Booktalks Blog Up

I have had students recording book talks as a form of book review for the last two semesters. I envision it as a place for other students to turn to when they are looking for a new book to read. I am still managing the last round of recordings, but there are over a hundred up now. I'll include one of the best below, but you can peruse them all by book title or author at the site. The best ones from each round get a gif and a special listing.

Game

by Barry Lyga

Media and Fear

Bad News - A Media Fiction (Diplom) from Nico Uthe on Vimeo.

Sugata Mitra does it Again

This guy has the right idea. If I could do this more, I would love it. Maybe the research projects could be more like this. Or, at least that is another way to approach this - self-organized learning.

Coding as Expression

Here is a good argument for teaching coding as a part of the English Language curriculum. Are we not attempting to teach students new ways to express themselves? Wouldn't it be great if we could teach them many of the skills they will need to be creative in the 21st century while also teaching them how to express themselves in a new way, a way that is project based and for which many of the skills are instantly recognizable as necessary to accomplish the task? I'll have to check out scratch in more detail and see if I can't figure a way to incorporate this into my multimedia research project in some way.