Comments on: Of BLC and Books http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/of-blc-and-books/ Learning with the Read/Write Web Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:36:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mary Marotta http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/of-blc-and-books/comment-page-1/#comment-4682 Mary Marotta Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:10:17 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/of-blc-and-books/#comment-4682 Hi - I attended an addtional session with Marco "Turning Classrooms into Learning Studios" he show a video "digital students @ analog schools" His students had graduated and made a movie about their colleges experience, they are teaching in 20th century fomat (lecture, notes, not engaging students). So, they met online an put togeter a movie. Marco did not have the link in class but I found it http://homepage.mac.com/dvchelo/page1/page3/page3.html The level of creativity is amazing, notice the credits at the end using iChat the students (Jim, John, Juan, Chung and Chaim) This movie summed up the message at the conference and what Marc Presensky stated "its all about engaging the student". Watch the video! Marco did not plan on presenting the video but realized at the conference it was important to get the message out! Hi –

I attended an addtional session with Marco “Turning Classrooms into Learning Studios”
he show a video “digital students @ analog
schools” His students had graduated and made a movie about their colleges experience, they are teaching in 20th century fomat (lecture, notes, not engaging students). So, they met online an put togeter a movie. Marco did not have the link in class but I found it http://homepage.mac.com/dvchelo/page1/page3/page3.html

The level of creativity is amazing, notice the credits at the end using iChat the students (Jim, John, Juan, Chung and Chaim)

This movie summed up the message at the conference and what Marc Presensky stated “its all about engaging the student”. Watch the video! Marco did not plan on presenting the video but realized at the conference it was important to get the message out!

]]> By: Joan Vinall-Cox http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/of-blc-and-books/comment-page-1/#comment-4649 Joan Vinall-Cox Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:32:33 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/of-blc-and-books/#comment-4649 I bought and read your book. Kentucky has made a very smart move ;-> I bought and read your book. Kentucky has made a very smart move ;->

]]> By: Tracy Fowler http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/of-blc-and-books/comment-page-1/#comment-4618 Tracy Fowler Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:53:39 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/of-blc-and-books/#comment-4618 I concur with Curtis - those samples are outrageously good! Yes, the tech is cool (and I too want to know how the animations were created), but what's best about the movies are the story lines. The stories kids need and want to tell make the piece. When I teach digital storytelling 60-70% of the time and effort goes into working through the writing process, 10% is presentation skills, the rest is tech - there are the fundamental literacies! Will, congrats on the book sales! It's the best Ed Tech book I've read in 5 years! My web site linked off of blogs will soon be a blog! Thanks. I concur with Curtis – those samples are outrageously good! Yes, the tech is cool (and I too want to know how the animations were created), but what’s best about the movies are the story lines. The stories kids need and want to tell make the piece. When I teach digital storytelling 60-70% of the time and effort goes into working through the writing process, 10% is presentation skills, the rest is tech – there are the fundamental literacies!

Will, congrats on the book sales! It’s the best Ed Tech book I’ve read in 5 years! My web site linked off of blogs will soon be a blog! Thanks.

]]> By: Curtis http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/of-blc-and-books/comment-page-1/#comment-4615 Curtis Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:32:50 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/of-blc-and-books/#comment-4615 Will-Those student projects from Marco Torres are GREAT! When you get a moment, can you leave a note about how these were made (the animations) they're fantastic! Will-Those student projects from Marco Torres are GREAT! When you get a moment, can you leave a note about how these were made (the animations) they’re fantastic!

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