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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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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 [Read More]
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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!
Posted by: Nancy McKeand | May 30, 2006 at 03:11 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.
Posted by: fred the fish | May 30, 2006 at 04:32 PM
That, my friend, PWNs!
Posted by: Amerloc | May 30, 2006 at 04:54 PM
Way cool! A tip of the hat to the student AND the teacher.
Posted by: DCS | May 30, 2006 at 07:29 PM
Waaaaaaaay cool.
Make sure David Warlick sees it... he loves stuff like this.
Posted by: Chris Lehmann | May 30, 2006 at 09:38 PM
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.
Posted by: Bud Hunt | May 31, 2006 at 12:09 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!!!!!
Posted by: Jennifer | June 02, 2006 at 07:36 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
Posted by: John Concilus | June 05, 2006 at 06:01 AM