Nancy Keck’s Blog

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“Boba Fett: Bounty Trail”
Watch the videos and tell me whether you think the fan film helps or hurts the franchise and how. What are the dangers of letting fans make up their own StarWars-based stories?
I really liked Star Wars but I did not think this video was in the same caliber of the Lucas […]

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Jenkins notes that in 2004 political candidates who were successful on the Internet were not necessarily successful with the general public. He notes that new media did not take over the political process but it did influence the process.
How has the Internet and new media changed culture and institutions in general?

Media played a tremendous […]

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Have there been any books or movies that have inspired you to the point of action, either to be like people/characters in the book/movie, or to do something creative? What books/movies and what did you do?The movie last year “The Ultimate Gift” inspired my co-teacher, myself and Robin Abrams to create a year long project […]

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Copy of My personal autographed print from “Yoda” in St Maarten
 Chapter 4: Quentin Tarantino’s Star Wars?

 How has technology change the division between folk culture and commercial or mass culture?
Folk culture has always been important remember “Woodstock” or the first time the Beatles played on the Ed Sullivan show. Now, current technology such as […]

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I think the most amazing thing that happened this week is the phenomena of Susan Boyle and the amazing technological advance of her career on Youtube. I feel that Susan Boyle has taught us all a lesson. As a special education teacher, I have found that too many wonderful people/students with fantastic talents and tales to […]

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“Stories are basic to all human cultures, the primary means by which we structure, share, and make sense of our common experiences. Rather, we are seeing the emergence of new story structures, which create complexity by expanding the range of narrative possibility rather than pursuing a single path with a beginning, middle, and end.”
I have […]

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“Just as the social dynamic of these online communities reaffirms and / or redefines their individual members’ brand loyalties, a similar dynamic shapes the ways people media and products within their family or with friends”
This statement makes a lot of sense to me and reminds me of the communities that students have set up to […]

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“Collective intelligences refers to this ability of virtual communities to leverage the combined expertise of their members. What we cannot know or do on our own, we may now be able to do collectively.”
I think back to the time before I was a DEN member (Discovery Educators Network) and think how “boring” my teaching was. […]

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