On Tuesday, April 22nd, I recieved the following e-mail message: The American Film Institute proudly announces the launch of AFI ScreenNation – an online video sharing community for middle and high school students across America. AFI ScreenNation is a place where young filmmakers can share their work, receive recognition and compete for prizes in ongoing [...]
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AFI Announces ScreenNation – New Video Sharing Community for Students
April 22, 2008 · No Comments · teaching and learning
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My Favorite Time of Year
April 8, 2008 · No Comments · teaching and learning
Coming back from Spring Break is one of my favorite times of year. Why? For one reason, the weather in Chicago seems to become reasonable, especially this year. Secondly, as a huge baseball fan and a Cubs fan at that, it is a time when everything seems possible. Lastly, it is the time when we [...]
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Rising Above the White Noise
March 5, 2008 · 9 Comments · teaching and learning
Note – This year, our school newspaper has asked and given the opportunity for faculty to share an article or an op-ed. This is my original that I am submitting to the staff for consideration: The world is a significantly different place than when I was going to high school thirty years ago. When I [...]
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IL-TCE Revenge of the Digital Immigrants
February 28, 2008 · 1 Comment · IL TCE, teaching and learning
Hall Davidson Kids brains are different. Television commercials shrinking from 60 to 1 second. Radio shrinking from 5 seconds to 1 second Ads in airports – kiosks run 5 second ads Get attention with short linked videos – then move to lesson with more reflection. We have technology to create short videos (6 seconds) about [...]
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IL-TCE – Building Personal Learning Networks
February 28, 2008 · 1 Comment · IL TCE, teaching and learning
On Thursday, February 28th and Friday, February 29th, I will be at the Illinois Technology Conference for Educators (IL-TCE) a session entitled, Building Personal Learning Networks. Here is a copy of the presentation that I used for the session: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dfj8qmj_37drcn2q9j Technorati Tags: iltce08 iltce2008 pln plc
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