To Relieve Dry Throat

Alejandro Piscitelli IRED, Burgos

finally make time to post some things that were pending. Here we go.
24 and February 25 I went to Burgos to attend iRed , the First Congress Latin American Social Network. One of the papers I enjoyed most was the "The day they closed the Red" Alejandro Piscitelli ( @ Piscitelli ).

I looked very smart videos that used as an example to illustrate a concept we wanted to talk. So I've put as always surf the net to find them, and know who their authors. I tell you.

"Television is a drug" is the adaptation student Beth Fulton made from the poem "Television" screenwriter Todd Alcott ( @ toddalcott ). Apparently in 90 to Alcott will pideron a monologue on television and thought it ... "Well, if I were a television, what would you say?" And that is how did this copy. Alcott started using it at the beginning of his monologues as a way to capture public attention. Then it became part of a book, The Spoken Word Revolution , an anthology of poems slam- which claims that high school students interested in poetry. Todd Alcott himself wrote in his blog that the video of this young student is the best adaptation of the text. I also think the result is excellent. Look, and tell me what you think.

Television is a drug. Beth Fulton from on Vimeo . Piscitelli

showed us this video to tell us precisely what it represents is the dream of every teacher, journalist, publicist, political ... "Watch it, watch it, watch it. Only him, only him, only him. And the social networking world, the world of the inrush look at me. Social networks not accept that there is only a privileged sources of emissions, why can not pose a look at ourselves ? Or look at the Others? .

Then he showed us this other video that I leave and they just, I feel great. The title: Il était une fois ... les technologies du passé (Once upon a time, the technologies of the past).


Searching the net I have with the origin and the liability for this video : Jean-Christophe Laurence , a journalist (and anthropologist) who had to explain to his 9 year old daughter how it worked the wheel of an old phone. The story was that she would accept a movie with students of the College Saint-Grégoire-le-Grand in Montreal (yes, those we now call "digital natives") to demonstrate the technological obsolescence of equipment.

Following the success of this first video (it has more than 1,800,000 visits) have subsequently recorded another video in which the protagonists are older than 75 to 99 years Résidence of Outremont and facing objects such as a webcam A pen drive ... or IPAD. I leave with him.