Cool Hunting

Cool hunting, the process of marketing to teenagers. It reinforces the fact that 20% of the masses dictate what the other 80% are prone to do. It's an interesting process...finding and hunting down the select teenagers that are forward in their thinking and personify a specific image of what is "cool." It doesn't surprise me that the methods of the marketers is so focused and brings such big bucks, but what does surprise are the methods of the researchers that the marketers contract.

Storytelling with technology

Interesting class today on the topic of the characteristics and development of a story. It had really been a while since I thought about the fundamental aspects of a story, and appreciated how important they are both to implement and teach.

School Train

Does school train accomplish the goal of students understanding metaphor?

Well, it is provocative. I would assess projects such as this by the effort, thoughtfulness, organization, knowledge of medium, coherency, and ultimately the statement made by the media. I would give this project a high score because I feel it fulfills the criteria. In addition, students not only understand metaphor, they understand:

• Visual essay
• Music and media
• The role of self in expression
• Team collaboration
• Power of production and publishing

All of which is relevant to the world the students live and participate in.

Fox As A Better Person-Hannah

I am so impressed about the multi-media presentation seen from Schgen George’s class. The form of communication is not only fast, easy, and affordable, it allows a venue for people to present something larger than text on paper. Short films such as this allow a medium for the students to present themselves, their own story, while producing a concrete product that they have complete ownership over. I want to express how revolutionary I feel this type of work is, but it's not, and it really won't be in a month.

• Creativity and Expressiveness redefining communication
• Teaching kids unbounded levels of mobility
• Letting the students teach us about their realities
  

Day one

First day as a blogger...weird