A college level YouTube video class about using YouTube video!

It had to move in this direction sooner of later. A YouTube video of a class about YouTube.

Half the class is asked to do a post, and half the class have to respond to it using a YouTube video. It is a college level class at Pitzer College, Claremont, California and the class is called “Learning From YouTube.”

And since this is an actual class assignment, you can track the students’ assignments by viewing 49 videos –as of today. They will also lean such things as video press releases. The class is taught by media studies prof. Alexandra Juhasz.

It’s easy to be cynical, but when you look at the pace at which social media is moving, and how unprepared or ignorant graduates are when entering the media and marketing today, it is commendable to see these kinds of hands-on approaches.

In the age where the social media press release, the viral video, text messaging and that thing called ‘folksonomy’ is making antecedents predecessors like the block-quote press release, the 30-second spot and email obsolete, the digital classroom is worth experimenting with.

Next up: “Learning from Facebook” and “Learning from Delicious?”