Two youtube.com videos to recommend. One I heard about on the jill/txt blog, and now seems to be recommended all over the place: anyway, it's Web 2.0: the machine is us/ing us by Michael Wesch, at Kansas State University and you can find it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE. I already blogged about it on the Inquiry based learning blog, so you can go here for a little more info http://cilass.group.shef.ac.uk/?p=141
The second is recommended by Vivienne Bernath at Monash University, Australia, and it's from the health literacy site Media doctor http://www.mediadoctor.org.au/ It's a spoof doco about a new "epidemic" at http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=RoppJOtRLe4. Some of the commenters on Youtube don't seem to have spotted the spoofiness, but one commenter helpfully mentioned the spoof article in the BMJ that was part of the same campaign against "diseasemongering", so I tracked it down:
Moynihan, R. (2006) "Scientists find new disease: motivational deficiency disorder." British medical journal, 332, 745. (nb the date of publication is 1st April, i.e. April Fool's Day). There is also a follow-up editorial commenting on how the authors of the spoof were surprised how many people were taken in, and there are a couple of amusing follow-up letters in BMJ istelf.
The second is recommended by Vivienne Bernath at Monash University, Australia, and it's from the health literacy site Media doctor http://www.mediadoctor.org.au/ It's a spoof doco about a new "epidemic" at http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=RoppJOtRLe4. Some of the commenters on Youtube don't seem to have spotted the spoofiness, but one commenter helpfully mentioned the spoof article in the BMJ that was part of the same campaign against "diseasemongering", so I tracked it down:
Moynihan, R. (2006) "Scientists find new disease: motivational deficiency disorder." British medical journal, 332, 745. (nb the date of publication is 1st April, i.e. April Fool's Day). There is also a follow-up editorial commenting on how the authors of the spoof were surprised how many people were taken in, and there are a couple of amusing follow-up letters in BMJ istelf.
Photo by Sheila Webber: Plane tree in early morning, Blackheath, January 2007.
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