Comments on: Fake or Legit

By: Moving Through Some Changes: Thoughts On Teaching

Moving Through Some Changes: Thoughts On Teaching — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:38:43 +0000

[…] and Writing Challenge. I’m thinking of a fourth flavor (Graphic Challenge) working with one of Dan’s many ideas that gnaw at the back of my head. Students write about images, sometimes rationalizing why they think something is fake or legit […]

By: fgk

fgk — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 01:06:11 +0000

you may want to double check your reference on the horse pic.

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:51:19 +0000

It actually did cross my mind that the fin looked a bit more like a dolphin, but that kind of logical thinking would never cross my mind if I was in the water faced with that murky outline.

By: dan

dan — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:17:29 +0000

Dang. Sucks about PowerPoint 2007. Ya know Apple released a patch for that problem, right? Yep. Called it Keynote. I think Santa's bringing me the latest version this Christmas which oughtta export something compatible for you people. Sit tight 'til then, I guess. Todd, not that it'll do your sharkophobia any good but that there's a dolphin.

By: SurRural Librarian

SurRural Librarian — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:15:15 +0000

I like to use somthingawful.com for crazy artificial pictures. Check out the shark at:
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/add-something.php

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:12:12 +0000

I don’t ever surf, but that first picture is similar to my worst nightmare. I’m not going to get to sleep tonight, even if that is a fake.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:59:37 +0000

Be interesting to plot scores based on something—gender, age, hair color, math grade, ses….

When ever I get these images as emails labeled “This IS Unbelievable” I cringe. I also cringe when I get the “gang initiation”, “missing teen”, “send this on and you’ll be rich”, “deoderant (or cellphone) causes cancer”, “dying teen” or “Golden Compass is anti-God” emails. It amazes me how gullible people (teachers) are. Yikes.

OK, the brouhaha over Golden Compass wasn’t a hoax.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:03:40 +0000

Ditto on that couldn’t open with 07 problem :-(

By: Christian Long

Christian Long — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:29:44 +0000

Why, oh why, oh why will my little laptop (with Microsoft Office 07) NOT open the PPt file? Is there a small animal I can sacrifice to right this wrong?

Love the idea, Dan. Obviously there are 2 take-away’s. One, focusing on the technical ‘skill’ of discerning truths/fakes in visual form. Two, what it means to question (re)source in the first place, and ‘make sense’ of a evolving landscape of ‘truth’.

Both are vital to dem kids and to our collective futures.

By: fgk

fgk — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:10:23 +0000

thanks for sharing all your work, and even more the way you think and how you get from point a to b.

i just stumbled across your site, from tmao’s i think, and have been alternating between inspired and feeling inadequate.

i’ve spent years bemoaning the state of powerpoint and what it does to presentations, and serendipitously took the plunge with keynote just this weekend.