Idea...."Rock my Lecture".

I was listening to a free lecture from The Teaching Company, available here. I first read about this company in the in-flight magazine on American Airlnes. I soon began to feast on these lectures from amazing professors and to fill holes in my understanding. Many of my current keen interests have emerged recently as the need to understand has become more clear. Truthfully, much of my knowledge feeding has been personal interests like archeology, physics and history. As A child of a chaotic household, I didn't see the relevance of much that school had to offer but I have begun to make up for lost time!

This was all leading to a point..I think, oh yeah

Have you ever seen the show, "Pimp my Ride"?
In a nutshell, they take a run down car and make it flashy with cool (in the eye of the beholder) paint and gear and in the end the vehicle is a rolling gallery of garrish bling. This show went into the following thinking.

What if we created an online community where educators could share their best lectures in audio form? These would be parsed in 30 minute segments and identified as to content areas. Then what if students were invited to collaborate in a "Rock My Lecture" model. Learners would add video and or pictures, web links and other media that ran concurrently with the audio, enhancing the experience. The finshed works would be submitted for community critique as well as critique by the original author. The best examples would be identified but all examples would be available in a searchable database. The resulting programs would be standards-aligned by design but more than an audio lecture. What if by tagging these items, students created natural correlations between different programs and content and that strands between cited examples like, the Kennedy assasination and the Lincoln assasination were automatic and this was a natural part of the creation process. The system would allow everyone to create and add their thinking but alongside all of this would be a student lecture functionality where kids could author, co-author and collaborate on new content. The system would offer open-ended creation with moderation by the community.

Does this exist? Is it something we should do? With anyone use it?

Help me mediate my thinking!

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Comment by Steve Hargadon on May 22, 2007 at 11:16am: Very cool idea. Very cool.

(As an aside, let me just express my frustration--not at you, Kevin--that the word "pimp" has become so commonly used. Aaargggh!)

Comment by Kevin on May 22, 2007 at 12:00pm: lol I agree, it was a young programmer that made the word stick here!
I love the children's television workshop with kids being real creators model. There is a prototype I built from a grant that we worked on and are still working on called Kan-Ed Kids Live. It isn't exactly what I described above but might be interesting. I welcome feedback, ideas and any cerebral support! Email me for the url and password..still prototypical. kevinh@essdack.org

Comment by Steve Hargadon on May 23, 2007 at 12:53pm: Kevin: check this out...

http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/get-started/get-started-educator/competition.php

Comment by Kevin on May 23, 2007 at 1:06pm: OK, this is it! Very cool. What I was visioning was almost exactly that but with a focus on collecting existing lectures and content from teachers, not necessarily from those who like or get or do technology or the web, in an effort to lure them onto the playground of web 2.0. I must dig into this resource and learn. I was thinking of a ning site that allowed for this type of collaborating between educators and students and whoever. This: http://web.mac.com/khoneycuttessdack/iWeb/KEKL2/Welcome.html was an early version of co-created learning opportunities and has me thinking of a re-design for web 2.0 I will send the password/username

Comment by kherron on June 5, 2007 at 9:39pm: Very cool!!! I am in the process of creating my science curriculum (which I would like to integrate into my SS and Lang. Arts units - which I am planning on integrating more into these units as well.) Anyway, I am just learning how to make wikis and was thinking of having students create one to "create" their own research page, etc... but I am liking this idea to integrate with it OR do more of this instead and integrate visa versa. Hope to get with you soon and hopefully could use some assistance in putting all these thoughts into action.