With apologies to David Pogue – In the last two days, I’ve had at least three requests for help locating the American Film Institute’s "21st CenturyEducator’s Handbook: Protocol and Materials Guide to the Screen Education Process" on the unitedstreaming site. A search on "AFI" will bring up the video clips and then
AFI PA
A big thank you to the PA DEN Leadership Council for organizing a “Lights! Camera! Education!” training in Pittsburgh last Friday and Saturday. It was an enthusiastic group of DEN members and candidates many of whom spent more time than I did to get to the Carnegie Science Center on the river by
Independent Evaluation
This was going to be a podcast with the voices of my fellow AFI attendees from last week’s training with DEN members in L.A. What better evaluation than to get the students’ eye view from a bunch of educators? However, it’s going to take a while longer to stitch those sound bites together.
Visual Grammar
I have always loved language. From my earliest exposure to reading, spelling, phonics, and diagramming sentences (a lost art!) to my later studies of “foreign” languages and a career as a Spanish teacher, I have been fascinated by our innate ability and desire to communicate. It was that fascination that eventually led me
I’ve Been ScreenEd!
Just reflecting on and recuperating from IL-TCE 2007. I think it was our best conference ever and the best time I’ve had personally and professionally. Our keynotes, David Pogue and Jason Ohler, were both very funny and musical in addition to being fonts of information and inspiration. I have to admit I
A Four Star Review
I’m sure that most of us got into education for the sheer joy of teaching and working with children. We watched our own teachers and were inspired. But nobody warned us about grading and paper work and that was probably one of the great surprises of student teaching. Evaluating really creative work like
Everybody’s a Critic!
And the American Film Institute wants to give them a voice and a framework to learn to be critical viewers and to take feedback as a way to improve their own work. In the “The 21st Century Educator’s Handbook” that is part of the “Lights, Camera, Education!” program available on unitedstreaming,
A Five Step Program
No it’s not therapy, but it could be a good treatment for students suffering from a lack of interest. I was just going over “The 21st Century Educator’s Handbook” again in preparation for our webinar this Wednesday with Frank Guttler, Associate Director of AFI’s K-12 Screen Education Center. This is the teacher’s guide
Lights, Camera, Education!
We interrupt this week on sound with an important message. About four months and forty degrees ago (here in the Chicago area at least) I was out in San Diego for NECC (the National Educational Computing Conference). The first presentation I attended on the very first day was by the American Film Institute