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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. They [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Door to Door Virtually

16, Oct 2009

Each one of us has to travel some distance to get to school each day. Some students walk or ride bikes and scooters. Some ride on a bus while others are dropped off by parents. I drive to school each morning in my family van with my two children who attend Kennedy. For all of [...]

Jacksonville: We Went, We Saw, We Almost Got Lost.

14, Oct 2009

We had a great field trip to historic Jacksonville on Friday with Mrs. Pickett’s 5th grade class. One of our major focuses this year is using primary source documents in project-based study. Jacksonville is a natural destination in our region when looking for primary sources. We started the morning at the Jacksonville Children’s Museum, formerly [...]


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