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Grading Rants for a Monday – Inspired by the Art of Possibility

November 2, 2009 By jbb Leave a Comment

One of the books that I use for my course is the inspirational The Art of Possibility and in one of the opening chapters the authors, Ben & Roz Zander, propose getting rid of grades. This usually invokes strong pros and cons reactions from my students. For example… “The author of the book, “The Art [...]

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Save the Prize – Cha-Ching Version

October 22, 2009 By jbb 2 Comments

Part of my class at Full Sail University involves issues of Copyright, Fair Use and Creative Commons. One of the videos I share is about the difficulty a particular video documentarian is having securing the rights so that he can share his documentary “Eyes on the Prize” The video prompted the following video response by [...]

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freedom to screw up required if one wants perfection: emdt students reflect on blogging

October 10, 2009 By jbb Leave a Comment

An open letter to my emdt co-workers, co-conspirators & creativity enablers, On one level or another I’ve been teaching communication and writing since I took my first teaching assignment 15-years ago. One thing that I learned right away was that it seemed to be a big function of the education system to take the eagerness [...]

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Show Me What You Learned (blog, blog, blog) – An FSO Student Music Video

August 18, 2009 By jbb Leave a Comment

Sorry, self-indulgent, no doubt, but damn funny… well, at least for my students who have to suffer through my course, Media Asset Creation. Thanks Abram Siegel

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What the Heck is edm613 Media Asset Creation – A Student’s View

August 1, 2009 By jbb 1 Comment

Last week I was all proud of the presentation I’d given to my fellow course directors explaining what my class was all about. I had intended to make a video version of that presentation and post it here to help spread the Full Sail/EMDTMS love. Then one of my students turned in the following piece [...]

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The Thin DEADLine – An FSO Student Movie Trailer

August 1, 2009 By jbb Leave a Comment

The creativity of our students knows no bounds. Thanks TLucas. Oh, and don’t go outside!

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Copyright This!

April 8, 2009 By jbb Leave a Comment

Since the very first month of teaching my graduate media course at Full Sail University my students have struggled with the vagueness and conflicting messages surrounding the topics of copyright and fair use. Tasking educators, many of whom are very new to online anything, to creating an unending number of audio podcasts, videos, blog entries [...]

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Composite of a Series of Images Taken From Space Aboard the Station

This is a composite of a series of images photographed from a mounted camera on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, from approximately 240 miles above Earth. Space station hardware in the foreground includes the Mini-Research Module (MRM1, center) and a Russian Progress vehicle docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment (right). Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit said of the photographic techniques used to achieve the images: "My star trail images are made by taking a time exposure of about 10 to 15 minutes. However, with modern digital cameras, 30 seconds is about the longest exposure possible, due to electronic detector noise effectively snowing out the image. To achieve the longer exposures I do what many amateur astronomers do. I take multiple 30-second exposures, then 'stack' them using imaging software, thus producing the longer exposure." A total of 47 images photographed by the astronaut-monitored stationary camera were combined to create this composite. Image Credit: NASA
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