Posted on February 26, 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 story is transformed [...]
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Filed under: Avatar, Cool Stuff I Found To Share, Machinima, media, Second Life, Storytelling, web3-d, Web3D
Posted on February 26, 2007 by
bookwyrmish
Our school has just switched from quarterly to trimester reports, and it’s an interesting change for me. As a “specials” teacher, I used to do student evaluations only twice a year, while the regular team teachers did quarterly reports. Now, the team teachers and the specials are doing trimester reports, and I am enjoying the [...]
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Filed under: Student Evaluations
Posted on February 17, 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 February 17, 2007 by
bookwyrmish
It’s a quandary. It’s a conundrum. Perhaps every generation that experiences a major, powerful change faces this same dilemma. Powerful tools can be dangerous, even when they are extremely useful. Gunpowder. Lasers. Cell phones with cameras. Cell phones, being fraught with danger? I’m not talking about brain tumors from overuse, either. The recent New York [...]
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Filed under: censorship, club_penguin, social, Tech Among Teachers
Posted on February 12, 2007 by
bookwyrmish
I haven’t taken the time to blog this week. I’ve been busy exploring, having conversations with colleagues, and trying to answer a question. Here are some highlights of what I have been doing lately. I was really excited by Christian Long’s manifesto, and his call for others to join him. I emailed him an idea [...]
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Filed under: My Middle School Tech Class, Tech Among Teachers
Posted on February 1, 2007 by
bookwyrmish
I’d like to give it to the girls in the third grade, and to a couple of Middle School students. I have been experimenting with my new avatars at Club Penguin and on Second Life, learning how to navigate in these virtual worlds. (I’ll have more to blog about them, soon.) I have to do [...]
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Filed under: BHAG, club_penguin, education, Second Life, social, web3-d, Web3D
