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document.write( "            Cutting the Crap from Student iMovies: A Screencast Tutorial | Beyond School: " );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(Gunnar Schei):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> @Clay,I think you are correct in your claim that our student already have the means with which to communicate on another level than traditional writing. I will go as far as saying that if schools don’t start employing different learning strategies very soon, then school will become increasingly irrelevant to all students. Kids today live and learn in the world of web 2.0, but most schools don’t. This is twice problematic: Students think schools is old and irrelevant, and school can offer no guidance in the use of the web - which students really need - they don’t master it even if they think so. Check out a British JISC report about the Google Generation, and their technologiacal strengths and weaknesses:Thanks for the tip on the Google Translator, it has much improved since last time I tried it! This tells me that my Star Trek analogy isn’t pure fiction, and we will have universal translators in a few decades… Maybe we could give one to Yoda, to correct his horrific grammar" );
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document.write( "                <a class=\"author\" href=\"http://www.cocomment.com/comments/amercer\">amercer</a>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(A. Mercer):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Eye contact? The rule in both the men\'s room (with open urinals) and women\'s room is no eye contact. Are you sure those women weren\'t looking at themselves in the mirror? BTW, dh gave me the etiquette rule for guys, it\'s not based on first hand knowledge. Public restrooms are all about feigning ignorance once the stall door is closed. You ignore the sounds and activity from the stall next door, etc. Only pleas for sanitary supplies or tp when you run out are acceptable. That\'s what made Larry Craig\'s footsie so noticeable." );
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document.write( "            Educational Technology and Life: " );
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document.write( "                <a class=\"author\" href=\"http://www.cocomment.com/comments/amercer\">amercer</a>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(Alice Mercer):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> I\'m going to suggest something wacky. One of the best projects using video at my school this year was done in the after school SES tutoring program. This is tutoring provided under NCLB. The bad news is that it\'s got a lot of paperwork, it\'s standards based, and you have a plan for each kid to meet a standard. The good news is it pays very well for public school based program (the tutors got $50 an hour) with only have 4-6 students, and the program I was with the head guy was very flexible about the delivery of instruction model. So one of the tutors had a background in film, and had kids do some videos on shadows and angles and another on graphing linear equations (x+2 = y) using stop action. I need to strip the copyrighted music he added out, so I can post it.<br><br>You need three personalities (although it could be in one or two people) to make a program like this work, someone who knows the paperwork/admin part of it, someone who knows the standards, and the creative type who can come up with a project to fit the need.<br><br>It\'s probably not what you were thinking of, but I thought I\'d throw it out there?" );
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document.write( "            <a href=\"http://blogs.edweek.org/mt-cp.php\" class=\"article\" title=\"External link to article\">eduwonkette: Comment on Must See TV! Schwarzenegger Doppelganger Promotes Algebra II!</a>" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(Elona Hartjes):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> I\'m a special education specialist and write the Individual Education Plans for students who need extra support. I am very concerned about the ability of teachers to support some of the more needy kids in the system and the general safety of everyone, students and teachers alike. <br><br>There\'s really much more that I\'d like to say but it\'s too much to say in a comment box so if it\'s not too much trouble I\'m inviting you to go to my blog to read the article I wrote here" );
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document.write( "            Edublogger-EduTwitter School of the Future: " );
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document.write( "                <a class=\"author\" href=\"http://www.cocomment.com/comments/amercer\">amercer</a>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(A. Mercer):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> I\'ve been thinking about an aspect of this recently. The controversy over the New Yorker cover led to a discussion with Art Spiegalman (Maus) on Talk of the Nation (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92556059) where he said that we need to teach a type of visual literacy, but not the aesthetics stuff that Dean Shareski and others discuss (not putting that down, btw), but visual irony and satire. That\'s obviously not the big picture but I would say that nuance and subtlety maybe getting lost in globalization where the majority of English speakers in the world have learned it as a second language. What can we do to teach shades of meaning, both verbal, written, and visual, to language learners, and across cultures?" );
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document.write( "            Diigo anyone?: " );
document.write( "            <a href=\"http://mizmercer.edublogs.org/2008/07/17/thank-you-nancy-pratt-and-david-warlick/\" class=\"article\" title=\"External link to article\">Thank you Nancy Pratt and David Warlick</a>" );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(Anonymous):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Naw, I\'ll send you instead ;-)" );
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document.write( "            Rejecting Your Reality & Substituting My Own: " );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(Bryan):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> It almost sounds like they are adding “taxes” to fines to raise extra money. I mean, who’s going to stand up against soaking “criminals” for a few extra dollars right?Sheesh I hope you can get this reversed. I wouldn’t have thought of this either while doing the Snoopy dance, but I guess you should get something in writing on a dismissal like this." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(A. Mercer):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Hmm, don\'t know why we\'d get a cut. Not into tithing. Check with the LDS folks about that." );
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document.write( "            dy/dan: " );
document.write( "            <a href=\"http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=847\" class=\"article\" title=\"External link to article\">Tying Loose Ends</a>" );
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document.write( "                <a class=\"author\" href=\"http://www.cocomment.com/comments/amercer\">amercer</a>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(A. Mercer):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Yeah, you also have a starring role in this video on the NECC Ning: http://www.necc2008.org/video/video/show?id=1997968%3AVideo%3A16933<br><br>Don\'t keep that one to yourself, lol." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(A. Mercer):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Kate,<br><br>And YouTube doesn\'t? Truly the e-rate filter gods are a fickle bunch." );
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document.write( "            On the Tenure Track: " );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(eyeingtenure):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> Ms. Tonello: Seems to me that anonymity gives Internet users balls of brass, and even you are no exception. I’m not sure how your comment is accurate, appropriate or relevant, but I think your obscenity speaks for itself. With professionals like you around, it’s a wonder I didn’t follow your example sooner. Feel free to read my accurate-or-not internal reasoning — whatever you believe, I had it in spades. If you’d also like to continue trolling, I have no problem with it. I’ve dealt with your kind before.Ms. Kathryn: Well played, ma’am. Well played." );
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document.write( "                <a class=\"author\" href=\"http://www.cocomment.com/comments/amercer\">amercer</a>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(A. Mercer):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> I recently helped document our schools sixth grade promotion (deliberately not called a graduation, so there is no confusion). I\'m of two minds about these ceremonies. It is a nice cap on their leaving a place they\'ve been for half their lives. I shudder though at how much effort and money some families can put into it. There is NO WAY that it resembles a high school graduation with only 60+ students (e.g. my high school class had something like 500+ graduates), and there are no gowns or mortar boards, etc. <br><br>That being said, behavior modification works best if you reward for increments (especially if the subject is on the edge of not meeting the overall goal), so based on that I think it\'s a good idea within reason. <br><br>You and others questioning this in a thoughtful way, are helpful because it does bear scrutiny, even if I come out on the other side of the argument." );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(eyeingtenure):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> There’s nothing wrong with a small, subdued ceremony that’s little more than a handshake, but there’s certainly something wrong about all this opulence.Our biggest question: What is within reason? Where is the line drawn?" );
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document.write( "            dy/dan: " );
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document.write( "                <span class=\"author-alias\">(The Skeptic Redux):</span>" );
document.write( "                <span class=\"comment\"> […] the rules of slide and web design may be Dan’s bailiwick, but who’s teaching our kids why Comic Sans makes users judge its content differently than Times […]" );
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