See what is being developed at Carleton University with interactivity, games and film at the IMD senior project page 2012
Category: Multimedia
Ideas connected with multimedia – videos, images, web sites, online collaboration.
We are all Cyborgs Now
“And the other thing that happens is that we’re all carrying around little Mary Poppins technology. We can put anything we want into it, and it doesn’t get heavier, and then we can take anything out.”
Westdale Film Festival
Imagine the auditorium a buzz with excitement as the Oscar winners rush on stage to receive their prize. The audience laughs and gasps during the screening of the winning films. This is how student work should be shared!
Former Westdale students, Stefan Pejic, David Gunn and Khalin Elliott, once the stars of the Media Art program, are now celebrating the new talent and presenting the Oscars. We also had Nathan Fleet, an established musician and successful filmmaker and curator of the Hamilton Film Festival return to present the best short films. All the films were judged by our returning student presenters, plus Lock 3 Media, a documentary film production company and Miles Davren, film editor.
Photos from the show, the crowd – Junior and Senior assemblies, Andre for tech, our student MCs, Dan, Taylor, Milos and John Connolly teacher MC.
The winners are posted on our Vimeo Channel
Next year I think that we will be combining the junior and senior assemblies in order to show all the films to all the students. It is good for the juniors to see what the seniors are producing.
A Compelling Argument for Self-directed Learning – in Groups
An amazing story of multiple experiments with learning through discovery. It builds a case for students working in groups to solve problems – in this case using Internet connected computers. Left on their own, children learn and discover together.
Learning through Hip Hop
A surgeon shows, through functional MRI imaging, that during improvisation the brain is working on many important levels, unlike when someone is using memorized material. Creativity is a neurological process that can be measured and this experiment measured brain activity while musicians were playing or rapping – comparing improvised jazz keyboard playing and hip hop rapping. The experimental question was: What happens in the brain during something that’s memorized and over-learned, and what happens in the brain during something that is spontaneously generated, or improvised, in a way that’s matched motorically and in terms of lower-level sensory motor features?
So if the brain is engaged on many levels during improv vs memorizing, then students should not be memorizing content. Why invest precious classroom time in a strategy that simply does not benefit the student? This speaks to the importance of learning through creativity, self-direction and discovery.
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