#20 YouTube, TED

In looking for video it proved hard to decide what direction to choose. I ultimately chose three types: a straight interview, a realistic travel vlog, and a user-friendly informational video from Common Craft. It all just proves the different ways the medium can be used. Watched a review of “Under the Same Moon” with America Ferrera, an example of straight interview on a topic.

Under the Gritty Travel category here is an interesting (but several years old) short documentary of biking in Iran on the 20th Anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war - by Bike2Oz (Iran to Pakistan) CAVEAT: Some explicit language.


Episode 07 Bike2Oz (Iran to Pakistan)
Uploaded by undercurrentsvideo


The last is this in the "chalk-talk tutorial" category. This is one of several Common Craft shows “In Plain English” explaining Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Social Networking, Social Book-marking, and Twitter. They can be accessed thru several different services including YouTube, BlipTV and Teacher Tube. They are wonderful ways to simplify a complex subject and I cannot recommend them enough.





I did check out a few other hosting sites, like Uvouch ("Are you passionate about something? share it at YouVouch." ) Another video host, Daily Motion claimed to be free of explicit content. Teacher Tube also works toward this goal, in order to be approved for classroom uses. But my all-time favorite is TED, whose opening music alone makes me want to suit up and fight for more intelligent and inspiring content. I will try to embed one of my favorites from TED...