Someone asked me about Twitter but I can't explain it as well as the folks at Common Craft.
http://www.commoncraft.com/show The Common Craft Show is a series of short explanatory videos. Check the out the video on Google Docs, too. They really do make it easy to understand. So here is the Twitter explanation courtesy of Common Craft:
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Sunday, March 30, 2008
AHA Film Festival-Bringing it all together
I am attending the 5th Annual AHA Film Festival in Effingham, IL. If you want to see real world application of learning across the curriculum, you need to see this! Read about it here:
http://www.effinghamdailynews.com/local/local_story_060124856.html
I like this quote from the article: “We have guests coming in from all over the country. The film festival is usually sold out. By the end, we have people calling up and saying, ‘You gotta get me a ticket!’” he said. “It’s wonderful that the communities support us and fill up a theater to watch kids’ homework, basically.
Joe Fatheree and co-teacher Craig Lindvahl have prepared these students well. Students also realize that they have a role to play in making this world a better place. Tonight we gathered a local youth center with students from high schools across the nation to discuss the United Nation's 8 millennium goals. These students are talking about how they can use their talents to make a difference.
Media literacy, authentic assessment, service learning---all right here, right now. I hope districts across the country will follow this successful model of making it real and making it count for our students and teachers. I am looking forward tomorrow to a film training workshop taught by the high school students. Then, it will be time to enjoy the festival. Joe Fatheree also has other projects. You can read about his No Barriers project here: http://www.nobarriersproject.com/ We can make a difference and it can start with one person and an idea! Tweet
http://www.effinghamdailynews.com/local/local_story_060124856.html
I like this quote from the article: “We have guests coming in from all over the country. The film festival is usually sold out. By the end, we have people calling up and saying, ‘You gotta get me a ticket!’” he said. “It’s wonderful that the communities support us and fill up a theater to watch kids’ homework, basically.
Joe Fatheree and co-teacher Craig Lindvahl have prepared these students well. Students also realize that they have a role to play in making this world a better place. Tonight we gathered a local youth center with students from high schools across the nation to discuss the United Nation's 8 millennium goals. These students are talking about how they can use their talents to make a difference.
Media literacy, authentic assessment, service learning---all right here, right now. I hope districts across the country will follow this successful model of making it real and making it count for our students and teachers. I am looking forward tomorrow to a film training workshop taught by the high school students. Then, it will be time to enjoy the festival. Joe Fatheree also has other projects. You can read about his No Barriers project here: http://www.nobarriersproject.com/ We can make a difference and it can start with one person and an idea! Tweet
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Video Editing Online-Contest
ITVS has just released a new program that will allow you to edit video via the Internet. You need no additional tools. The people at ITVS are sponsoring a contest for students around the country to help children think about what they eat and what they are made of. The ITVS film, King Corn, is showing in select theaters around the country. Footage from that film and Getty images is available online at the ITVS website for the students to edit. They can also upload footage of their own. The process is very simple and challenges students to use higher order thinking skills for advanced problem solving. Their website can be accessed by going to the following url: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/filmocracy/ The project can be integrated into almost every grade and subject level.
If you are what you eat, what are you made of?
PBS’s Independent Lens invites you to make a statement about the politics of food. Enter to win the Filmocracy mashup contest. It’s easy!
Make a short film using KING CORN clips and footage from Getty Images. You can even upload your own clips and mix it all up with the Eyespot online editing tool. When you're done, check out everyone else's videos and rate your favorites.
The grand prizewinner gets $1,000 and a chance to be screened throughout the country, plus a KING CORN DVD, soundtrack and other fabulous corn-free prizes! The most popular and highest rated videos get cool prizes too.
Want to make the best film you can? Learn how with tips from the pros! Be a corn connoisseur, visit the KING CORN website and get acres of information about the crop.
Mix it up and make your statement about food. Have fun and good luck!
Contest dates: March 7 - May 30, 2008
Find out more at:
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/filmocracy/
KING CORN, a documentary about two friends, one acre of corn and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation, premieres on Independent Lens on PBS, April 15 (check broadcast listings.) KING CORN, by Aaron Woolf, Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney, is a co-production of Mosaic Films Incorporated and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Tweet
If you are what you eat, what are you made of?
PBS’s Independent Lens invites you to make a statement about the politics of food. Enter to win the Filmocracy mashup contest. It’s easy!
Make a short film using KING CORN clips and footage from Getty Images. You can even upload your own clips and mix it all up with the Eyespot online editing tool. When you're done, check out everyone else's videos and rate your favorites.
The grand prizewinner gets $1,000 and a chance to be screened throughout the country, plus a KING CORN DVD, soundtrack and other fabulous corn-free prizes! The most popular and highest rated videos get cool prizes too.
Want to make the best film you can? Learn how with tips from the pros! Be a corn connoisseur, visit the KING CORN website and get acres of information about the crop.
Mix it up and make your statement about food. Have fun and good luck!
Contest dates: March 7 - May 30, 2008
Find out more at:
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/filmocracy/
KING CORN, a documentary about two friends, one acre of corn and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation, premieres on Independent Lens on PBS, April 15 (check broadcast listings.) KING CORN, by Aaron Woolf, Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney, is a co-production of Mosaic Films Incorporated and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Tweet
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