Vloggercon Day 1 Session 4

Vloggercon Day 1 Session 4

Educators

Teachers using video on the internet to add new dimensions to their classrooms, find an authetic audience for student work, and empower their students to beome media-makers.

Jonny Goldstein (jonnygoldstein.com)
Jen Simmons (jensimmons.com)
Bre Pettis (imakethings.com)

1. Jonny Goldstein
Multi-high school videoblog. BX21 stands for Bronx 21st century. In the Bronx in the 21st century everyone will be able to make their own media. This project is about youth in the Bronx leading the way in the citizens media revolution by creating video and audio, and putting it out there for the world to enjoy.
http://vemnyvlogs.org/bx21/

2. Jen Simmons
Teaching at Temple University - teaching film students multimedia tools - blogs, video blogs
Showed video made by one of her students who talked about how difficult it was do video blogging because she's afraid someone will mug her (Temple University is in a not very nice neighborhood in Philadelphia) and also lots of people don't want to be videotaped.
Question from audience - how do you get people to write well in blogs and vlogs from SF State prof who is going to teach blogging class who is an English prof - Jen said her film students were learning about storyboarding and she had her students discuss "what is quality?" and critique video.
what is quality video? if it reflects an authentic voice, then it's quality according to Jen.

3. Bre Pettis
http://brepettis.com/
Bre makes a video every week telling about what is going on in his Language Arts and Art classes. His students post to the blog too.
http://room132.com/
can make a connection to parents when they see videoblog