Tim Keller » college musical http://timkeller.me Thoughts on Technology and the future of Learning Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:14:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 YouTube talent http://timkeller.me/2009/09/12/youtube-talent/ http://timkeller.me/2009/09/12/youtube-talent/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:50:18 +0000 Tim Keller http://timk.co.za/?p=62038175 Continue reading →]]> I recall the first time I came across YouTube in 2005. Ryan Warzecha suggested we at The (then highly active) Cavern Today put our video content onto a new website called “YouTube”. My immediate reaction was somewhat negative. I assumed it was nothing more than a collection of barely funny memes, myspace-crazed teens, and keyboard cats. And, importantly, it was really slow on my 56k Dialup internet connection.

Fast forward to 2009 and I can easily lose an hour an evening on YouTube. In fact, Amy and I spent more than a few minutes this evening watching some very talented Yale students’ music videos. Amazing.

The talent of some YouTube posters is absolutely astounding… and most of them are in High School or College. When I was in school (not terribly long ago), Tech-savvy meant knowing some Python or Java, running Firefox version 0.7, and hacking Linux on the weekends. Today, the tech-savvy youth are producing amazing creative work through simple (often free) audio and video editing apps on Macs, PCs and the web. It is hard not to be impressed.

Here’s a couple of embedded videos from a YouTube-exclusive series produced by a bunch of Yale students. I think they deserve a watch. Enjoy!

College Musical

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

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