Full Sail student coping with the end of program requirements… thanks Mary
To give an A or not to give an A – Ongoing Zander Dialogue
January 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I’m back to teaching my Media Asset Creation class and Ben Zander’s The Art of Possibility is back on the menu. It never ceases to amaze me how his approach sparks debate with classroom teachers, particularly when it comes to “giving an A.” One of my students wrote: Do I give my students all A’s? [...]
Grading Rants for a Monday – Inspired by the Art of Possibility
November 2, 2009 By 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 [...]
Save the Prize – Cha-Ching Version
October 22, 2009 By 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 [...]
Change/Follows/Learning
October 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Emdt student Kevin Hayes created this video with the catch phrase: “If what you learn doesn’t change what you do, then why you learnin’ it?” Kevin is a very committed believer and has shared the connection he feels between his beliefs and his actions. There’s something amazingly simple and powerful in this. And in his [...]
Twitter in Education?
August 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
One of my students recently read an article in the New York Times about how Twitter was killing the art of real conversation because twitter-ers were breaking the first rule of conversation by not really listening and only waiting for their opportunity to jump in. Then my student questioned how social media and Twitter might [...]
Show Me What You Learned (blog, blog, blog) – An FSO Student Music Video
August 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
What the Heck is edm613 Media Asset Creation – A Student’s View
August 1, 2009 By 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 [...]
Copyright This!
April 8, 2009 By 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 [...]
