mea culpa– no entry for Wednesday night
extenuating circumstances– this time not of the happy kind.
but at least I’m here today!
Have some waffles.
Google earth
Guided tours: create yourself or use prepared
Turn on 3D buildings and Street View
Borders/ labels
Radar
Don’t turn on too many layers at once
KeynoteMarkupLanguage (KML)
Guided tour of the Odyssey!
Scavenger hunt (in Paris) with an amount of money and a series of places to visit
“Find businesses” “café”—navigate to
Tours are downloadable:
1) earth.google.com – go to Gallery
2) regular Google search—advanced search—file type (i.e. .ppt or .kml)
find in Google—control-click on item and choose “save link as”
click on icon of Saturn and you go to the sky from the point of view from where you last were (on earth).
Tonight’s readings, following on our late afternoon discussion, have me feeling confused and troubled. The seemingly simple question about the conditions under which students may use someone else’s composition or performance (30 seconds of music, 3 minutes of video, 3 poems by one poet, etc.) is clouded by the cultural imperative, even as it is very clear that we educators must deal with this and related questions with great integrity and transparency.
So now I feel reignited to network with colleagues in the secondary school world to better inform the guidelines I establish with my students for their work, including questions of venue (does it matter if the one-minute music video is only for in-class use and not to be posted to the web? wouldn’t our students be better off if I required them to make their own music? but what if I’m the only secondary school film teacher who is enforcing the letter of the law? how can I best educate about the spirit of that law? what are best practices and how are they evolving?
Thanks to my colleagues and to Summercore for stirring this pot. These are important questions.
Wow– lots to process and to consider. I have begun to catch up by reading sections of chapters of our handy workbook. Chapter 14 led me to set up a Bloglines account. The section on Blog- and Wiki-use in the classroom looks to be promising for collaborative work with my colleagues in the arts dept as we embark on our new freshman Core Arts course. This is all very cool stuff!
And I just had a del icio us dinner prepared by my sweetheart.
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Mr. Goody-Twoshoes surprises himself. I never forget to do my homework. This time, I did. Okay, here’s the excuse: this past Friday I got married!
(We’re not exactly newlyweds, however. My partner and I have been together 21 years. But this last week was the first opportunity to get (legally) married in California. So we did. And so I will re-read the assignment and attend to it, ASAP!)
documentation of the “dog who ate my homework”:
