What happens when your game is more than a game? How about Othello, World of Warcraft style? One of my students produced this video as his final project for my Shakespeare course this year. He chose to involve his family in the project (they help with the voice work) and to shoot the abridged performance via a network of computers in his home.
How cool is this?
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Nancy McKeand // May 30th 2006 at 3:11 pm
It is just too cool!
This makes all the discussion about the need to change education even more real. Our students can do so much but, rather than recognizing and valuing that, we choose to penalize them for not doing the things we did when we were students (and our parents and maybe even grandparents before us).
Congratulations on having a classroom that allowed a student to do this!
fred the fish // May 30th 2006 at 4:32 pm
Wow. Thanks for posting this and your journalism class projects. Gives me great ideas for beyond-powerpoint assignments that allow the kids to really show what they know.
Amerloc // May 30th 2006 at 4:54 pm
That, my friend, PWNs!
DCS // May 30th 2006 at 7:29 pm
Way cool! A tip of the hat to the student AND the teacher.
Chris Lehmann // May 30th 2006 at 9:38 pm
Waaaaaaaay cool.
Make sure David Warlick sees it… he loves stuff like this.
Practical Theory // May 30th 2006 at 9:50 pm
Remix Culture
I believe that this video over at Bud the Teacher’s site is a prime example of what David Warlick and others call “remix culture.”
Othello in the world of World of Warcraft. And Bud Hunt is one of those teachers who is flexible and smart enough to let
Bud Hunt // May 31st 2006 at 12:09 am
Thank you all for the kind words — I hope you’ll pass some of your thoughts onto the original posting of this piece — OldeSchoolNews.com I’ve added a link in the original post — I think the student did a tremendous job.
Jennifer // Jun 2nd 2006 at 7:36 am
How awesome was that??
It just is another affirmation that our students do not differ technology from any other part of their life. It merges in simplistically and everywhere!!
It is our job, in my humble opinion, to continue to not only encourage this integration but also to expect it.
Thank you for sharing!!! You have my braincells really pumping this morning with possibilities.
Please pass on my congratulations and thanks to the student as well. And way to go family to jump on board!!!!!
John Concilus // Jun 5th 2006 at 6:01 am
This is great stuff. I would give Bud the Teacher an “A” for allowing alternative products to demonstrate competency…this is “applied Differentiated Instruction” in my mind.
Each student has specific strengths and weaknesses in learning styles, and teachers have to realize that locking learners into old patterns of reports, and projects does not sufficienntly allow students from the “remix culture’ to tap into those strengths in the classroom.
Too often we view technology as a product or goal in and of itself, instead of what it really is in a Web 2.0 context: technology should just be a set of new tools to get the job of learning done.
I will be showing this clip at our fall in-service for our teachers
Hats off to Bud, and to the creativity of “Mr. Evil Eyes”.
Johncn
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