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Jim Lerman
July 11, 2016 5:02 PM
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The National Writing Project, in partnership with a range of Educator Innovator leaders, is hosting a 2 month-long series focused on the ways that youth can be engaged in the upcoming presidential election around topics of interest and importance to them. July marks the second part of this series. In connection to the Letters to the Next President 2.0 project, we will explore media making, using historical primary sources for contemporary learning, and creating persuasive arguments that support productive discourse. We will emphasize ways that educators can take summer time to explore ways that youth might be engaged in these same opportunities and plan for how to integrate this work into their learning spaces this fall.
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from Into the Driver's Seat
July 2, 2016 8:54 PM
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A study found that students who read about famous scientists' personal and intellectual struggles do better in their science classes. Librarians helped us put together a list of books that detail some of those struggles.
Via Becky Roehrs, Lisa Curry Tolbert, Jim Lerman
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Jim Lerman
from :: The 4th Era ::
July 1, 2016 7:56 PM
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Description by The Scout Report "Over the past couple of decades, humanities scholars have identified various ways to use technology to archive, analyze, and share content relating to the Humanities - including English literature, history, and art. The Digital Humanities Quarterly is a free, peer reviewed journal published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), an international consortium of Digital Humanities organizations. Now in its ninth year of publication, the journal publishes scholarly articles, book reviews, and the occasional editorial addressing such issues as student experience and the digitization of epigraphy. Readers will also find a complete special issue about comics (which includes an article by Nicholas Sousanis, who wrote his dissertation at Columbia Teacher's College as a 125-page comic with citations), and another special issue about feminism in the digital humanities."
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
July 1, 2016 6:38 PM
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50 Popular iPad Apps For Struggling Readers & Writers
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Jim Lerman
June 28, 2016 12:30 AM
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So, how can we chase our story more efficiently? Here are three tools for anyone to use, that might put you on the right track – the only thing you need is a willingness to challenge your story as it stands today:
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from Digital Storytelling 2.0
June 25, 2016 6:38 PM
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Ourboox is a platform and community for social publishing. Reach out to the community, publish your book online and share it with the Ourboox community and the world.
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
June 22, 2016 8:01 PM
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NEW -- MASTERPIECE Collection on PBS LearningMedia
Visit the all-new MASTERPIECE Collection on PBS Learning Media, featuring videos, teaching tips, discussion questions, and activities.
Teacher's Guides
For more than 40 years, MASTERPIECE has been known for high-quality adaptations of classics, mysteries, and contemporary literature. Browse more than 30 Teacher's Guides that can help you enhance your teaching by using MASTERPIECE films in the classroom.
Featured Guides
Film in the Classroom, Revised Complete Version (2.4 MB)
This completely updated guide, created for MASTERPIECE's 40th anniversary, offers fresh ideas and innovative activities for teaching film in today's digital environment. Drawing on a treasure trove of 25 outstanding MASTERPIECE films, the guide will help you use film not just as an adjunct to literature, but as a tool that can improve students' understanding of media literacy as well as literary elements.
A Tale of Two Cities
One of the most frequently-taught Dickens novels, A Tale of Two Cities explores issues also associated with other works of Charles Dickens: poverty, oppression, cruelty, social disruption, justice, personal redemption, and class struggle. Use this in-depth guide, along with the MASTERPIECE film, to help make this timeless tale come alive.
Learning Links
Find general education links to support teaching MASTERPIECE films in the classroom.
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Jim Lerman
from MarketingHits
June 20, 2016 1:19 AM
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Do you want to create professional-grade social media visuals?
Are you looking for budget-friendly tools to help?
Visual content can increase your visibility on social media and support your branding.
In this article, you’ll discover nine free tools to help you create beautiful visual content for your social media profiles.
Via Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
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Jim Lerman
June 6, 2016 12:10 AM
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Where some see a war between print and digital, Scott Dadich spies an opportunity. Dadich became WIRED’s editor in chief as the magazine industry was struggling against digital encroachment, but he quickly saw how print and online content can be adapted to take advantage of each platform’s strengths. Dadich offers a guide to a new publishing ecosystem where web, mobile, tablet, and print content support each other.
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Jim Lerman
June 5, 2016 7:20 PM
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June 5, 2016 11:30 AM
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“The important thing,” Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in contemplating the cultural role of speculative fiction and the task of its writer, “is not to offer any specific hope of betterment but, by offering an imagined but persuasive alternative reality, to dislodge my mind, and so the reader’s mind, from the lazy, timorous habit of thinking that the way we live now is the only way people can live.” In doing so, she argued, imaginative storytelling can intercept the inertia of oppressive institutions, perilous social mores, and other stagnations of progress that contract our scope of the possible.
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from Cultivating Creativity
June 4, 2016 2:04 PM
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With tap dancer Michela Marino Lerman, vocalist Vuyo Sotashe, vibraphonist Joel Ross, guitarist Gabe Schnider, bassists Russell Hall (6/7-6/10) and Chris Smith (6/11), saxphonist and clarinetist Patrick Bartley (6/9-6/11), and drummer Kyle Poole
Tuesday-Saturday evenings, doors open at 11:15pm for Late Night Sessions featuring some of the most talented emerging artists in jazz. There are no reservations for Late Night Sessions - just swing by!
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Jim Lerman
from All digital
June 3, 2016 12:36 PM
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Digital storytelling is a trending educational tool. Know the 8 ways research indicate it transforms learning.
Via Stephania Savva, Ph.D
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from What's Goin' On?!
July 2, 2016 8:55 PM
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How literary devices -- the tools we use to tell stories -- can help you find the best images for your presentation deck.
