Posted on February 26th, 2007 by bookwyrmish
Oral storytelling. Written story (including recording of many originally spoken tales). Motion pictures. Animation. Live broadcasting. Video.
Transmutation isn’t quite the word for it. Neither is transformation. Nor evolution. I settled for “Generations.” We don’t discard older formats when we add a new one to our story-telling heritage.
Now, the power of [...]
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Filed under: Avatar, Cool Stuff I Found To Share, Machinima, Second Life, Storytelling, Web3D, media, web3-d
Posted on February 17th, 2007 by bookwyrmish
I can’t resist pointing to this New York Times article, having just blogged about censorship in the previous post.
A book wins the prestigious Newbery Medal award. It is “The Higher Power of Lucky,” by Susan Patron.
It becomes controversial because it uses an anatomically correct word. This word use is fitting with a theme [...]
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Filed under: censorship, ethics, journalism, media
Posted on January 14th, 2007 by bookwyrmish
We’re enjoying having Rand Whipple, master mind behind Box of Light Theatre, spending mornings with us for two weeks as “artist in residence” at our K-8 school, supporting our all school thematic study. Our thematic study this year builds on our previous year’s thematic study, and reflects our diversity initiative (there is a whoooole lot [...]
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Filed under: My Middle School Tech Class, Tech Among Teachers, ethics, media
Posted on January 3rd, 2007 by bookwyrmish
Turns out, that’s a very good question. Better than you might think.
I’ve found this wonderful link to a series of “pictures that lie.” (I’ve been getting a feed on the newly added bookmarks of del.icio.us user LibrarianEdge and this site was added by LibrarianEdge today–Thanks!). I’m extremely excited, because I was looking [...]
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Filed under: Cool Stuff I Found To Share, My Middle School Tech Class, critical_thinking, ethics, journalism, media
