Howard Rheingold's Vlog

Patrick Meier: Crisis Mapping and Ushahidi

howard@rheingold.com (Howard Rheingold) — 2009-05-24T21:42:00-08:00

Patrick Meier talks about deploying mobile and web tools to enable citizen reporters to give early warning about human rights violations: “crisis mapping.”

Howard’s Dream Office

howard@rheingold.com (Howard Rheingold) — 2009-03-31T01:59:00-08:00

An audiovisual inspection of the way I’ve reworked the boundaries between work, plan, mind, art, office, studio. Costarring Garuda, Barong, Ganesh, Gumby, my mother, gnomes, painted shoes, painted spiderwebs, books, computer screens, cthonic spirits. Pixels, plywood, alabaster, acrylic.

Network Literacy Part Two: Sarnoff, Metcalfe, Reed’s Laws

howard@rheingold.com (Howard Rheingold) — 2009-02-27T23:26:00-08:00

The second in a series about network literacy. The value of networks shifts as they scale, and as the networks accomodate human social activity as well as interconnection of machines.

Network literacy, Part one: How the Internet’s architecture democratized innovation

howard@rheingold.com (Howard Rheingold) — 2009-02-23T03:48:00-08:00

Understanding how networks work is an essential 21st century literacy. The first in a series of videos about how structure and dynamics of networks influences political freedom, economic wealth creation, and participation in the creation of culture. This introduces the importance of understanding networks and explains how the underlying technical architecture of the Internet supports the freedom of network users to innovate.

Howard’s Garden

howard@rheingold.com (Howard Rheingold) — 2009-01-24T01:30:00-08:00

Yes, I am online most of the time I’m at home. What cyberpeople don’t see is that for much of that time, I’m sitting in my garden. This 7 1/2 minute video is a quick look at a year in my garden.

Vernacular video

howard@rheingold.com (Howard Rheingold) — 2008-10-10T03:44:00-08:00

Inexpensive digital cameras, laptop editing, and network distribution have detonated an explosion of vernacular video, from YouTube to Open Courseware. This is a broad look at the ways video vernaculars are changing pop culture—and a hint of changes to come in education. Six and a half minutes.

Chilean schoolchildren smartmob for better education: The Penguin Revolution

howard@rheingold.com (Howard Rheingold) — 2008-09-18T22:22:00-08:00

On September 7, in Santiago Chile, I interviewed Luis Ramirez and Paloma Baytelman about "the penguin revolution" -- Chilean schoolchildren used social media in 2006 to organize widespread protests against underfunded public schools.

Social Media Classroom/Co-laboratory Screencast

howard@rheingold.com (Howard Rheingold) — 2008-08-20T01:35:00-08:00

An eight minute description and preview of the Social Media Classroom/Co-laboratory.

Why teach about social media?

howard@rheingold.com (Howard Rheingold) — 2008-08-15T21:52:00-08:00

Robert Emery Smith Director, Technology Services, at Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning, has been making short videos of how teachers use the affordances of Stanford’s Wallenberg Hall. Here I talk about WHY I decided to start teaching courses about social media, using social media.

Social Media Classroom: Why use forums?

howard@rheingold.com (Howard Rheingold) — 2008-07-28T23:25:00-08:00

In addition to the how-to documentation included with the Social Media Classroom/Co-Lab, this is one of a series of "why to" videos, addressing the need for forums when many people discuss many topics over an extended period.