College Kids Today on You Tube - Thing #21

Thanks to Leslie Y., who spent two hours Urban Planeting (why can't it be a verb just like "googling?") with some Como folks today, I took the time to add a new section to my webpage called "Helpful Blogs." I included Dr. Scott McLeod's blog, "Dangerously Irrelevant," to the section (thank you Ruth W. for reminding me of the name), along with several consumer-related blogs. While I was poking around DI, I noticed a video Dr. McLeod recommended which was produced by a Cultural Anthropology professor and his students using "digital ethnography." I was very intrigued by its subject matter: How do today's college kids spend their time, and how do their choices impact their future? I was also very entertained by the technique used to present the info. It turns out the students who collaborated on the video used Google docs to compile and edit the info: 200 students made 367 edits to one document. I was so impressed with the video I decided to post it here. It's around 4 minutes long, but is well worth the view time.

The following description of the video was taken from You Tube: "A short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University."