As I conduct my content analysis of media literacy definitions, I think I’ll start with Richard Lanham. In The Electronic Word, he points to rhetoric as the appropriate field of study in this era of the network: “This revival of our traditional paideia includes those parts of contemporary literary criticism and cultural studies […]

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About Scholastic: News
Finally got around to reading Education Week for September 20 and found this article concerning Scholastic’s decision to pull the classroom materials they had created to accompany the controversial ABC TV drama, The Path to 9/11.
Here’s the intersection of media literacy and documentary film: ABC maintained that their film was a fictionalized version […]

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I got to the section in the Getting Started book about logging and capturing clips and decided to hook up the camera and get started.  It was relatively easy to figure out how to mark clips and then capture them.  I was a little confused with the way it automatically names the next clip once […]

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My new computer was waiting for me when I got home.  I was a little concerned about the big hole in the side of the box but all seems to be fine.  True to all the Macs I’ve ever used, this was easy…got it up and running in just a few minutes.  I’m installing Final […]

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Malcolm Knowles, informal adult education, self-direction and andragogy
“His work was a significant factor in reorienting adult educators from educating people to helping them learn.” Knowles 1950: 6.
I know this makes me a nerd, but when I got home at 9:30, I popped in the third Monterey Pop DVD and my husband and I […]

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The Criterion Collection: Monterey Pop
From the publishers of the Monterey Pop DVD set, an amazing website about the concert including full text versions of articles written about the festival within days of the event.  Lots of interesting stories of who was there and who wasn’t and why…several musicians were having issues with pot charges and […]

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Water Test Procedure

At home, do the sodium thiosulfate test. Check kit for equipment and data sheets.
At the dock, hang the thermometer out of the sun to take air temperature.
Complete the front of the data sheet.
Use the secchi disk to record water clarity and water depth.
Use the bucket to collect a water sample. Place […]

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Normally, my location is probably of no interest to anyone reading this blog. But, this post is all about location. I am sitting on my dock, which reaches out into Morris Creek, a fresh water tidal creek along which my husband and I own a piece of property. I want to record my […]

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Quieter Lives for 60’s Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn’t Faded
From The New York Times, an article about the Weather Underground.  I was particularly interested in the quote late in the article from Brian Flanagan.  He did appear to be more “rueful” than the others in the film, something he says isn’t a true portrayal.  […]

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I watched this documentary, directed and produced by Sam Green, yesterday. My husband and I both agreed that while we remembered the group–and in particular I remembered knowing that some of them had blown themselves up in Greenwich Village–we did not remember how active they had been in bombing various buildings. I suppose […]

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