Watching a documentary about the life of Anne Frank–Anne Frank Remembered–that includes powerful first-person accounts from Auschwitz survivors.   One of the women talked about arriving in Auschwitz on the train and the horror of having to stand naked in front of the German guards.  It went against all her values and she said that she […]

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I’ve been blogging about the movies I’ve watched but wanted to create a database as well.  I considered using the wiki but figured there was probably an honest-to-goodness database out there.  Sure enough, the Internet Movie Database has a “my movies” section where you can add movies and add notes.  In addition, you can share […]

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My first movie–Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary–is in the can.  Actually, it is is the envelope since I burned it to DVD.  I really want to upload it to the web but can’t seem to get it small enough.
I am, all in all, pretty pleased with the project. It definitely evolved.  I had originally planned to do […]

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Haven’t posted…been too busy working and learning to reflect. But now, as my (hopefully) last DVD is burning with my first FCP project on it, and I’m waiting for a load of laundry to dry before heading out for the day, I can sit back and think a bit. I’ll at least start […]

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I am feeling a little overwhelmed right now. Despite the fact that I have a four-day weekend ahead when I know I will be able to spend time working on a paper, Moodle screencast, and my video, I am in the midst of one of those crazy weeks that included a whole day out […]

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I am sitting in a workshop in a large school division that is really wrestling with technology.  In particular, they struggle, as many schools do, with how to provide access to their students but also how to protect them.  They have filtered anything with the word “blog.”  However, my blog doesn’t have that word in […]

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Sheet Music with Annotations
I’ve been trying to figure out how to create a soundtrack for my movie.  I downloaded some public domain sheet music.  Played around with GarageBand and want to explore it further, but for now, I’m just using my midi controller to play the music straight.  At this site, in addition to pdf […]

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Just posted about media literacy in a postmodern world. Browsed a few of my favorite blogs and found a post from Assorted Stuff about a report from Indiana University indicated that The Daily Show with Jon Stewart is just as substantive as the typical nightly news program.
For me, the most important part comes right […]

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This is really the bottom line, isn’t it? We’re clearly living in a subjective postmodern world. Yet, the culture of the classroom still reflects an objective modern world. If I have learned anything from my focus on media literacy over the past few months, it is that we simply can’t afford to […]

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I know that Ward Cunningham deserves credit for developing the Wiki software. According to the Wikipedia article about WikiWikiWeb, he began development in 1994 and published the first version in 1995. I wonder if he had read Lanham’s The Electronic Word, published in 1993. In Chapter 5, Lanham envisions what a typical […]

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