Monday, July 23, 2007

Digication

Please visit my Digication site. It's moving right along. I'm just working on individual assignments at this point...

http://campus.digication.com/mrskeldon/About/

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Long Live Digication!

I think my prayers have been answered in terms of setting up the Capstone course online.

Having met with the folks from digication, I think their product is precisely what I've been looking for...

Please take a look at what I've got so far...

http://campus.digication.com/mrskeldon/About/

Thursday, July 5, 2007

Got my mind around...

I think I've got the most appropriate way to use this blog.

As a charter school, we often try things in less traditional ways than standard public schools. Being arts-driven and smaller in scale than most schools (Beacon's population will grow to approximately 170 next year), we are often able to adapt technology into courses.

In fact, as we designed our Performance-Based Graduation Requirements system, we considered technology essential.

In the first two years, the final product of the Capstone Project is a film, shot on DV cameras and edited on a nonlinear system. All of the preliminary work has been handwritten (at worst) or typed via a word processor (at best). I have had some preliminary discussions with folks at DigiCation (www.digication.com) about students creating their work for this course on that site.

This is what I wish to explore through EDC 921. I think I am even comfortable uploading their films for sharing with the group. Stay tuned...

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Take 2

OK, so school is over for the year. And I spent the last week on my back. I threw it out by simply attempting to rise from my chair. I corrected final exams by email and fax and never got to see the faces of my students as they relished taking my final from the 4th dimension...

On with all things summer, including catching up with this course!

Sunday, June 3, 2007

OK.. So here it is... A blog...

Now to contemplate how to best use this for my students. My initial thoughts are that I would like them to be able to retrieve and post all class assignments to the blog and give each other feedback.

Eventually, it would be great if we could host their capstone projects, which are 8-12 minute autobiographical films.