The first blog post of Jason T. Bedell's that I commented on was on a fantastic tool called google calendar. Like me he had an obnoxiously enormous and amazing desk calendar. He then discovered that he should share his calendar with the world so SHAZAM! he made a google calendar. Google calendar is a fantastic tool that lets you either share your events with the world, keep them to yourself, or embed in a website.
The second post that I commented on was Jason T. Bedell's post on digital storytelling. Which I found awesome because using skills I learned in EDM 310 I actually did a digital story telling project for my World Literature class earlier this week. His introductory paragraph said...
"Teaching is an art that includes storytelling at its core. Stories are an essential part of our nature as humans. Stories are how we pass on our history, our culture, and our heritage. The brain does not remember isolated facts, but makes connections with other ideas, often in the context of stories."
To me that sounded absolutely beautiful. Teaching as an art. An ART he says! No one ever thinks of it that way but he is right. Everyone tries to formulate education with methods and plans and workshops and "this is what you do if..." but art can't be planned so stringently as that. It is free flowing and creative and sometimes you just have to fly by the seat of your pants. Yes art does have outlines of sorts so some planning is involved but flexibility is the key.
Digital storytelling is an excellent way for students to get their creative juices going we just need to make sure as educators we aren't invading their creative projests.
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