Month: July 2012
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Dead Men Don’t Have to Drill
I’m behind. I committed to a dozen animated Hitchcock movie posters and I’ve been stuck at four for a month. I need to stare at the noose. I’ve got to get this done. I love this idea and need to find a way to stay on track. I’m hoping this dozen will help, a renewed…
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I ♥ Pictures of CUNY
Eric Metcalf and I have been working on a photography blog about CUNY hosted on the CUNY Academic Commons for a few months now. The original idea was to surface what we thought were interesting CC licensed photos that relate to CUNY and present a new one every day. I spent many hours searching Flickr…
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Is There No Sanctuary?
So a freedom fighter of fair use got smacked in the face a couple of days ago. The Youtube copytright scanners… took him out. Why? Because he dared to look copyright holders in the face with this, this, this, and this? (pingback bonanza!) Groom had doggedly dodged and weaved against claims of copyright violations. But they simply reminded him of…
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Yo Adrian!
While talking about ds106 this summer with my teacher ed students, I described how I wished to complete the five seconds five films one archetype assignment with a mashup of Rocky’s distictive ‘Yo Adrian’ across the six Rocky films. I’d recently re-watched Rocky which was released in 1976 when I was age five. I somehow watched that…
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Apopcalyptic Start to the Summer
This past June I was able to teach a York College course for K12 pre-service candidates, Teaching With Technology during the summer session for the first time. We used a blog I created for the four week session which adopted a thematic title for the class, based on Jim Groom’s Educational Apopcalypse TEDxNYED talk. The site was named Why…