Well, Antonella Dalla Torre’s Italian 202 class had its first annual La Mattina degli Oscar (The Morning of the Oscars), and it was quite a special event. Good food, everyone well-dressed, and the culture was first rate, now that’s Italian! The occasion was a celebration of the recent work this class put into creating [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Mashups, Italian Style!
Published by April 30th, 2008 in Italy, YouTube, fun, insructional technology, mashup, movies and video. 4 CommentsLiterary Journals Class, the sequel
Published by April 29th, 2008 in UMW Blogs, google docs and insructional technology. 5 CommentsLast week I got to see the second iteration of Claudia Emerson’s Literary Journals course present their work, and you can color me impressed (for my post on the first iteration see here). This course was first taught last Spring as a kid of experiment in seeing if students could spend the first half [...]
Dawn of the Dead, take 3
Published by April 28th, 2008 in Formative 10, YouTube, insructional technology, mashup and movies. 2 CommentsFinally, the last and mashed installation of my Dawn of the Dead (1978) series which took far more technical and creative energy than I originally imagined. The idea behind this experiment was simple: create three commentaries upon the social/political sub-themes dealing with consumer culture embedded within Dawn of the Dead using video-based approaches. [...]
Classic horror movies on the Atari 2600
Published by April 27th, 2008 in halloween, movies and video games. 8 CommentsI have been using emulation to give my twelve-year old neighbor the people’s history of classic video games and home consoles (much more on both the emulation and the history shortly). While preparing these rigorous classes, I came across a couple of gems that I can’t believe I hadn’t known about until now—so [...]
Marking Digital History at UMW
Published by April 26th, 2008 in James Farmer, UMW Blogs, civil rights, google, insructional technology, maps, museums, open education and umw centennial. 4 CommentsJeff McClurken’s Adventure’s in Digital History seminar is (or is it “was” now?) a pretty amazing thing. The driving logic of the course was that four distinct projects, each dealing with a unique facet of local history, were be framed for the world-at-large as online digital resources. This is a quite ambitious goal, and [...]
I got my first video response on YouTube today, and it is a pretty cool feeling. Much has been said about how bad the commentary can be on YouTube, and I tend to agree though I have had better luck than most. That said, the real genius of YouTube is in the video response feature, [...]
Being good for my word, below is the second version of the Dawn of the Dead clip I published yesterday here, but this time with a running commentary of the edited scenes. It is far from perfect, and Jerry gave me a ton of good recommendations for making it better, so I will return [...]
Dawn of the Dead, Take 1
Published by April 21st, 2008 in Formative 10, mashup and movies. 3 CommentsOver the next three days I am going to be publishing three different videos dealing with George Romero’s genius horror film Dawn of the Dead (1978). The first of the three (this post) is a six-minute, edited “argument” of scenes that I think frame the power and importance of this film as both horror and [...]
10 ways to use UMW Blogs
Published by April 21st, 2008 in UMW Blogs, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 2 CommentsAbout two weeks ago I asked our kick ass student aids Joe and Shannon to start a wiki page outlining ten possible ways to use UMW Blogs. Soon after I went in and re-arranged, added, edited, etc. Last week DTLT’s newest ITS star for the Social Sciences, Michael Willits (who now gets a link back [...]
Pickering Institute (ab)using WPMu; or what’s in a domain?
Published by April 18th, 2008 in Uncategorized. 5 CommentsThis is kinda fun, the for-profit online college Pickering Institute is using WordPress Multi-User to spread the good word about consolidating student loans, Vegas deals, and domain parking. Now I have championed WordPress Multi-User for a while now because it is what I am comfortable with, and I find it can be pretty effective for [...]
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