polished Webcasts

Watching Snapshots of Effective Practices Primary Literacy Clips makes me wonder about who is left out of the filming. Are the Webcasts teaching use wonderful things that are really only practical in the digitally imagined world. I know the purpose of the videos are to help teachers learn new methods of teaching and reaching out to our students but I wonder at the practicality of the lessons. I don't know of many classrooms were there are not management problems going on. I don't see those kinds of challenges happening in the videos. The kids are so ideal. They ask just the right questions and even when they conference with their parents they are like little professionals themselves. Seeing videos like this make me feel like a failure. How can I do this for my kids? I try but when someone gets off task or has to use the bathroom or is missing mom because she is undergoing cancer treatment in Vancouver or??? How do I do it all. I know it is the beginning of the school year and the early primaries will take time to settle but I am still in awe of the perfect setting in every clip.
Then I think of the reading Critical Media Literacy in Middle School: Exploring the Politics of Representation by Jesse S. Gainer and his surprise at how his students really acted in front of the camera. Thinking about his revelation makes me appreciate the risk he took in the project he gave to his students. I wonder if his students learned more in the end from what happened after they made their own videos that were suppose to show how they really think they act without being stereotyped but end up stereotyping themselves anyway. When we (teachers) video ourselves to teach others I think we often remove the "interferring factors". We are suppose to be showing how it worksin a classroom setting but in the end we don't want anyone to see the distractions from the webcast lesson. So then I wonder, if all of these webcasts are so rehearsed are the kids just programmed. Are they really learnig? Can these kids make mistakes and learn more from making those mistakes?
Just taking a reality check.