YouTube extravaganza

Folks, we have had our last class, we shared our videos with the public, and final grades have been uploaded. Thanks so much for a fun semester, and enjoy your final youtube video products, as well as the other pieces of writing you have generated this semester. Good luck in the spring!

The Journey of Engineering Education, by Mark Carnes, Brianna Dorie, Yuchuan Deng, and Jing Chen


The Engineering Education Carol, by Noah Salzman, Preeti Rajendran, Jiabin (Emily) Zhu, and Bethany Fralick


Engineering Education Zone: by Meagan Pollock, Junaid Siddiqui, Sensen Li, and Roy Melton

YouTube tags

For those of you uploading your YouTube videos, please tag it somewhere with "engineering education", and "fall09-ENE-HP".  Those should both help us and help others find it.

Thanks!

Sharing fun youtube videos

In break today, we shared lots of fun videos you can be inspired by for your youtube videos.  Voila....

Videos

In thinking about the YouTube project, I came across this video that one of my friends had posted on facebook. It raises several interesting philosophical questions. I was truly amazed by some of the figures that they throw out there in the video, and thought I would share this with you all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKZEP-xruH4

What does YouTube think engineering education is?

The YouTube assignment, as we've mentioned in class, was inspired by the existence of 2 videos on YouTube.

The first was a result of the Digital Ethnographies project at Kansas State, and has made the rounds of the internet over the last year or two:

This video begs the question - what is our responsibility of educators who were educated during a different time to prepare our students for a different world than we were prepared for?

The other is this 50th anniversary video produced by the (then) Department of Engineering Education.



What would the viewer (in consideration of context collapse) take as a vision of engineering as portrayed in this video? Who are engineers? Who do they work with? How do they work? What do they do every day? What does the life of an engineer look like? The video only explicitly answers some of these questions, but implicitly and pretty problematically provides answers to all of them also...

If you search for "engineering education" on YouTube, you get these results. When you're feeling strong, or procrastinatory, you might like to browse them... In addition, here are the videos from last year's H&P class YouTube projects.





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What are your thoughts on these videos? How do they make you think (or think differently) about engineering education?

A Vision of Students Today

I mentioned this video in class today -- we'll use this as a touchstone to come back to regularly over the course.