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Comment on My PLN: A Teacher’s Treasure by Life-Long-Learners

Life-Long-Learners — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:45:05 +0000

[...] I believe that my philosophy about sharing and the importance of belonging to a PLN can best be summarized in my previous post, and video, entitled “My PLN: A Teacher’s Treasure”. [...]

Comment on Free Motivational Educational Posters by admin

admin — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:14:21 +0000

Thanks Steve for sharing Richard Clark’s “two-factor” test to help students and teachers determine a poster’s benefit.

Take care & keep smiling Brian

Comment on Free Motivational Educational Posters by steve mccrea

steve mccrea — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:02:07 +0000

Richard E. Clark has a “two-factor” test
a) does the poster contain an analogy that is easily remembered?
b) does the poster give teachers step by step guided instruction for implementing the recommended procedure?

Comment on Lip dub: A Classroom and School Approach by admin

admin — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 02:59:20 +0000

Jen … I’m glad that you raised this very important question. I am a retired educator ... not a lawyer, so I had to search to see if there was a definitive answer regarding lip dub copyright issues. Obviously, if one is to engage students in such an activity, it would be wise to keep the resulting video for only “in school” showing rather than upload it to any video display service such as YouTube or Vimeo. Furthermore, it seems that each country has its own copyright rules and may deem “fair use” differently, so rules in Canada may differ from the United States or Great Britain. Recently, I have participated in two different Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) at the university level. In these educational forums, students are encouraged to remix and enhance copyrighted media as part of the “fair use” creative process. I’m sure that the instructors believe, like Larry Lessig's TED Talk, that there are certain “Laws that choke creativity”. To help readers decide on how to best proceed with lip dubs, I share the following references:

Should you choose to explore the lip dub process with your students, make sure you take advantage of this "teachable moment" to discuss the copyright issues and ramifications. I hope that other readers will take time to share a comment on how they deal with lip dub copyright in their classes and schools. Take care & keep smiling :-) Brian

Comment on “Four Icon Challenge” & Feedback by Recap Week 1/3 in Asia: Japan (part a!) - CogDogBlog

Recap Week 1/3 in Asia: Japan (part a!) - CogDogBlog — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:58:13 +0000

[...] one of them! What would I do? I riffed off of a classic ds106 assignment that other educators have already shown works well with elementary school students- the four icon [...]

Comment on Lip dub: A Classroom and School Approach by Jen Servais

Jen Servais — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:19:45 +0000

Can you explain the copyright issue involved with this? Our school would like to do a lipdub but am concerned about copyright infringement.

Comment on Lip dub: A Classroom and School Approach by admin

admin — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:26:27 +0000

Hi Debbie ... Thanks for sharing your practical tips for creating a student lip dub. I must admit that I would never have thought about shooting the video backwards. Following up on your advice, I searched and found these instructive variations of the Shorewood High School lip dub:

However, from a technical point of view, I still cannot understand the benefits derived from shooting the lip dub in reverse. The "Seattle Pi" blog suggests that this "reverse shoot" lip dub was inspired by "a backward music video directed by one of their heroes — Spike Jonze". However, I'm still wondering if the reverse video process was just a method to "raise the bar" and challenge their Shorecrest High School rivals or if there is, indeed, a practical benefit to this process. Perhaps some of our readers can answer this question. In researching this concern, I found the following two resource "Five Steps To Shoot A Perfect Lipdub" and "How To Make A Great Lip Dub Video" and "which may be of a useful to our readers. Take care & keep smiling :-) Brian

Comment on Lip dub: A Classroom and School Approach by Debbie Fucoloro

Debbie Fucoloro — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:55:58 +0000

Brian, thanks for the comprehensive list of great lip dubs. I certainly could have used the steadicam assistance when we did our lip dub last spring. We did ours all in one take going backwards and then reversed the video and couldn’t really use a dolly, which would have helped greatly, because of the places the students wanted to go. In addition, our cameraman was sick on the day we filmed, and we had to use a substitute. My advice, we planned our route based on how long the song was, only to slow the video down after being reversed so that the viewer could see all of the ‘stunts’ easier. This was a mistake because we ran out of song and had to replay it to finish out the video. Still a great experience. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ngIGuU_WG-k We modeled ours after the Shorewood Lip Dub. Thanks, again!

Comment on DS106 Tasks: You Snooze – You Lose! by admin

admin — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 17:43:46 +0000

Hi Stefanie … I first enrolled in DS106 in the Spring of 2012 and I became very engaged in learning, completing assignments, and story-telling. This Spring, I decided to once again take part in DS106 but I also enrolled in the Educational Technology & Media Massive Open Online Course (#ETMOOC). Needless to say I have been busy in both areas and I feel that I have not done justice to either endeavour. However, I will continue learning and sharing what new and exciting classroom activities and resources that I come across.

The DS106 stream that I am listed under is “Open Online Participants“. If you scroll down to the 76th entry you will find me identified by my blog title “Life-Long-Learners.com”.

By the way … I was very impressed with your Superhero animation. You are indeed very talented!

Take care & keep smiling
PS I trust that you were able to get your TweetDeck working properly.

Comment on DS106 Tasks: You Snooze – You Lose! by Stefanie Jeske

Stefanie Jeske — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:35:02 +0000

Hi Brian, I have found some good work here. I often look in the open online stream for new submissions and I think I don’t find your work there. In which stream do you appear?

And… I like the Zorro gif (: