Dance Off: Cha-Cha Slide

23 Feb
2010

We have been officially challenged by Mr. Franklin’s 5th grade class at Lone Pine Elementary. Never ones to back down from a worthy opponent, the DreamExtreme crew needs to get our groove properly aligned. We’ll get together with Mr. Franklin’s class via Skype sometime in the next few weeks.
Lone Pine has chosen the Cha-Cha Slide [...]

Visual Effects: 100 Years of Inspiration

16 Feb
2010

This week, we’re looking at how special effects in movies are created. Here is the video we watched in class this morning.

Remix/Mash-Up Culture

7 Feb
2010

This morning, I watched a fascinating video on YouTube. It came to me in the form of a tweet from fellow educator Joyce Valenza. The video draws inspiration from a Ted.com talk by Larry Lessig about the nature of creativity and copyright law and looks at the way our culture uses mash-ups and remixing to [...]

Finding Music in Green Places

18 Jan
2010

Diego Stocco – Music From A Tree from Diego Stocco on Vimeo.
I love happening across some unexpected and delightful corner of creativity. This weekend, as I shuffled through a couple dozen websites using the discover tool StumbleUpon, I came upon a video of a musician and composer named Diego Stocco. Now, I love music in [...]

Artistry Through Technology

16 Jan
2010

Lately, the DreamExtreme class has come across some very fun and interesting technology tools that could lend themselves to learning projects. Students have already used some in class work, and have only just begun to explore others. I’m including links and screenshots in this post to give you a launch pad to do some exploration [...]

Xtranormal Animation

11 Dec
2009

Students in the DreamExtreme classroom have been exploring a web-based tool called Xtranormal.com. Xtranormal allows a person to use text to create an animation sequence. The user is able to select a character, background, voice, and other video and audio elements. It also allows you to add actions, camera angles and other semi-cinematic elements.

Above, I’ve [...]

Video Connections and Literature Circles

4 Dec
2009

As we barrel toward the Christmas break, we’re feverishly trying to tie up loose ends and bring projects to a satisfying and successful close. We’re also throwing some new irons into the fire just to keep things interesting.
This week we had the wonderful opportunity to connect with artist Lonnie Powell from Missouri. Along with four [...]

A Bug’s Life: Up CLOSE!

29 Oct
2009

Bugs.
They’re kind of tricky. Some people love them. Love to look at them and catch them and play with them and learn about them.
Other people just like to squash them as soon as they amble across their paths.
Today, in the DreamExtreme classroom, we had the extraordinary opportunity to look at bugs up close. And by [...]

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