Interview with the Student "Homework Artist": Podcast
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Amy, the student who made the YouTube grammar lesson, was nice enough to give me ten minutes of her time on the first night of our Lunar New Year holiday.
I recorded our talk on Skype (which she downloaded for the occasion), played with GarageBand a bit, and uploaded it to Podomatic. (I’ll have to figure out how to fade volume in and out for intro loops later.)
It’s a ten minute chat about why she chose YouTube, why she likes it better than textbooks, why she thought doing this was not okay for school (very interesting, that), how family members helped her do this, how fast she did it, her creative whims along the way, and–I loved this part–how sensitive she is to the importance of audience.
Let’s see if this works. It should be just below….
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[...] Have I mentioned I’m amazed? I want to interview this girl about her attitude while she made this. I mean, it’s grammar, for crying out loud. But it seems not to be, in her hands.Maybe she’ll agree to a Skypecast interview. Hope so. [Update: She did. It’s here.] [...]
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