I just responded to JJ’s comment about my AR submission to Life Eroding, wherein I think his project is a great example of authentic assessment. A real life project, real life consequences and real life connections. Now I see that Martha Burtis has posted about DS106 authenticity, where students are concerned that their work is… Read More: Authenticity »
As per @cogdog’s moving tribute and prompt, I am playing along with the crowdsourced Augmented Reality music video project, which will be produced by a class of 20 students on the Tokyo campus of Temple University. Life Eroding The sorrow I am trying to convey is about the erosion of childhood; both through the passage… Read More: Life Eroding »
Whoah, @cogdog blew up all our blogs (I am so honoured!) But like my comment when Jim Groom tried to annihilate his network, we are not so easily stopped. It was a busy Easter weekend around here. Again I feel like I missed so much LIVE #ds106radio and #ds106tv activity. I did manage to catch… Read More: BINGO! »
You know it’s telling when I ask an 11 year old what she thinks would be a good mash up and the first thing she can think of is Gollum & Stephen Harper I wanted to mash up Carrie with High School Musical. Or Sherlock Holmes with Blues Clues. Or Dora the Explorer with the… Read More: Gollum for Prime Minister! »
This is your brain on DS106Radio: Actually, the image was requisitioned by Dr.Rutherford and Dr.Figg for their upcoming teacher education presentation. They wanted an image to represent the 21st century teacher. I figure a 21st century teacher is focused on the learner and so that’s why I did that brain in the cloud. My inspiration,… Read More: DS106Radio Memory Lane »
Is it better to forget? Or remember? Does it make a difference? Would it all turn out the same? If I had an eraser I’d remove the part of my brain that decided to…
Otherwise known as “What would Spinal Tap call the Web Today? Week 9: Web Story Assignment where I go Meta. It’s a web story about the web. Excerpt from O’Really web page, above: The concept of “Web 2.0” was a clever take on the fact that the web can be a platform. Just as software… Read More: You see? This web, it goes to Eleven! »
On Tuesday March 8 it was the centenary anniversary of International Women’s Day. As such, @DrGarcia and I took over the airwaves of #ds106radio. @DrGarcia skyped me and I broadcasted out using NiceCast. After the tech glitches were ironed out, we were able to really get into the conversation. I archived the broadcast and was… Read More: My Darling Tuesday »
Otherwise known as the Four Icon Movie Poster Challenge. I know I am *so* three weeks ago. All the other 4 icon movie posters were fantastic, fun and done ages ago. Zeitgeist, I am not. Anyway, I’m in a zone of non-sleep creativity, so I have to strike while the iron is hot. Not a… Read More: Iconic precipitates »