Week One
Hello, I am Yuriah Lydon, an exchange student from Northern California. I come from Humboldt County, but go to school at University of California Santa Cruz, studying Robotics Engineering. I am taking this class because I thought it would be interesting and it fulfills a General Education requirement at my home university.
The videos I liked most of the student videos were "Independence in Latin America", "Caudillos", "Towards an Uncertain Future".
Independence in Latin America:
I really like the flow of this video. It had a very informal feel to it and it gave the information in a way that felt more like I was being guided through a museum as opposed to watching some video and having a disembodied voice try to tell me so strange facts. I also liked that the people giving the information were often able to give a bit of personal insight as these events had occurred in their home countries and they had seen the direct results of the Latin American revolutions. I also liked the way that each person did their own individual segment, and then they all came together to give a bit more information and bring all of the concepts together.
Caudillos:
I liked this video for pretty much the opposite reasons of the previous video. I appreciated the way that it told the stories of different individuals and broke them up into separate segments. In the beginning and the end, they did bring together the concepts of the Caudillos which still made the video seem cohesive, and allowed them to tell the stories separately. I also really liked the background music and drawings, as well as the way they had drawn out the important concepts for each story, moving the camera to show each one like a handmade slide show.
Towards an Uncertain Future:
I really liked this one for its content. A lot of the information presented was things that I had kind of heard of before, but was before my time. This video really brought the information together into an easily understandable collection that showed the sociopolitical turmoil of Latin America in the late 1900's. I also really like their incorporation of news broadcasts and the (I'm assuming) Political Science theory involving Exit, Voice, Neglect, and Loyalty. I felt they did a good job of expressing these ideas in a purely contextual sense, but I would love to hear about the poli-sci theory that these, as well as the chart that was shown involving these, is based on.
The videos I liked most of the student videos were "Independence in Latin America", "Caudillos", "Towards an Uncertain Future".
Independence in Latin America:
I really like the flow of this video. It had a very informal feel to it and it gave the information in a way that felt more like I was being guided through a museum as opposed to watching some video and having a disembodied voice try to tell me so strange facts. I also liked that the people giving the information were often able to give a bit of personal insight as these events had occurred in their home countries and they had seen the direct results of the Latin American revolutions. I also liked the way that each person did their own individual segment, and then they all came together to give a bit more information and bring all of the concepts together.
Caudillos:
I liked this video for pretty much the opposite reasons of the previous video. I appreciated the way that it told the stories of different individuals and broke them up into separate segments. In the beginning and the end, they did bring together the concepts of the Caudillos which still made the video seem cohesive, and allowed them to tell the stories separately. I also really liked the background music and drawings, as well as the way they had drawn out the important concepts for each story, moving the camera to show each one like a handmade slide show.
Towards an Uncertain Future:
I really liked this one for its content. A lot of the information presented was things that I had kind of heard of before, but was before my time. This video really brought the information together into an easily understandable collection that showed the sociopolitical turmoil of Latin America in the late 1900's. I also really like their incorporation of news broadcasts and the (I'm assuming) Political Science theory involving Exit, Voice, Neglect, and Loyalty. I felt they did a good job of expressing these ideas in a purely contextual sense, but I would love to hear about the poli-sci theory that these, as well as the chart that was shown involving these, is based on.
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