Post a project sometime.

We need so much more content like that.

I’ve got Motion now. I guess it’s time I learned it.

I don’t have any kind of expert opinion, and I’m not even an educator, but I do have a handy trick to share to help sock away the footage of a quicktime streaming movie like this one (without qt pro!): in quicktime, once the movie has fully downloaded, right click on the movie on a non-essential frame and select cut. Then close the window. Quicktime will ask if you want to save your changes. Do so, and oh look! a copy of the movie (minus the frame you cut) on your hard drive.

I have no idea whether or not this works on the PC.

They claimed I must not be a good teacher.

They were joking.

So they claimed.

Now I am powerless against their jibes.

You and I know how easy it is to find the best stuff with only a few choice RSS feeds but I start to get into it and I sense zero traction. Moreover I feel too clumsy to properly explain the concept.

Maybe I’ll show ’em RSS in Plain English one of these days for show and tell.

Dean, I appreciate your commentary on the credit sequence as well as the link-up on your blog today. You and I seem to share a similar sideline interest in videography. In case you came by after I debuted it, here’s one of my video projects from this summer.

Yet when I pass this along the same teachers that ask “how do you always see to find this stuff” are often the same ones who ask, “why do you bother reading blogs?”

We are embarking on a performance-based/alternative/authentic/[insert your buzzword] assessment this year for our history courses. One of the portfolio entires students may choose is an historical documentary.

I will show them this little brass ring as a target.

No, I don’t expect them to be able to do something like this. But I would expect that they could learn a lot trying to do something like this.

Your viewpoints on media tie in well with my K12online presentation next week called “Design Matters”. I also use your 4 slides contest as a great example of constraints (which is why I popped over here but got sidetracked since I just saw The Kingdom on Friday).

The use of stock footage, text, timelines and narration are great examples of storytelling at its best. Here the goal was simply to inform but as the movie unfolds this leads to some fairly complex issues.