Castilleja "PeaceTube" Project

From October 15, 2009-November 15, 2009 our school community is going to be engaging in a little project where we find videos on the topic of "Peace" over at YouTube. The idea is to collect relevant videos and then vote on our favorite videos during the first full week in December. The videos receiving the top 5 most votes will be played during our school's "Global Week" in early January of 2010. Below is the teaser video for this project. If you'd like to contribute any videos having to do with the theme of peace, please submit the links via a comment at this blog post and we'll be sure to include them in the voting in December (we'll credit you as well during the process).

Peace is our theme of our Global Week celebration in early January...please think of 'peace' as an extremely broadly defined concept as you surf YouTube...it could relate to environmental sustainability, inner peace, spiritual peace, historical peace movements, community building projects, etc.

MadV is back on YouTube with One World-HD!

I posted about MadV's original "One World" project as part of a larger stream of thinking on the topic of the Internet as a platform for peace, better cultural understanding, etc. I was visiting YouTube today when I noticed that MadV is remixing is "One World" project 2 years later, but this time in high definition. I'm eager to participate and I'm hopeful that some other members of our school community will consider doing so as well. How about you??

How can the Internet foster and build compasion, empathy, cultural awareness, and peace?

...it can't. But people like you and I can. We can use this incredibly powerful platform to do these things. You don't believe me? You say that the internet and its sub-networks like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Myspace and the like are nothing more than a way to promote "Me" and "I?"

Well, then check out the work of MadV over on YouTube. This is simply one example of the countless ways that people like you and I are using the Internet to foster and build compassion and empathy (or in the opinion of the skeptic, this is cultivating nothing more than pure narcissism). MadV posted the 40 second video below titled, "One World." This video quickly became the most responded to video on YouTube. Eventually MadV took the various responses and remixed them to create the second video below (a special thanks to MadV for actually returning a message of mine on YouTube as I had difficulty finding the original One World piece).

MadV's original, "One World," Video:


MadV's Remix of the various responses to One World:



MadV also sparked another project titled, "The Humans Project" where he asked the simple question, "What does it mean to be human?" People submitted responses and then he compiled them all in final piece. See the two videos below:

The Humans Project:


Compilation of Responses to the Humans Project:


Empathy and compassion or narcissism?