Monday, November 7, 2011
Anderson's ted talk
I really enjoyed Anderson's ted talk that we had to watch for today. I found it really inspiring how his vision of web videos could lead to the next big leap in global innovation towards many feilds (whether it be entertainment, education, etc.). I especially found his ending where he showed the video of the gentleman from Africa and how his tribe was generating new agricultural and cultural ideas (inspired shockingly from TED talks) and how Anderson managed to give those people a standing ovation from the audience from TED talks, the very peopl whom inspired them in the first place. I do wish he did more by showing web videos to illustrate his point. Not that I actually had a problem with him lecturing most of the time, but I personally thought his demonstration would have been more innovated (no pun intended) if he showed more visual aspects in order to help the audience gain a full understanding of how the digital communicative world of web video could shape future minds and inspire them to undertake in future acheivements. I guess this stems from the TED talk we saw at the very beginning of class, with the conductor that managed to obtain an entire choir rehearsal online. He not only discussed certain aspects of how this goal was accomplished, but actually described and showed certain details of the people envolved and how he managed to get across to certain aspiring singers in order to create the online orchestra. It was also amazing how he managed to show the audience future projects that included the same techniques he used in the last video that still remain effective. I just that that video really took advantage of the medium TED talks has for using visual asthetics to communicate more effectively to people outside the immediate audience (e.g. people watching the video instead of those inside the video watching live) and I wish Anderson's video would've taken similar advantage to that.
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Anderson's video really was inspiring, the connectivity that video portrayed, across the globe. Who knew this day would come? When people can have someone seem like a neighbor that lives on the other side of the world. It's pretty cool, I have to say. I too would like to have seen more examples of what he was talking about. Maybe we can give them that feedback? Maybe they'll respond with another Tedtalk? The potential for interconnectivity is great. We can be part of "the crowd" that is shining the light on a topic. And not just the arts. I was intrigued by the Jove website, for scientists. Einstein would think this is soooo cool.
ReplyDeleteI think that what you are talking about is really the crux of this class—how effective is talking about something versus actually doing it? Practice what you preach.
ReplyDeleteThat's the issue we have to confront—we can all envision how this stuff works, but implementing it is harder than it sounds. I have no idea how that virtual orchestra guy made his video (actually, I do...he hired somebody else to do it...but that's the point, it's so hard to do), so that is holding me back from doing something similar.
I think that's why technology always has more potential than it is widely used for. It takes time for people to learn how to do this stuff, and more time for people to get used to it, and eventually it seems "normal" but there is still so much more that could be done!