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william berry

The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings movies: New Zealand was the wrong filming location. - 0 views

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    "And yet no one I'm aware of has pointed out one of the more glaring (literally) problems with Jackson's Tolkien films, a problem that has become more evident to me with each installment. It's the choice of his own native land, New Zealand, as the backdrop for these British stories. The island nation of swooping hills and glistening peaks isn't merely an unfortunate choice-it's one of the worst options I can imagine." You could do some really interesting textual analysis stuff like this with comparing book characters and settings with their on screen counterparts. What holds up to the original? What has changed? How does that affect the reader/viewer or change the message of the story? There's plenty of options that students would get into - The Hunger Game Series, The Hobbit, you could even do comic book characters and their on screen counterparts.
william berry

"Sometimes I've Got Nothing." | Concrete Classroom - 1 views

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    ""I think competitive character people don't want to be manipulated constantly to do what one individual wants them to do," Popovich said, "It's a great feeling when players get together and do things as a group. Whatever can be done to empower those people."" Applications for classroom and for our job as ITRTs. ...and I just love Popovich.
Tom Woodward

"Tip-of-the-Tongue Syndrome," Transactive Memory, and How the Internet Is Making Us Sma... - 1 views

  • But what Socrates failed to see was the extraordinary dot-connecting enabled by access to knowledge beyond what our own heads can hold — because, as Amanda Palmer poignantly put it, “we can only connect the dots that we collect,” and the outsourcing of memory has exponentially enlarged our dot-collections.
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    "He cites Socrates's parable of the Egyptian god Theuth and how he invented writing, offering it as a gift to the king of Egypt, Thamus, who met the present with defiant indignation: This discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality."
Tom Woodward

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Edit Your Novel With Math. - 2 views

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    For Will Berry
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    Hah. Awesome. Here are a few more specifically for middle school literature: 1. Divide the number of pages in your novel by the number of chapters it contains. The average should be equal to or less than your intended audience's age. 2. Determine the ratio of action verbs to any other verbs. If the ratio is less than 5:1, include more crazy twists and scenarios to keep the attention of your reader. And most importantly... 3. The number of characters in your novel that are either vampires, werewolves, or zombies should exceed that of all humanoid characters. If not, revamp your story to comply with current fad.
william berry

Severus Snape | Important Scenes in Chronological Order - YouTube - 0 views

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    Amazing how a remix can completely change your perception of a story. There's an English lesson here somewhere.
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