The post I wrote below about a new and exciting history documentary that is being made has inspired me to move ahead with a project that I have long been thinking about – taking Le Minh Khai’s SEAsian History Blog to YouTube.
Increasingly I find that I turn to YouTube for materials to supplement my teaching. And while I can regularly find more and more historical footage from twentieth-century Southeast Asia that people have uploaded, there is very little academic information, or scholarly interpretations, on YouTube.
That’s not good, because YouTube is becoming as important to many people as a source of information as Wikipedia already is, so it is essential that scholars/academics have their voices heard on YouTube.
With that in my, in the weeks ahead (hopefully it won’t take months) I plan on launching a YouTube channel for Le Minh Khai’s SEAsian History Blog so that some of the views that get expressed on this blog can find a space to be heard on YouTube.
To give a taste of what’s to come. . . here is a “teaser.”
They call me Le Minh Khai and I love history,
I write it on a blog and read it on the screen,
But my eyes get so tired from reading those lines,
Sometimes I wish I could just recline,
Sit back and feel the groove,
And get my history from YouTube.
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the uber nationalists will attack ur page! just watch ur back
Yea, someone already “disliked” the video!! Must be an uber nationalist. . .
” Khai ” nào ? hat kind of ” khai ” is your personal name ? khai or khải ?
How did you choose your penname ? Has it a special meaning for you ?
It’s “khải.” It comes from 黎明凱. As for where I got that name. . . well to explain that I would have to talk about my past as a secret quadruple agent for the ROC, the KGB, the Botswana Secret Police, and the Eastern Mongolian Liberation Front . . . and that’s way too long of a story to try to retell here. 😉
Way too cool. I never thought one day I would see a history teacher having this much fun in teaching while I have even more fun in learning. All the best sir, dance master 🙂
Thank you my friend. Yes, a video like this also helps remind me that I need to keep working hard as an historian, because my future as a “dance master” is probably not very bright. . . 🙁