When I grow up, I want to go to Youtube University

Hey People

I was just reading Lifehacker and their top story of the day is that Youtube has launched their own educational protal from their website called YoutubeEDU featuring lectures from Universitys and Colleges from all over the world.

Going to have a propper look through the channels they have up at the moment, but they are part of lectures and even some full ones, all of them can be put on the ipods or Mp4 players as well for your convenience.

The Link is:

http://www.youtube.com/edu

Cheers Dudes

Games & Learning

Again from the Guardian Games Blog, this article links to a video of Aleks Krotoski interviewing Henry Jenkins on the relationship of games and learning. Most relevant probably for Steven but of interest to all. As I've said in the past, Henry Jenkins is a big name in game studies, particularly in the USA due to his Congressional testimonies.

Link to the video from this article.

For those students keen on viewing the film As Real As Your Life which was briefly discussed during the History and Analysis 3 module and was planned to be shown as part of the "Becoming Cyborg" lecture on the 12th March there will be another chance to view this movie on 30th March at 6pm at MMU as part of the Technolust season that is currently screening.

For those that have not seen the trailer for this short film i have embeded it below

This screening will be a double bill of As Real As Your Life and the Korean film I'm A Cyborg But That's OK

David Jaffe - Youtube Videos

Hi People

Alan has sent me a link on my blog for a selection of Videos created by David Jafee (Sony Developer and God Of War 1 director).

All of them can be found on his youtube account and just wanted to share then with the rest of the group to see what they think, he punts on videos like a Video Blog and ofter answers viewers questions that have been left on the video page.

They are rearly good and give you in insight to his life and current work load. you can find the videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/spidey999