In 1969, Jerry Levitan — then a 14-year-old Beatles fan — found his way into John Lennon's hotel room and persuaded him to do an interview. Jerry's reel-to-reel recording has since been augmented with animation by director John Raskin and the resulting work was nominated for "Best Animated Short" in the 2008 Academy Awards.
Thanks to Colin Beavan for the link.
A cherry-picking of some of Michael Wesch's most thought-provoking and fascinating works. For more information, visit Michael's site.
An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube
Understanding how people use new media to express themselves and connect with the world.
Information R/evolution
This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information.
A Vision of Students Today
A short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today — how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.
The Machine is Us/ing Us
"Web 2.0" in just under 5 minutes.
Spent the morning at Devon Middle School redoing the locates for water, gas, and power from a year ago. Now our paperwork is up-to-date! Another "check" on the wetland to-do list :)
As it's been a while since I've visited the school, I decided to check out our tree nurseries... Whoops! Looks like we need to do some weeding! There's a lot more than just white spruce in there now :) It all looks good, though. Another year and the trees will be large enough to plant out.
Elsewhere, at the native wildflower garden, everything is filling in nicely and looking great:
It's been a pleasure to work with both David Smith and the City of Fredericton on this project. This garden of native Maritime species continues to draw a lot of attention and acts as an inspiration to many an existing and would-be gardener. The fact that it continually changes its appearance throughout the seasons makes for a visual feast in such a high traffic (foot and bicycle) area.
Other Canadian municipalities aren't quite so understanding, unfortunately; at least when it comes to homeowners and their properties... Franke James writes about her experiences with the City of Toronto throughout her project to landscape her front yard and driveway in this ultimately inspiring — and very educational — visual essay. A little taster is included below — be sure to check it out, leave a comment, and pass it along!
Well, the project I spoke of in my previous post has all but engulfed me, hence the lack of updates for the last few weeks.
It continues to be a busy summer. Planning for the installation of the constructed wetland at Devon Middle School is ongoing, and I'm working to put together a weekend environmental education camp for Grades 6–7 at Yoho Lake (see map below) to be offered the weekend of Oct 18–19 for up to 40 students.
If you're an educator reading this, and you're interested in having your students involved, please contact me.
My writing will likely take a back seat over the coming weeks as work on these projects continues. However, if you're still curious as to what I'm up to (and have a short attention span), FriendFeed is a good place to catch all my shorter ramblings from the disparate online communities I inhabit — see my FriendFeed page.
For now, I wish you an auspicious 08/08/08 and I'll leave you in the tranquility of Hays Falls, which I had the pleasure of visiting a few weeks ago.
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