Glen Hansard’s acceptance speech for Best Song was one of my favourite moments from last night’s Oscars. “Make art!” he said. Good advice for anyone, no matter who you are or what you do. We’re all artists.
Here’s Hansard & his partner Marketa Irglova singing the Oscar-winning song. It’s so beautiful it makes me weep.
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Archive for February, 2008
Make Art
Posted in Random on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Teaching YouTube
Posted in Digital Learners, Facilitating Online, Media on February 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What would a course look like if it happened through YouTube? Pizer College Media Studies professor Alex Juhasz did just that. She recorded all the class sessions and fed them to YouTube. In addition, all the assignments were either YouTube comments or videos.
Despite the “YouTubiness” of the course, it’s more than just a course about [...]
“Now I’m part of the community”
Posted in Digital Learners on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My 11 year-old son’s OLPC laptop arrived this afternoon, and those were his first words as he opened the box and pulled out the tiny green and white machine. That’s a profound statement about how he sees technology.
Remember when the computer was the thing you used to write an essay? Remember when educational [...]
Just give it a go and see what happens
Posted in Learning Design on February 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Clive Shepherd on instructional design:
“Those who work in the classroom can teach instructional designers a thing or two; they don’t spend endless hours in analysis paralysis trying to predict exactly what will happen at every point in their face-to-face workshops – they put together a quick and dirty design, give it a go and [...]
Should learners design their own courses?
Posted in Learning Design on February 15, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Radical idea. Mostly because I may be talking myself out of a job.
Participatory design is not new. In fact, it’s an incredibly successful model for the web. The whole idea behind sites like Ebay or Amazon is that much of the site is built by the people who use it. Wikipedia is a [...]
Remix Barack
Posted in Random on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a total political junkie. I have to admit that one of the reasons I’ve been such a poor blogger lately is because I’ve been sucked in by the American primary season (even though I’m Canadian).
I noticed tonight that Barack Obama’s web site offers high-resolution video footage that you can download and remix. Some [...]
Is teaching face-to-face … boring?
Posted in Digital Learners, Facilitating Online on February 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Although I no longer teach regularly in the classroom, I’ve racked up a few years of MST (mainstream teaching), but lately I’ve been feeling a bit ambivalent. I used to get so much energy from walking into a classroom. But now, I’m just not feeling it. It feels a bit like falling [...]
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