CLASS VIDEOS

THE MACHINE IS USING US (2007)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

A VISION OF STUDENTS TODAY (2007)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

U.S. PROFESSOR OF THE YEAR AWARD (2008) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBmDgMFAZTI

CROWDSOURCING,  TED TALK, VON AHN, CAPTCHA, DUO LINGO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ht4qiDRZE8

ARTFULLY VISIONING OUR HUMANITY, TED TALK, AARON KOBLIN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v4XxlfVk3o

AARON KOBLIN WEBSITE: http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work.html

www.JohnnyCashProject.com

EPIC 2015 (SHORT HISTORY OF THE WEB) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQDBhg60UNI

2020 VISION, KARL FISCH  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcL7e39jpIo

DID YOU KNOW 2.0 (DEMOGRAPHIC STATS) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U

DID YOU KNOW 4.0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8

STUDENTS TODAY 2015  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-zhQjkNvmo#t=12

WESCH ANALYZING YOUTUBE FROM ANTHROPOLOGICAL POV (digital ethnography) WITH LOTS OF CLIPS FROM EARLY YOUTUBERS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU

Re: Is Wikipedia for sale? by D.I. von Briesen - Wednesday, 11 February 2015, 12:18 PM

Wes- it's a legitimate concern. You can learn a lot about a topic both by reading the wikipedia article AND reading the "talk" page  (see the tab at the top of each article) BEHIND the article. This is a bit like reading the comments in a youtube video- if the comments are disabled, beware, and probably just don't even watch. It means those who put it out don't want to be questioned or discussed. If there are comments there, as much as they may be wacky or out there, there's much to be learned by those that make sense. If you take some controversial topic on wikipedia, like the wall that the israelis have built between the occupied west bank (well actually, well into it), and israel proper, you get this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_West_Bank_barrier The Israelis want to call it a fence. The Palestinians want to call it a wall. Wikipedia originally compromised by calling it a "separation barrier" - you can see the current name as it is. Here's the talk page for that article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Israeli_West_Bank_barrier Just skim it, but read a few posts in detail and you'll see how complex (and interesting) this can get. Many people work to subvert the idea behind wikipedia, and many others champion it, and there's even evidence that wikipedia editors are by and large  men- but my experience (and that of the web, if you believe the data) is that it's still one of the most useful go-to sites out there. I've started articles, had them deleted, and had others threatened for deletion, and along with this class, made many edits over the years- don't like it? Fix it. Here's a list of the kinds of shenanigans that have gone on:Appalachian's MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "en.wikipedia.org" claiming to be  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-of-interest_editing_on_Wikipedia Lest you be concerned that wikipedia is not trustworthy, consider the venerable textbooks you get in college. I know textbook writers and editors- they're human, and they make mistakes as well. Just look at the errata publisher will have to put out later... d.i. GIRLS AND CODING: Re: Teaching Girls How to Code by D.I. von Briesen - Friday, 24 April 2015, 10:47 AM   Thanks kendra- I did some work with Alice a while back- it was meant to give a more natural face to programming. What they found was that girls could relate to the object oriented programming side of stories (i.e. this girl has brown hair and a red sweater- both are attributes of the object girl). I've been unable to get my girls interested in programming, while my son is already going gangbusters as a freshman. Women are SEVERELY underrepresented in an area that is both lucrative and empowering, so I do hope we see progress in that. Based on one keynote i heard years ago, a key factor is a role-model father figure during adolescence that gets girls into some of the STEM fields - computer science specifically. d.i. Show parent | Reply