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from Writing Rightly
July 1, 2016 7:35 PM
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Want to get paid to write for your favorite publications? Start by learning from these stellar lists.
Via Shannon Bolithoe , Penelope
Aspirational Drivers Are The Hidden Code In Stories
Bringing An Interactive Methodology To Other Media
Creating Integral Story Worlds
The Emergence of Transmedia Storytelling
Inviting Fans To Become Part Of The Story
Population Activation Through Transmedia Storytelling
Story Worlds Are Becoming More Porous
The Trail of Breadcrumbs
Transmedia Population Activation: Colombia, Part 1
Transmedia Population Activation: Colombia, Part 2
Transmedia Storytelling Is The Gift That Keeps On Giving
We've Returned To A Communal Conversation
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Jim Lerman
June 26, 2016 3:19 PM
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Chris Milk uses innovative technologies to make personal, interactive, human stories. Accompanied by Joshua Roman on cello and McKenzie Stubbert on piano, Milk traces his relationship to music and art — from the first moment he remembers putting on headphones to his current work creating breakthrough virtual reality projects. VR is the last medium for storytelling, he says, because it closes the gap between audience and storyteller. To illustrate, he brought the TED audience together in the world's largest collective VR experience. Join them and take part in this interactive talk by getting a Google Cardboard and downloading the experience at with.in/TED. Recorded Feb. 2016
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Jim Lerman
June 23, 2016 2:17 AM
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Now that tools are making it increasingly easy to alter the flow of how we watch films and television, viewers will also have power to change the plot and the characters of a show to suit their own tastes. We should look forward to a future that involves more cross-pollination, more crazy fan-theories, more creative misunderstandings, all of it enabled by new ways of consuming television, whether that means binge-watching, surfing clips on social media or even watching on fast-forward. We risk transforming, perhaps permanently, the ways in which our brains perceive people, time, space, emotion. And isn’t that marvelous?
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from Edumorfosis.it
June 21, 2016 1:52 AM
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Teaching first-semester freshmen presents some unique challenges. You are teaching them not only your subject, but also how to be college students. One of the best strategies I have found is to begin with a collaborative project that asks them to research their new home: the campus.
Outcomes
I designed this project for a composition course, but it can be adapted to any discipline because its primary outcomes are teaching students how to collaborate, think critically about their audience, develop 21st-century literacy skills, and communicate effectively.
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from Cultivating Creativity
June 19, 2016 2:23 PM
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At the 2014 HOW conference, Debbie Millman, host of the excellent interview show Design Matters and a remarkable mind, sat down with the prolific Seth Godin to discuss courage, anxiety, change, creative integrity, and why he got thrown out of Milton Glaser’s class. She used an unusual book of Godin’s as the springboard for their wide-ranging conversation: V is for Vulnerable: Life Outside the Comfort Zone (public library) — an alphabet book for grownups illustrated by Hugh MacLeod with a serious and rather urgent message about what it means and what it takes to dream, to live with joy, to find our purpose and do fulfilling work.
I had the pleasure of seeing and recording the conversation — transcribed highlights below.
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from Digital Delights for Learners
June 5, 2016 11:42 PM
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Madmagz enables you to create a digital or a print magazine. Try it, it's free!
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Jim Lerman
June 5, 2016 11:42 AM
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“We are — as far as we know — the only part of the universe that’s self-conscious,” the poet Mark Strand marveled in his beautiful meditation on the artist’s task to bear witness to existence, adding: “We could even be the universe’s form of consciousness. We might have come along so that the universe could look at itself… It’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.” Susan Sontag, at the end of her fully lived and intensely meaningful life, articulated the same idea in considering what it means to be a good human being: “To be a moral human being is to pay, be obliged to pay, certain kinds of attention.”
Scientists are rightfully reluctant to ascribe a purpose or meaning to the universe itself but, as physicist Lisa Randall has pointed out, “an unconcerned universe is not a bad thing — or a good one for that matter.” Where poets and scientists converge is the idea that while the universe itself isn’t inherently imbued with meaning, it is in this self-conscious human act of paying attention that meaning arises.
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Jim Lerman
June 5, 2016 12:51 AM
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description by the Scout Report "This writing guide from Bowdoin College professor Patrick Rael focuses its intellectual vigor on "Reading, Writing, and Researching for History." Designed for undergraduate students, the material covered here may also be helpful for advanced high school students, graduate students, and lifelong learners. The depth and breadth of the guide is noteworthy; Professor Rael guides his readers through sections on Reading, Historical Arguments, Research, Structuring Your Paper, Writing Your Paper, Working with Sources, Editing and Evaluation, and the Writing Model. Each section is broken down further into subheadings that can be downloaded as freestanding PDFs. For instance, readers will find a handy Paper-Writing Checklist within the Editing and Evaluation section or suggestions for How to Read a Primary Source in the Reading section. Whether browsing the guide in its entirety or selecting specific sections of interest, the material here may provide a handy tool for students and teachers alike."
Brad Herman & Shiraz Akmal recently left DreamWorks Animation to raise $3 million to start SPACES Inc., which is a virtual reality and mixed reality company focusing on storytelling for different brands including Microsoft, NBCUniversal, and The Hettema Group. Brad founded the DreamLab at DreamWorks in order to focus on developing content for mobile and cutting edge immersive technologies like VR, and so he’s been intimately involved with exploring storytelling in VR for the past couple of years. I had a chance to catch up with him at SVVR 2016, where he shared his thoughts about storytelling in VR and mixed reality, how to deal with non-compliant users, how he thinks that VR differs from film & broadway, and one of their first mixed reality projects of Big Blue Bubble’s My Singing Monsters.
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