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Thanks to Shane Koyczan for his profound spoken word 

and the To This Day Project that we all need.

My awesome Media Production students at ITG Karlstad were experimenting with light sources last week. We sent off their pics to photographer Mats Bäcker for critique. Kudos to a professional making himself available to the next generation of artists. Check out the rest of my students pics here.

Good Books International by String Theory

Where Good Ideas Come From by RSA + Steven Johnsson

Apparently it gets harder.

I Love Charts

Pretty much why I teach.

blir du lönsam, lille vän? REDUX

this made me feel pretty good.
the original by Peter Tillberg

Meet Kieran Donaghy, a man in his element.

I just discovered this and o-boy....was I impressed. 
Thank you Mr.K. 

Lord of the Flies.

Our last day working with Golding's Lord of the Flies. Check out Creg Capullo's sweet take on it. I've always like that guy...yes I'm a dork...and as such i have to wonder why Piggy is sitting on the right hand side...see him...yes well if the island is on fire that means Piggy should be under a rock? am i wrong? 

nerd rage aimed at classic literature...what a waste. 

Is there a flash game based on the book? of course there is.

class dismissed.

 Sorry 90's kids...the teachers are taking over your favorite sites.

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yeah right...not without your soul you don't.

Losers from Everynone on Vimeo.

Reality Bites?

So
I have been working with my JB gang this week. It's interesting and challenging...and frustrating as HE..ck. gotta keep up the teacher persona don't you know. The little film you just watched is part of the Futurestates project. Heads up to my teeps (teacher peeps..heh..I'm so clever..yesterday I came up with the term Schoogle...I just don't quit...regardless of how much you wish that  I would) it is a very usable platform for teachign media elements or english as a second language for my my Swteeps.
...you heard me.
Swteeps.
class dismissed.

spring

 Trying to capture a bit of that vårkänsla with uppgift #14 for Mia & Co. up at KAU.

Last day @ JB

A sad day....but I'll be back.
Today i am trying to wrap up my VFU assignments while participating in Storskogsdagen. The media team is going to pick a spoof ad to post on the Wall of Fame AND we are going to eat kladkaka.
Sweet.
This afternoon the festivities begin with a Film Quiz and then we meet in the common room for the years awards and recognitions. right now the school (and Bob) is really busy.
class dismissed

The Good Consumer

An inspirational film from these guys that we watched to gear up for ad spoofing.

I strongly  recommend checking out their site and other consumer awareness videos.

Today was a good day.
The last group of students worked on interpreting and manipulating the connotations in advertising. Now we have a selection of ad spoofs created by my media students- front line soldiers in the media wars. This Friday we will select the spoof that best managed to capture the connotations underlying the original ad and manipulate it to mean something else.
 I will post the winner here as well as on JB's WALL OF FAME
                         ...sweet, sweet recognition.
Class dismissed