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Dean Shareski, one of my favourite educators to follow on Twitter, recently put together a great presentation on reputation management and social media for schools that I wanted to reshare. This presentation will be of special interest to educational administrators, communications officers and information stakeholders in schools and schoolboards. From his website description:
“I presented on [...]

My first machinima – Virtual World Learning v. H1N1
The above “news report” on H1N1 and virtual worlds is part of an assignment I just completed for an additional qualification course in Media at York University. The idea was to create two news reports in two different media. I chose to do a print story (forthcoming) [...]

Remix music video for Pogo’s Alice
A few weeks ago I came across this most amazing collision of music, animation and technology via a tweet from Youtube ethnographer Mike Wesch. This led me to ‘Alice’ (above), which led me to Pogo.
Given my own recent explorations of remix culture, I was inspired to contact Pogo via [...]

Last week I taught my class about Creative Commons, Larry Lessig and remix culture. Over the weekend, still feeling inspired by remix culture, I checked out RIP: A remix manifesto:
“RiP: A remix manifesto is an open source documentary about copyright and remix culture. Created over a period of six years, the film features the [...]

This is PMOG, an online game that allows you to earn data points, level up and create thematic “missions” from your web surfing. You can also create portals from one page to another or drop some loot or a mine on a page for another PMOG player to discover. All you need is a [...]

 
Check out the trailer for (the great) Jim Munroe’s latest lo fi sci fi film Infest Wisely. From the site:
“A new, chewable nanotechnology lets people take pictures with their eyes and cures cancer. But the early adopters find out it’s hard to uninstall something after it’s spread through their bloodstream… INFEST WISELY is a [...]

“The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.”
- Gunter Grass

Gunter Grass’ message is especially critical to those early-to-late majority users (i.e., everybody) who may not know the value or importance of their voice in the battle for a many-to-many democratic internet.
This post seeks to address why this is with resources and activities [...]

From the start of elementary school until high school graduation, students spend two million minutes preparing for their future. Director Chad Heeter’s documentary 2 Million Minutes explores the dramatic differences between the way Western students spend that time versus students in China and India.