QR Codes in Schools
What is this thing? It’s a QR (Quick Response) code. This image actually links to a page that explains what QR codes are. You can also print this out and scan it (take a picture) using a smartphone and it…Continue Reading →
Education
Using an iPad with an interactive white board
As far as I know, there are not any Interactive White Board (or other IWB) apps for the iPad and it would require some serious engineering on the part of the manufacturers to create one. IWBs are dependent on connecting to…Continue Reading →
Asus Eee Pad Transformer, First Impressions
My new job give me the great opportunity to try some new devices and evaluate them for educational purposes. I’m taking a look at the new Asus Eee Pad Transformer. I’m going to evaluate based on a couple of criteria:…Continue Reading →
Media Literacy for Parents
I think it’s extremely important for students to understand the technology that they are using. Additionally, I think it’s just as important for parents to understand the technology that their children are using. Parents need to model the best behavior…Continue Reading →
Production is missing from the video in schools idea
There is a great post on Edweek about how video in education has changed over the past 35 years. There are some examples from wayback like schoolhouse rock and Grammar rock, and new examples like accessing great math lessons on…Continue Reading →
Teaching Copyright and Fair Use using Remix and Mashup
I teach a digital media and web course at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School that emphasizes the students role as media creators. In the course, I introduce many different media production tools like Photoshop, Imovie, and Garageband as well as media distribution or promotion technologies like…Continue Reading →
SMI 2010 Final Project
For their final projects, students are given much more flexibility. The thought being that at this point, they are equipped with the skills to be able to effectively create and write a story and how that story will be told visually….Continue Reading →
SMI 2010 Project 2 – Personal Narrative
Students create a 1-4 minute media project that presents a dream or memory. They write the script and record the narration. This serves (or can anyway) as the primary mode of storytelling for the project. The project is designed to…Continue Reading →
Using skills/content knowledge as soon as they are taught
Traditionally, we have educated our young by giving them knowledge or skills and letting them practice until we think they have mastered it. Then we test them on it and give them feedback about how they did. This allows us…Continue Reading →
SMI 2010 Project 1 – Silent, In-Camera Edit
The first project is designed to emphasis the importance of pre-production and introduce the concept of creating a reality through visual language. In groups of three, participants create a 2-4 minute script and storyboard. Stories are shot in the order…Continue Reading →