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The Progression of YouTube
Title: Progression of the Numa Numa YouTube
Description: Students learn how a simple music video released by a Former-Russian-Province Boy Band can generate a global exchange of ideas in the form of YouTube Videos.
- 2003 - Eastern European Band O-Zone releases a song titled “Dragostea din Tei”
YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdb0B3Ib2gE - 2004 - 19 year-old Gary Brolsma of New Jersey hears the song and records himself lip-sinching to the lyrics with his new webcam
A Japanese Cartoon Copycat Video is released at this time - December 6, 2004 - Gary uploads the video to internet video site Newgrounds.com
He calls it the ‘Numa Numa Dance’ - January 2005 - The video is seen by millions of people
- 2005 - Video sharing website YouTube launches
Gary’s Numa Numa Dance Video on TouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60og9gwKh1o - The ‘Numa Numa Dance’ inspires thousands of copycat videos… and is eventually downloaded over 700 million times itself
- Chinese Cartoon YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8skO9d6lg4
- Japanese Dance YouTube Video (yes, that is a man): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERzTfsFpSaY
- Chinese Dance Music Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH0sezjtBDo
- Korean Dance Music Video
- US Navy Numa Numa Video
- Balan - Sugar Tunes (Numa Numa) Compilation Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5y4wehtHgw
Integration: This evolution of YouTube is unique way to get students thinking about how IT brings about a global exchange of ideas.
Update: My classes made our own Numa Numa Video for the eInstruction makeover Contest!
http://eimakeover.shycast.com/contestant/372/
It was our first video production with mostly borrowed equipment, but my classes had so much fun creating the video!
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