Comments on: [Anthropology] Michael Wesch: Toward an Ethnography of YouTube http://el-oso.net/blog/archives/2008/02/08/michael-wesch-toward-an-ethnography-of-youtube/ An Irreverent Look at the Glocalized World Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Melanie http://el-oso.net/blog/archives/2008/02/08/michael-wesch-toward-an-ethnography-of-youtube/comment-page-1/#comment-228324 Melanie Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:25:08 +0000 http://el-oso.net/blog/archives/2008/02/08/michael-wesch-toward-an-ethnography-of-youtube/#comment-228324 Wonderfully said. And the students really love this, too. I've shown these videos to three of my classes now to much great discussion and far more willingness to explore social and participatory media. It's so emergent right now - the classroom is one of the spaces where things are really sizzling. Especially for those of us fortunate enough to be working in computer labs. I told the students I don't use a textbook because everything they put into a textbook will be old news by the time its published. The stuff I want them to learn about is happening right NOW. Their reading for next week may be a blog post somebody has yet to write. This is where we're at. And I like this place a lot. Wonderfully said. And the students really love this, too. I’ve shown these videos to three of my classes now to much great discussion and far more willingness to explore social and participatory media.

It’s so emergent right now – the classroom is one of the spaces where things are really sizzling. Especially for those of us fortunate enough to be working in computer labs.

I told the students I don’t use a textbook because everything they put into a textbook will be old news by the time its published. The stuff I want them to learn about is happening right NOW.

Their reading for next week may be a blog post somebody has yet to write. This is where we’re at. And I like this place a lot.

]]> By: Xolo http://el-oso.net/blog/archives/2008/02/08/michael-wesch-toward-an-ethnography-of-youtube/comment-page-1/#comment-228323 Xolo Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:36:23 +0000 http://el-oso.net/blog/archives/2008/02/08/michael-wesch-toward-an-ethnography-of-youtube/#comment-228323 It took you this long to figure out that anthropologists are cool? It took you this long to figure out that anthropologists are cool?

]]>