Edit Envy for “Fear Factor”: a New Video by Bill Farren
Tuesday, 1 April 2008 Clay Burell 
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Is there an educator out there who has the digital story-telling* skills Bill Farren shows in this work? If so, I’m not aware of it. From the message (the use of fear in population control) to the medium (archival footage, skillful titling, rhythmic audio-video editing, original music, and so much more), I literally have not seen a better original digital story come out of the edublogosphere. I thought Bill’s “Did You Ever Wonder?” was strong. This out-leaps it twice over.
Shared with permission. Bill’s Education for Well-Being website has transcripts of the quotes used in the video and more, along with some of the most thoughtful and substantial content around. No echo chamber over there.
See Bill’s guest-blogging posts on Beyond School here.
Does anybody else in education have these kinds of A/V skills? Please leave links in the comment, if so. (Actually, Nathan Lowell is doing some great stuff, but I can’t find the exact links on his blog. Scott McLeod featured them last week on Dangerously Irrelevant, though.)
*Who came up with the term “digital storytelling,” anyway? Is it me, or is it far less sexy than – and far too schooly for – the good old word, “film-making”?
- Guest-Blogger Bill Farren: Education for Well-Being
- Quality Student Podcast: Patrick Interviews Bill Farren for Project Global Cooling
- The Age of Paradox (Guest Blogger Bill Farren, no. 4)
- The Hidden Curriculum (guest-blogger Bill Farren, post 2)
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No. 1 — April 2nd, 2008 at 5:39 am
Hi Clay,
Bill’s got filmmaker chops, all right. Craig Lindvahl and Joe Fatheree are a couple more teachers who are also self-taught documentarians, working in small-town Illinois. Naturally, they teach digital storytelling to their students (and have an annual film festival showcasing some pretty powerful student work). Here’s a post that gives some more details: http://reinventingpbl.blogspot.com/2008/03/big-screen-big-lessons.html
Cheers,
Suzie
Suzie Boss’s last blog post..Ideas in the Nick of Time
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No. 2 — April 2nd, 2008 at 5:52 am
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No. 3 — April 2nd, 2008 at 10:21 am
Bill does some incredible work. I love this video. The ability to tell “story” is one of the six skils Daniel Pink mentions as essential in the new conceptual age.
Charlie A. Roy’s last blog post..Education for the Conceptual Age
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No. 4 — June 4th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
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