Web 2.0 Adventure

As the mother of two young adults, who are definitely addicted to youtube, I have seen my share of “humorous” youtube offerings, so it was fun to take a more serious look at the sites.  I explored two different youtube videos, both of which sought to show me how to download Microsoft Office 2007 Pro “totally free!”  While the ethics bothered me a lot, I know that my students are watching these all of the time, so I wanted to see something that most of my high school students would consider quite tame, and I consider “quite illegal.”

The videos were completely different, except for the common theme — one more of a Jing Project type of video and one clearly done in MovieMaker.   Neither was especially well done.  I also watched a How To video on baking bread, since I am currently addicted to baking bread, and decided that creating videos on youtube is not going to be my strength.  I just felt sorry for the lady, but knew I would be just as awkward and clumsy, if not worse!  And for fun, I looked at some of the Greek Week activities posted by the Georgia Tech fraternities and sororities and was relieved that it was really quite tame!

On Teacher Tube, I enjoyed two high school students making a commercial to sell software, or something . . .not really sure.  The title said they were selling software, at least.  I watched a surprisingly well-done video on an otherwise boring topic:  business education simulations for the classroom.  And I was quite taken by a young man’s effort to combine accomplishing a task in Word with a Creative Commons type video that included some of his own personal touches with music and graphics:

Now I just have too(two) much sound effects for one blog!!!!