Youtube is a large influence in all of
our lives. Weather you watch youtube or are on youtube it will
change your perspective on certain ideas. Youtube challenges the way
we see things and come up with different ideas. Generally people
will think of youtube as a comically site but, I personally use it to
get great ideas from different artists all around the world. Youtube
has made it possible for stop motion to become back in style in a
sense. Stop motion is when you make a scene with action figures or
clay figures that an artist has made by hand. In order to make a
stop motion you have to move the figure little by little and take
pictures along the way. At the end when you have about 1000 plus
photos you link them all together to become a 6second or so clip. I
find this art form very cool. It is time consuming and gets a point
across in as little as seconds. Youtube has done a fabulous thing
for artists, it has made it so that artists can use an old technology
to do art again and a new technology to get their art out into the
world. The Video linked below is an amazing stop motion done by some
students. This is not a stop motion with action figures but real
people. It gets a point across but it does take a few minutes. This
is a stop motion that most likely took these guys quite a while to
make. There were probably thousands of pictures taken in order to
create it. It is a good example of stop motion because it does use
the human as a type of performance art. Youtube is a great
technology and especially fort aspiring artists.
Videos are a great way for students to learn. There is no doubt that some videos are not appropriate for the classroom, but if we find scholarly videos that will make students think critically they can often do a good job expressing a topic visually. Many students learn better from visual aides in lessons and YouTube is a great way to use a visual example.
ReplyDeleteThank for the reply. I completely agree technology is a scary thing when it comes to places such as youtube. I guess I should have mentioned that in my post. Where there is good there is also bad, but since youtube became popular as I was older I had self control and I know form experience because of some students I know, if you do not watch or give boundaries to a kid they will find anything on youtube that they shouldn't be seeing. Not everything is made for the classroom but for all of the subjects under the sun there are videos for! I find youtube to be such an amazing tool.
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