The Film-Makers’ Cooperative Stockstock Film Festival  Annotated What is it? Stockstock is a film festival consisting of short films made entirely from stock footage. We select a limited amount of stock footage and give it to you; your job is to make it into some kind of short video presentation. Interested? Read the rules, download the [...]

Visual Tour: 20 Things You Won’t Like About Windows Vista Annotated If you’re buying into the full necessity for all aspects of User Account Controls, the Secure Desktop visual cues help you understand why the dialog is completely modal and effectively locks Windows down until a real person sitting at the computer answers the prompt. [...]

Poynter Online – Writing Tool #1: Branch to the Right Phil Turner : The business of writing Annotated Love the businessman who also loves great writing. From Phil’s blog: We’ve been talking about how to write in the business world. Here’s my starting point: “Short sentences, short paragraphs, active verbs, authenticity, compression, clarity and immediacy.” [...]

How-to RSS: Macromedia Flash (SWF) Movie Nice, but too long? Eide Neurolearning Blog: Better Writing from Text Messaging and Blogging Teens Annotated: From the Times, “Fears that text messaging may have ruined the ability of teenagers to write properly have been shown to be unfounded after a two-year study revealed that youngsters are more literate [...]

Inspirational Talking Points Justifying 1:1 Computing More to show parents and teachers. - post by cburell

Case for a Cooperative Studio Classroom: Teaching Petrology in a Different Way, The Journal of Geoscience Education – Find Articles  Annotated In these reports, and others, emphasis is placed on getting students actively involved in doing science and thinking like scientists. In its executive summary, the NSF report recommends that “. . . all students learn [...]

You are a young writer trying to experience what being a real writer is, because…your teacher is making you: sore spot one (but I can live with this one, for obvious reasons). You are a young writer trying to have that experience by writing on a web-log (I’ve decided to outlaw the term “blogging” with [...]

Real quick: I know about Archive.org, but what other online film, television, video, photo, and audio archives are there that give permission to students to use and edit for their own “digital essays,” a la Humanity Lobotomy? Any specific sites, or lists of such sites on a wiki, that you can recommend?

Barbara has alerted me to Jeff Utecht’s recent post about “blogging as conversation”–and made me feel a bit guilty about my own absence in many “comments” boxes to other edubloggers. (In my defense, I’m running at 1000 mph, but the world right now seems to be going at about 1010. My plate will get emptier [...]

cac.ophony: Aristotle and Powerpoint Annotated Anthony’s comments about lending narrative structure and “juice” to Powerpoints is just what my students need to hear. I’ve been coaching them on their oral presentation skills, and trying to get them not just to transmit information, but to find the “wow” in the subject they’re presenting so that the [...]