Teachers all have their pet peeves, rules that are not to be broken at any cost. At this point I think I’ve taught enough Media Arts curriculum to list mine. I plan to print these out and put them on my wall for next year. Respect the intellectual property of others. (Cite sources, don’t use …
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OpenShot: Open Source Video Editing
TL;DR: OpenShot is a free video editor that supports multiple tracks and chroma key. Try it out. I’ve been an off-and-on-again fan of Linux for years (decades?), but one of the things that always had me come crawling back was the lack of decent video editing software. (And video games, but that’s another blog …
The Curse of “Good Enough” (#BYOTchat) | TheArtGuy Vlogs
Come by #BYOTchat on Twitter! This Thursday at 9PM EST! More exclamation points!
Money Problems | TheArtGuy Vlogs | November 23, 2015
If you’re so inclined, you may want to check out #BYOTchat
No games?! | TheArtGuy Vlogs | November 18, 2015
OK, so this is showing up here later than I posted it, but I’m trying to post only 1 thing per day to this site and I have a bit of a backlog thanks to PUWT15. I regret nothing.
I’m Vlogging? I’m Vlogging!
After a very long hiatus, I’ve started vlogging again. The last time I did anything like this, I apologized for the video being a whopping 50 megabytes. Let that sink in for a bit. In any case, the new videos are being published over on my YouTube channel, but I’ll be embedding them here as …
#PUWT15 Thoughts: Session 5: #Twitter4Educators
Session 5: #Twitter4Educators, by Evylyn Quiñones Going around the room introducing ourselves and saying how comfortable we are with Twitter. I joined Twitter in March of 2007. I think I’m the old fogey here. Norms Take risks Share ideas Ask questions Have fun learning Addressing two things simultaneously: Teacher tweets and student tweets. Remember, there is …
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#PUWT15 Thoughts: Session 2, Fusing Media Technology and Content in the Classroom
Session 2: Fusing Media Technology and Content in the Classroom, by Margaret Olson Starts off asking who uses social media already. One teacher is using Snapchat? Wow. David Warlick quote about technology on the 2nd slide. Oh, that takes me back. Recommends having a social media account for the class. Ratio of student/teacher content creation can vary …
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#PUWT15 Thoughts: Keynote, A.J. Juliani
Keynote:Â A.J. Juliani Technology “With a purpose.” “I was at a very good school district that was focused a lot on test scores” is a contradiction. “My students aren’t motivated about anything except grades!” They were motivated by a lot of things, but learning his lessons wasn’t one of those things. Started following the Google model: …
#PUWT15 Thoughts: Make Discussions Matter!
Session 1: Make Discussions Matter! by Jason Flanagan Presentation is online. Better yet, so is his assessment template. Started out weak. I come to sessions to be wowed. This started with “Here, read this.” Underlying concept is great. He uses a custom Google Sheet to objectively assess student led conversation and show the results in …
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