I remember watching the Victor Fleming directed film Wizard of Oz (1939) every year on television. It became a tradition much like watching Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story have become tradition to watch around Christmas. Nevertheless, the Wizard of Oz is listed as one of America’s 10 Greatest Films (and number one in the …
I have added a section to our District Web site that includes details about the Summer TECK Institute (cms.wws.k12.in.us/technology/teck-institute/). I ended up using the About section as the page that displays when you select the TECK Institute. Additionally, I created sections titled Structure, Learning Artifacts (teacher examples), Technology Learning Facilitators (what this summer group will …
Review of Literature Students today have grown up with technology as an integral part of their life with over 10,000 hours playing video games, over 200,000 emails and instant messages sent and received; over 10,000 hours talking on digital cell phones; over 20,000 hours watching TV, over 500,000 commercials seen all before college (Prensky, 2001, …
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You may not know that I have an alter ego, but I do. For the past 13 years, I have owned and operated a DJ company (DJs Entertainment), even being fortunate enough to have DJed a few weddings for teachers in our district. I love to personalize events and especially make the receptions memorable and …
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQcVllWpwGs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eparentdish%2Ecom%2F2009%2F07%2F09%2Fevians%2Droller%2Dskating%2Dbabies%2Dad%2Dcute%2Dor%2Dcreepy%2F%3Ficid%3Dmain%7Chp%2Ddesktop%7Cdl7%7Clink2%7Chttp%253A%252F&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]This highly viewed commercial is great not only to watch for its entertainment and special effects, but also with the Rule of Thirds in mind. See if you can count the number of babies in this one minute commercial. I can tell you it’s no where near the number of viewers and it’s between 75 …