Wishing for an Edublogumentary
Chuck Olsen says he wants to make a blogumentary–makes good sense to me. Check out his clips if you want a visual introduction to blogging–students might dig this! The above comes via Kevin Brook’s Teaching Blog.
Chuck asks the question, “What’s at stake? Why am I making this?
Being a blogger has made me more observant and more informed. More than that, I feel connected and as though I’m tapped into something. I peer directly into others personal lives, sometimes seeing myself reflected and resonating with that connection. Or, I see what it’s like to live in another’s shoes: a homeless guy in Nashville, a college girl in Canada, a Peace Corps recruit or… Wil Wheaton. I begin to post something and stop myself - is this too personal? Who’s going to see this? I learn what’s going on in the world and argue with people - we are renegade microjournalists improvising and jousting, and sometimes creating a clamour the world can’t ignore. (See: Trent Lott.)
I am an evangelist about encouraging everyone to be a mediamaker. When you make your own media, (1) You bypass the filters of the corporate-owned mainstream media machine. (2) You become more aware, more observant, more opinionated. You realize what your interests are, you think harder, you delve deeper.
To me, blogs are the next stage of… something. The digital video revolution is making everyone into a filmmaker and documentarian, and blogs are making everyone into a journalist, pundit or memoirist. Video blogs are the exciting mixture of the two. Our culture is capturing itself at an unprecedented level. How is this changing me, how is this changing us? Is it too much - should we stop capturing, and just be? I want to know, and I hope you do, too.
He also points to the PBS documentary, Media Matters.
Hmmmm, interesting reading…
I wish we had the time to make an EduBlogumentary.
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