Re: [xmca] http://vimeo.com/groups/39473/videos

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

This puts me in mind of another interesting project which might overlap what
Andy and Jenna are productively fantasizing into existence. What about a
video "keywords" appropriate to understand cultural historical social etc
approaches to development. A cultural historical approach to developmental
science would be a catchy title in some circles.

Keywords in print would be bad, either.  I am up for an entry on "spirals of
development."  :-)

mike


On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Jenna McWilliams <jennamcjenna@gmail.com>wrote:

> And here's what I just wrote in an email to Andy:
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> In thinking about our recent conversation with Mike, I kept returning to a
> few really huge moments in the discussion where he said something I felt was
> extremely, extremely important. To me, those are the moments worth pushing
> out to the general public (i.e., the several dozen people in the world who
> care about mediation and CHAT). To me, those are the moments worth
> discussing.
>
> For example: Mike said that what Vygotsky _actually_ said was not that
> “learning precedes development” but that “learning can be organized in such
> a way that learning can precede development.” For those of us who have only
> brushed the surface of Soviet psychology, this is a big revelation and one
> worth discussing. What I enjoy about XMCA is being able to watch people
> debate these sorts of issues--if every xmca email was a long piece of
> writing that didn't engage in conversation with anyone else, I'd be just as
> well off if I just sat by myself somewhere and read all of the xmca members'
> books and articles. But it's the _conversation_ that clarifies and
> crystallizes things, the _conversation_ that pushes theory forward.
>
> And video can't do exactly what xmca can do, but it can group together
> footage of people engaging with a central idea, right? Wouldn't that be
> neat?
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> I really like the idea of organizing a semi-weekly or perhaps monthly video
> topic--for example, perizhivanie or LSV's use of metaphor--and collecting
> short video clips in which xmca folks weigh in with their thoughts. This
> could be a way to capture and share the ideas discussed in this listserv--to
> make them available to a broader public (as in, for example, newer academics
> for whom xmca feels too dense and too daunting). Of course, this may be too
> narrow of a focus for this group; I don't know.
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> Jenna McWilliams
> Learning Sciences Program, Indiana University
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> http://twitter.com/jennamcjenna
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> jenmcwil@indiana.edu
> jennamcjenna@gmail.com
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> On Oct 10, 2010, at 8:54 PM, Andy Blunden wrote:
>
>  Thanks for the promo, Peter, but I need to make a small correction: The
>> video of Gita is provided by Natalia Gajdamschko, and Natalia is working on
>> more videos of Gita as well. Gita is responsible for the whole process, not
>> me.
>>
>> Another issue. Jenna McWilliams has suggested that *very* short videos on
>> specific problems or ideas or issues, I mean 1 to 5 minutes, make very
>> useful objects for class or group discussion, and perhaps we ought to
>> concentrate more energies on collecting material like this.
>>
>> So! Anyone who would like to record a short interview or talk, upper limit
>> 5 minutes, is welcome to contact me via Skype, with their webcam at the
>> ready, and we can get busy. Not just me, others can do it too. Jenna? Almost
>> every post on xmca offers an opportunity for such items. The big advantage
>> of the 2 minute video over the 200 word essay is that a video can be shared
>> in a real and immediate way, in a way that written text cannot. That's over
>> and above all the secondary channels of communication that video talks
>> offer.
>>
>> Any takers?
>> Andy
>>
>> Peter Smagorinsky wrote:
>>
>>> http://vimeo.com/groups/39473/videos/14850621
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi, Andy Blunden has made available a video of a talk given by Gita
>>> Vygotsky
>>> (LSV's daughter) at UGA about a decade ago; the video came from a VHS
>>> tape
>>> provided by Marty Carr and JoBeth Allen, was converted to digital form by
>>> OIT, transferred via ftp through a website, and converted to a viewable
>>> format by Andy. This is part of a growing collection of interviews, etc.
>>> about Vygotskian research that Andy and others are making available on
>>> the
>>> web, including both archival material such as this talk and newly
>>> conducted
>>> interviews with current researchers from diverse continents. Andy can do
>>> the
>>> interviews from Australia via skype and record and edit them for public
>>> viewing. What a world!  Enjoy, p
>>>
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