A new term has made its way into the edu blogosphere (such as it is): edupunk. Coined by Jim Groom, it made its way to me via Martin Weller's blog who also shared the excellent Edupunk video (see below). Edupunk spoke eloquent volumes of its potential to me the second I scanned over the word my RSS reader - in fact it got me so excited I started a public Google Notebook with excerpts from the discussion. I believe that destructivism and contrariness are just as necessary parts of the debate as constructiveness and concilliation. So, edupunk is more than welcome on the scene. Let's hope it gets a bit more traction - the Wikipedia entry may help.

All that Animoto does is turn pictures and music into slideshows. The people at Animoto are interested in finding out how educators could make the most of their service so they are offering free access to entire classrooms. (Animoto is only free for up to 30 seconds.)

Here's an interesting example of the use of YouTube as both object and medium of study. YouTube is somehow seen as not serious but when I needed to figure out how to use a new video editing program, that's where I went. Here are a few other ways in which YouTube has been very helpful to me in just the last month:

Daisy Whitney in her latest New Media Minute reports on a recent investment craze in online video How-To sites. Whitney focuses on the relatively mundane aspects of how-to: how to kiss, how to cook, etc. but a closer look at the online video space reveals interesting educational opportunities.