A claymation adaptation of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave by Bullhead Entertainment/John Grisby: If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4XXItJYFKA#t=37” Continue reading Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” in claymation
University of Iowa rhetoric professor Vershawn Young performs a reading of August Wilson’s work at the Iowa Public Library. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPPRdYUeOaM” Continue reading Vershawn Ashanti Young Reads August Wilson
A piece by artist Jason Simon uncovering the shocking and vivid production notes for 1980’s commercials including McDonalds, Schlitz Malt Liquor (Pabst Brewing Co), Mars Bars (Mars, Inc.), Pert Plus (Proctor & Gamble), and Pepsi (Pepsico). If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RP8Tp54SSA” Continue reading Production Notes Fast Food For Thought
Professor Michael Wesch’s presentation about youtube at the Library of Congress on June 23, 2008 created in collaboration with his students. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU” Continue reading An anthropological introduction to youtube
From Ted Talks: “Jamila Lyiscott is a ‘tri-tongued orator,’ and this powerful spoken-word essay celebrates — and challenges — the three distinct flavors of English she speaks with her friends, in the classroom and with her parents. As she explores the complicated history and present-day identity that each language represents, she unpacks what it means to be ‘articulate.’ If you want to use this video … Continue reading Jamila Lyiscott: 3 Ways To Speak English
Associated Press coverage of the passing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. To put this video in VOCAT. Use the following link (without quotations). “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J6xO4gtCJM&list=PLh_tr7knrAS22RMekeAZIa59-_voS3wQH&index=18” Continue reading Civil Rights Act Passed – 1964
American writer Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (a 2001 National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist) and Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity (a 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award). Here he delivers a TED Talk which relates to the content of The Noonday Demon. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & … Continue reading Andrew Solomon, “Depression, the Secret We Share”
A video by Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University that uses clips from Disney movies to explain copyright law. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=CJn_jC4FNDo” Continue reading A Fair(y) Use Tale
If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_8y0WLm78U” Continue reading Lewinsky, Monica, “The Price of Shame”
Via the AP YouTube Archive: “On June 11, 1963 Buddhist monk (Thich Quang Duc) set himself afire on a Saigon street to protest the government of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.” Continue reading Buddhist Monk Immolates Self (1963)
