Writing With Video

Maria Lovett, instructor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a documentary filmmaker noticed that her younger brother, still in high school, wasn't having an easy time getting started on a paper he'd been assigned. When she asked him if he could have done video paper instead, he said he'd have started on it weeks before. It gave her an idea for a video writing course. With Professor Joseph Squier from UIUC's school of Design, the course was developed. What do you think about video as writing? What is the role of video in today's classrooms and in research papers? Are "traditional perceptions of language" being challenged in today's world?