I Am In The Current ~ The stream is digital.

Someone sent me this link today. It has a simple presentation however the narration and monologue structure is very interesting.

Saskatoon Public School announced that they were anticipating vacancies for the following school year. The school division indicated that they were accepting letters of interest for these positions. I wrote a letter for the position of Online Learning Teacher. I have never made a video for a potential job. Truth be told, I have always stayed true to the cover letter as a communication tool between myself and an employer. I chose to make a movie presentation to introduce myself, to highlighting my strength and abilities, and to take a different yet logical angle to this letter of interest.

I made my video on my iMac. I used iMovie 7.1.4 The introduction was shot with my built-in camera using a black backdrop. The title image is from a pre-made template. The Google Earth clip was recorded with Jing Pro. The still images were shot from 2006-2008 from several different occasions. These images were salvaged from my scortched iMac after the house fire this summer. The Educational Technology Tools showcase were also recorded with Jing Pro. The music is by Depart. (I am a huge JoJo Mayer fan). In this movie I featured part of the song Prospection.

So enough said. Here is my iMovie.

For the longest time, I have wanted to update my About section on my blog with a multimedia presentation but have yet to do so. Maybe this first iMovie project will encourage me to do so.

While at Fall Council with the STF, my goal was to interview as many people as possible and to create a video montage. I had only one interview question: What does a classroom look like in 2017? The date was significant to me in that it is a mere 10 years away.

This video highlights many of my thoughts regarding this precarious point in human history. I worry that our current practice does not fully prepare students for their future roles as adults. I was dumbfounded by people’s level of discomfort regarding my question. The answer to me is obvious. We don’t know and we really have no way of predicting things regardless of how near they may be in the future.

It’s getting tiresome but I am constantly lost in the question: Are we really creating life-long learners?

This is the first time I have ever embedded a video on my blog. It took several tries and eventually had to ask Kyle for some help. I was really close, and could swear I tried this same process, but it finally worked tonight.
Thanks again Kyle!

A year ago, shortly after having met my previous administrator, we had a long discussion about John Abbott and some of the 21st Century Learning Initiative’s ideas. During this conversation, epigenetics came up. Since that conversation I have read bits and piece, here and there, about epigenetics. Sunday I was digging in Youtube and found this video. From memory, our conversation discussed many of the points in this video. Prior to the keynote by Dr. Andy Hargreaves, I had an opportunity to share some of the content with colleagues from my school division. Both conversations were very interesting, and so is this movie. Give a watch! Lets start a conversation.

In 2006 I watched a presentation called (*I think) The Lost women of Juarez Mexico. After watching Dove Onslaught last night, I had an urge to try and find it. The closest I could find was a similar movie. Here is On The Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juarez.

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WordPress’ spellchecker doesn’t even recognize the word Femicide…