My Students Rock!
I do so love my students' creativity and ability when they're set free to tackle new media projects about almost any topic they want. And if there was ever a captive audience of other people who would appreciate their work, it's ya'll. So I'm gonna toot their own horns for them. These are two responses to my recent music video assignment. Assignment simple: "make a music video refuting a stereotype you percieve people to have about your generation." Not much further instruction. And with cool results like these, why would I mess with it by giving more limitations?
Kristen G's video tackles a wide swath of teen stereotypes
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~keguggen/106video.html
Brigid C's video tackles the question "Is teen love real?"
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~collinba/106%20video.html
Why, yes, they are copyright nightmares. With results this good, someone's gonna have to convince me why I should care.
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I have a question for you
I have a question for you about this assignment, which I borrowed from you but I did have the decency to credit you on the assignment sheet: Have you ever had students who wanted to play to the stereotype? The first time I gave this assignment, one guy made a really neat video - consisting of a lot of footage from his Spring Break in Colorado. The skiing shots were great! But it certainly wasn't what I was expecting. His essay didn't get into why he chose to enforce the party-hearty image, and I explained to him that was the main problem. This semester, when I gave out the assignment, two of my smart-yet-slightly-attitudinal guys' eyes lit up immediately, I could tell that they wanted to make a wild and crazy movie. I've been stressing to them that, as long as they explain WHY they are doing this in the essay, they could go for it.
I hate having to worry about copyright. I read recently that Prince's lawyer brigade reacted poorly to a YouTube video of a toddler dancing to "Let's Go Crazy" - I think that was the song.