I’m a 21st Century Tool!
Suitable for framing, blog badges and t-shirts1. Wear it proudly and let people know you’re preparing kids for the workforce of tomorrow2!
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We had a pretty interesting staff development team meeting on Wednesday. We met Lucas Krost the director of a local film company who’d won the 48 Hour Film FestivalEach team draws a genre (science fiction, horror, comedy, etc.), a line of dialogue and a prop. Then they have 48 hours to write, shoot and edit their film. and had their film screened at Cannes. So we spoke to him for a while. Lucas wasn’t a fan of school (if I recall correctly he was thrown out of five high schools). He told the story of how he eventually found editing and film work. It was a good story but nothing you haven’t heard in variations a number of other times. What was interesting was hearing how this group communicated and worked together to make a film in only 48 hours. So here’s what we did following the conversation. We drew a genre from a hat and got our topic- 21st Century Skills. We then had 48 minutes to write our scripts and 48 minutes to film and edit. My group of 6 drew cop/detective for genre. The hardest part for us was coming up with the idea which took pretty much the whole 48 minutes due to differing ideas as to how to attack the project. We never wrote a […]
Google Zeitgeist as a Writing Prompt
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“The Explorers”
How would you help your teachers to recognize the significance of this beautiful picture as it relates to their vocation? Photo Credit: Jennifer Zwick via Neatorama
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I think this image has everything to make it a winner:
1)Comic Sans Font
2)Bad clip art
3)Poor color scheme
4)Strange changes in font size
5)Random pattern on a prominent feature of the image
Well done sir 🙂
I plan to have it tattooed on my back once I find an artist who can really capture the beauty and the raw joy that is comic sans.
Don’t underestimate the taste of the American public. Head on over to Cafe Press and slap that artwork on everything you can find! 🙂
Comic Sans rocks, the rest of the world just won’t admit it!