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He made this video last October when he was twelve. He’d been experimenting with the bow drill after watching some YouTube videos on bushcraft and reading Survivorman by Les Stoud. He’d tried, failed, and wanted to improve. I’d helped him to edit & upload a video of him driving our right-hand drive truck on a dirt road, so he was independent in this video except for the uploading/tagging piece. Because he wasn’t old enough to have a YouTube account it was initially posted on my account. He had a response within 24 hours from a man in Sweden, giving him specific advice about putting pressure on the spindle and reminders to breathe. He included links to his own bushcraft videos.

I mentioned this experience to Will Richardson when he presented “How the Read/Write Web Changes Everything” in Victoria in February. This spring Nelson got his own YouTube account, re-posted, and got the comments you saw.

Dean, I love the lens though which you look at the video, and I viewed it differently after reading your post. My own thoughts were that he was flipping the how-to genre on it’s head, sort of a video extension of Ask.com. I would never have thought of posting a video requesting help. Will asked me recently if the answers Nelson got helped him start a fire successfully. Yes, the advice to shorten the spindle and provide air in the hearth appeared to help–that, and more practice.

I asked Nelson why he made the video and he said, “I just wanted to know how to do it.” This was not assigned by a teacher or facilitated by a parent, but I guess we have been doing a lot of modeling about being curious. To answer heather619, the tagging part seems to have been what brought comments, and I taught that, because others had taught me. And another point: I have taught Nelson a bit about thoughtful, encouraging commenting, so maybe there was some reciprocity there.

Final point, and I love this perspective: when I pointed out that he had almost 1000 views he said, “That’s nothing, Mum.” Funny, if 1000 people looked at your art in a gallery, that would be pretty impressive.
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