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Blogs: The Perspective from Higher Ed Faculty and Students, Two Videos That Grabbed My Interest

6 June 2008 2 views 4 Comments

Always great seeing students explore videos as a way to discuss class topics.

Emily Shuki, a student at Ohio University and PROpenMic member, shares a video featuring herself and friend R. Devin Hughes. They provide a look at the ethics of paid blogging. I like to see students developing videos on topics of interest wrapped around class discussions. I’d love to see more of these.

As blogging develops, ways to manipulate the originally objective act into a profitable and potentially unethical spin opportunity…

We created this vlog for our Journalism 270 final project.

And, yesterday this video made its way into Poynter Online’s E-Media Tidbits and the New York Times Video | Bloggingheads: Are Blogs Bad for Us?, via Bloggingheads.tv.

Legal scholars Cass Sunstein, left, of the University of Chicago and Eugene Volokh of UCLA debate the relative merits of blogs and newspapers.

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  • Tiffany Derville UNITED STATES Mac OS X Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 said:

    Congratulations to Emily and Devin (and Michelle) for their vlog! I enjoyed watching it, and it is wonderful to see such work as a class assignment.

    In places, the music competed with the voiceover for me, but I might be unique with that. I offered the same feedback to another vlog yesterday and discovered that another person thought the music should be louder! Perhaps there is a generational difference with people’s abilities to tune certain things out.

    # 6 June 2008 at 7:00 pm
  • Robert UNITED STATES Windows Vista Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 (author) said:

    :o ) I hear ya’, Tiffany. I have the same experiences. Apparently young people, like dogs, can hear sounds that we can’t … and hear through music beds. :o ) The video was a bit too staged, but we tend to get that on first attempts. Pretty good job for a first try and more thought out than most, I believe.

    The juxtaposition of Emily & Devin vs. Sunstein & Volokh offers more on that different perspective of student vs. faculty views of what makes good video. I fear students might find some of the Bloggingheads.tv videos a bit dry. But, they probably find me to be a bit dry, too. ;o)

    # 6 June 2008 at 7:20 pm
  • Michelle UNITED STATES Mac OS X Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 said:

    Robert,

    Thank you so much for including Devin and Emily’s vlog post on your blog. J270 is our Intro to PR class and I thought it might be fun to incorporate what students have been learning about new media into final projects (though there were some traditional options available as well). Students who did choose to create blog/vlog posts were invited to post them either on Kelli’s PRosintraining.com or on PROpenMic. You’ll likely be seeing more over the weekend as they are due next Monday.

    Tiff,

    I have to disagree. I love the music, I felt like it really added to their presentation–and I’m old!

    # 6 June 2008 at 10:56 pm
  • Tiffany Derville Mac OS X Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 said:

    Michelle,

    I hope my comment about the volume of the music does not take away from the sentiment that I think the video is excellent. I just want to say again that I think this is excellent class work, and it showcases your innovative teaching. Way to go!

    Tiffany

    # 7 June 2008 at 1:36 am