Keeping Track of the Oil Spill

7 Jun
2010

Since April 22nd we’ve spent a little of each day learning and watching the latest news about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. We followed along with each failed attempt to stop the oil leak, as well as sent in a few of our own ideas to BP.
This link to [...]

I’ve Got Those Chains on Me

19 May
2010

I had a couple of requests from students today to post Isaac’s video about the book Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson. I’m really glad that so many of you enjoyed the video. It was a lot of work, but Isaac did a great job and I’m really happy with how the project turned out.
Here, [...]

Incredibox is Incredibly Cool!

29 Apr
2010

While poking around on the interwebs this evening I stumbled across a very fun interactive music composition tool. Incredibox is a loop creation tool that provides you with a sweet collection of individual components you can mix, match, cycle and recycle as you build a musical passage that grabs your happiness. The sounds are divided [...]

Video Content We’ve Been Watching

29 Mar
2010

Over the past couple of weeks, we have viewed several video programs and clips which connect with the content we’re studying. In this post, I’m embedding several of the videos we’ve seen. Please understand that I – as a teacher – and DreamExtreme – as a class – are not fully endorsing these videos. [...]

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 [...]

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