An Incredible film

Bud the Teacher writes:

An awful lot of folks are finding Michael Wesch's The Machine is Us/ing Us to be a fascinating look at Web 2.0 and digital text. On the NWP's Tech Liaison listserv, Tonya Witherspoon suggested that it might be interesting for teachers and students to look at a transcript of the text without the accompanying visuals from the video. She kindly prepared the document, and Dr. Wesch approved sharing it. Here's
a link to the transcript. I'd love to know if/how you use it with students.

After I read the post and watched the video, I wrote the following coment.

Bud,

I hadn't seen this before. Thank you very much for pointing
to it. (Incidentally, in the previous sentence I first wrote sharing, which
I then deleted and inserted "pointing to") Since I love developing questions
for learning here are several related to this You Tube video:

1. Ask your students which screen they consider the most important screen in the
video. Encourage them to explain their thoughts.

2. Encourage your students to reorder the images of the video. I'm sure that Dr.Wesch spent considerable time arranging the order of this video. But now it's in public domain, as I believe he would readily acknowledge. How would your students
change this order. (You could have them use the transcript to rearrange it.)

3. If your students had to take one thing out of this video, what would
they take out? Why?

4. If your students had to insert one new idea into this video what would they insert? Why?