The video of the presentation was given by Dr. Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography from Kansas State University, at the Library of Congress last month. This was tons of fun to present.

Timelines that helps you get an overview of the video:

0:00 Introduction, YouTube’s Big Numbers

2:00 Numa Numa and the Celebration of Webcams

5:53 The Machine is Us/ing Us and the New Mediascape

12:16 Introducing our Research Team

12:56 Who is on YouTube?

13:25 What’s on Youtube? Charlie Bit My Finger, Soulja Boy, etc.

17:04 5% of vids are personal vlogs addressed to the YouTube community, Why?

17:30 YouTube in context. The loss of community and “networked individualism” (Wellman)

18:41 Cultural Inversion: individualism and community

19:15 Understanding new forms of community through Participant Observation

21:18 YouTube as a medium for community

23:00 Our first vlogs

25:00 The webcam: Everybody is watching where nobody is (“context collapse”)

26:05 Re-cognition and new forms of self-awareness (McLuhan)

27:58 The Anonymity of Watching YouTube: Haters and Lovers

29:53 Aesthetic Arrest

30:25 Connection without Constraint

32:35 Free Hugs: A hero for our mediated culture

34:02 YouTube Drama: Striving for popularity

34:55 An early star: emokid21ohio

36:55 YouTube’s Anthenticity Crisis: the story of LonelyGirl15

39:50 Reflections on Authenticity

41:54 Gaming the system / Exposing the System

43:37 Seriously Playful Participatory Media Culture

47:32 Networked Production: The Collab. MadV’s “The Message” and the message of YouTube

49:29 Poem: The Little Glass Dot, The Eyes of the World

51:15 Conclusion by bnessel1973

52:50 Dedication and Credits (Our Numa Numa dance)

Q: What is wrong with teaching my students the same way I was taught?

A: My students are living in the 21st century, not the 20th! Access to information had changed; Learning can take place anywhere and anytime; Ability to reach the students with mutiple learning styles; Students learn by practising high-order thinking skills.

Big Question: Does teaching this way get results?

The answer is YES!   

1. E-learning
Learning that is facilitated by the use of digital tools and content. Typically, it involves some form of interactivity, which may include online interaction between the learner and their teacher or peers.
source: http://www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz/Media-Centre/Glossary-of-Key-Terms/

2. E-learning
Education offered using electronic delivery methods such as CD-ROMs, video conferencing, websites and e-mail. Often used in distance-learning programmes.

Source: http://www.mba.hobsons.com/glossary.jsp

3. e-Learning

The use of new multimedia technologies and the Internet to improve the quality of learning by facilitating access to resources and services as well as remote exchanges and collaboration.Source: http://www.elearningeuropa.info/main/index.php?page=glossary

4. E-learning:

Any technologically mediated learning using computers whether from a distance or in face to face classroom setting (computer assisted learning).

Source: http://www.usd.edu/library/instruction/glossary.shtml

5. e-Learning
Any learning that utilizes a network (LAN, WAN or Internet) for delivery, interaction, or facilitation. This would include distributed learning, distance learning (other than pure correspondence ), CBT delivered over a network, and WBT. Can be synchronous, asynchronous, instructor-led or computer-based or a combination.

Source: http://www.iqat.org/glossary.php

6. E-learning

Also called CBT (Computer Based Training). E-learning is a general term that relates to all training that is delivered with the assistance of a computer. Delivery of e-learning can be via CD, the Internet, or shared files on a network. Generally, CBT and E-learning are synonymous, but CBT is the older term, dating from the 1980s. The term E-learning evolved from CBT along with the maturation of the Internet, CDs, and DVDs. E-learning also includes Internet-based Learning, Web-based Learning, and Online Learning.

Source: http://www.thecatalyst.org/resource/2006/04/21/E-learning-glossary/

7. E-Learning: E-learning is an approach to facilitate and enhance learning through the use of devices based on both computer and communications technology, including personal computers, CD-ROMs, digital television, and more. Communications technology enables the use of the Internet, email, discussion forums, collaborative software and team learning systems to enhance the learning process. E-learning may also be used to support distance learning through the use of WANs (Wide area networks), and may also be considered to be a form of flexible learning where just-in-time learning is possible. Courses can be tailored to specific needs and makes asynchronous learning possible.

Source: http://www.cmapros.com/glossary.php

From Wikipedia:

Electronic learning (or e-Learning or eLearning) is a general term used to refer to a form of learning in which the instructor and student are separated by space or time where the gap between the two is bridged through the use of online technologies.

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From the above definitions, whether from a broader or narrower view, e-learning has the following features:

1. Flexibility in time and space;

2. using of ICT (computer,internet, any technologically mediated learning)to facilitate teaching and learning;

3. Emphasize interactivity between teachers and learners.

4. aim to improve and enhance traditional teaching and learning.

With the emergence of web2.0 technologies, there is a trend towards eLearning2.0, in addtional to the above, it also has the following features:

1. dynamic: the content, the way of interaction between T-S is changing and dynamic.

2. individualized: learners can choose content and activities based upon their time, space and personal interest.

3. learner-oriented: different from the trational instructional learning, eLearning caters more for learners’ needs and more self-paced.

4. Social and collaborative: the most distinctive feature of current eLearning is that learners can learn from their peers, experts or professionals both in and out of their organizations.

it is also noteworthy that there is an emergence of two trends in the use of eLearning:

1. Blended learning: which also called “Hybrid Learning”, is a mixture of face-to-face learning with online elements.

2. Live eLearning: also called “synchronous learning” or “real time learning”, enables students from all parts of the world to come together online at the same time with a tutor who led a learning session.

This is a book very useful for educators to learn how to use moodle. It offers step-by-step how-to instructions as well as suggestions, case studies and best practices for using moodel more effectively which i find most useful. Here is the download link for you if you’re now using moodle or intend to use it for your students.

Download Link:

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Using_Moodle_book