In the process of teaching students how to make a movie, I find one of the coolest and most underestimated part of the production is the sound design. To drive home how important the sound is, I usually play a short film without the video, and the class plays “Identify that sound!” I like one…
Category: Information Technology
BiblioteQR, BIT14, Information Technology
The Collected Thoughts from #BiblioteQR
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BiblioteQR, BIT14, Information Technology
“QR Codes and the Library” Slides
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(This is always a work in progress, as is everything I do)
Information Technology, Videos
AVADIN – Day 4 – There is a Hippo in My House
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A staple of my youthful tv watching were the multitude of PSA’s that littered the Saturday morning line up. I could recite the War Amps “Astar” commercials (“My name is Astar…”), tell you the content of all of NBC’s “The More You Know”, but my favourite had to be the Concerned Children’s Advertisers spots. They…
Information Technology, Language, Videos
AVADIN – Day 1 – Bloop, There It Is! (or how I learned to stop worrying and love Pixar)
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My class is currently in the middle of an examination of Visual Literacy using short films. We have been focusing the work of Pixar (with a few other added in for variation). It is a great examination of both how we make movies, and the stories that camera composition tell, but also of the great…
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ARADIO – Day 30 – Appointment Slots
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Parent/Teacher conference time is upon us, and I have had an extra struggle this year. BIT14 is scheduled on the days set aside for PT interviews, and this conflict meant that I needed a way to schedule my own times. I decided to dive headfirst into creating appointment slots using my GAFE account and using…
Information Technology, Resources, Wicked Googly
ARADIO – Day 29 – Search Ninja Part 2, The Searchening!
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They say that “A google a day keeps the bad citations away.” Although I pretty sure that they are the marketing department for Google. Nonetheless, “A Google A Day” is the gamified version of Google Search. It asks you a question, and gives you access to a google search (devoid of spoiler ridden autocompletes), and…
Information Technology, Resources
ARADIO – Day 28 – The Log Driver’s Waltz
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In case you didn’t know, and I sincerely hope that you do, much of the National Film Board‘s catalogue is available online. Much of my childhood was spent watching their crazy little shorts, including the much beloved “Log Driver’s Waltz” Canada Vignettes: Log Driver’s Waltz by John Weldon, National Film Board of Canada The NFB…
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ARADIO – Day 25 – My 2 Favourite QR Tools
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I find QR codes to be extremely useful in class for quick reference items. We have used them when we create a research bulletin board/poster, as a quick way of citing references for student work, a board for accessing commonly used websites and current assignments and rubrics. For all this to run smoothly, you need…
Information Technology, Resources
ARADIO – Day 24 – I’m Friends With The CIA
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One of the nice side-effects of a giant clandestine operation is that they keep great stats on people, places and things or just about any noun you can think of. The nice part for us teachers and student researchers, is that they keep a really nice World Fact Book. It has really detailed stats for…