live freely over the Internet.
That's for today. Today is Nov 4, 2010. I just want to handle my blog post before this coming Monday because I have a lot going on to do.
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