I’m a 21st Century Tool!
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Flight or Invisibility
This clip from Heros would be a fun way to start a conversation about questioning, right/wrong answers etc. with some teachers or students.Yes, I know it’s not perfect but it’s a decent start. On the technical side, I had no idea you could do this on Hulu. A nice feature.
If it seems like playing . . .
If it seems like I’m playing lately it is because I am. The last week or so has been an exploration of all sorts of fairly odd things. Markov chains, Twitterbots, McRibsStrangely, McRibs and I have coincided before., photo walks to name a few items. These are easy things to dismiss as trivial. It’s not necessarily obvious how these strange wanderings connect back to outcomes that other people may want or how they mesh with the idea of online learning at VCU. I believe that’s because we’ve created a belief that (in many things) we know both where we are (point A) and where want to go (point B) and that whatever gets us between these two points most “efficiently” is the best path. I’m going to try to both justify the value of a wandering path by pulling in pretty disparate examplesAll the links are from my Diigo links rather than looked up for this post. I mention that because it’s an example of what I mean by seemingly aimless wanderings coming together at points in time. from time/space with some recent examples of these wanderings coming to fruition. Similar patterns of over-narrowing happen in lots of areas. People tend to think they know lots of things they don’t.It could be that my belief that we don’t know what […]
Phone Call to the 14th Century
Via This American Life I bring you “Phone Call to the 14th Century” (at the 26:34 mark).There’s a link to a version on the Kasper Hauser website but it isn’t nearly as good in my opinion. An opinion that may be shaped by the fact that I can still recite the intro to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in Old English and still remember the teacher that made me memorize it with disgust and loathing. Basic idea for those of you who have yet to listen- it’s a game show based on calling a hut in the 14th century and imparting as much key wisdom as you can in one minute. Such a simple idea and such potential for a history classroom. Simply remove 14th century and make your call as specific as you’d like (for instance the Aztecs pre-Conquistadors). Make your time longer or shorter, but keep the time pressure on or it’ll lose focus quickly. Students have to analyze the civilization at the time and think of all the things that might help that civilization, then it’s a matter of prioritizing them. I’d have them make the calls as actual recordings and then make it into a real game show. I’d probably have them categorize their main points and justify them in writing. Judges (teachers, parents, previous winners?) would judge […]
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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!