My Comments are in Purple. LD

This is an interesting task to ask of students considering many stories have a linear format. They usuaslly follow the beginning middle and end formula, but with the addition of a virtual world where time can change, stop, and restart again the students and create a story line that may never end, or that could return to the beginning (much like the film Pulp Fiction).

Thanks! This was the exact image i was talking about. Interesting some of the logos, MTv and all the high-end clothing and cars, makes you think who they are really marketing too...hook'um when their young!

I agree with MEM, this is really clever.

3rd world farmer: This game gives the user the ability to place himself or herself in the life of a farmer in a 3rd world country where having a shed or electricity is a luxury. Where $50 spent on a shed can mean your wife can't get medication. The game discusses the gamble farmers living in a 3rd world country have from year to year, when their livelihood and health depend on their crops or livestock. This came can be an asset in a classroom discussion focused around global conflicts and or an agriculture lesson. The game can be sued to experience farming through someone else's eyes. This game gave me the change to reflect on my education as a young student, and remember played the RPG The Oregon Trail. This game was similar in theory to the 3rd world farmer because the user became a character in the game, their was thought and critical analysis of a situation that went along with the play aspect of using computer games or game systems.

The Garbage game: The garbage game allows students to visually see what impact and decisions they can make even before the garbage truck is introduced as an option for trash removal. The game was interactive, and allowed the player to think, but I don't really think that it would be very effective. The images used are cartoonified, and doesn't really reflect the true amount of garbage dealt with on a daily basis. I think that is this was used as an introduction or supplement to a lesson on recycling or environmental sciences it could be useful, but don't believe it is engaging enough to keep students attention for a long period of time.

This is the Web 2.0 Blog created for My week of facilitation (DiDio).

Hello all! I went back to the blog posts, read them and made some comments about your images. They all came out really wonderful! My notes, and questions are annotated in green italics in the same post as your image. You can respond if you want, thanks for a really rich discussion. L

Sitting on Decorative Arts

Here is the remix for Mary Elizabeth's facilitation. I ended up uploading the wrong version earlier, and had to reload it. Enjoy, Lindsay

I really like the idea of this page. The CCMixter can be used in so many ways. Since we were dicussing gender with Jen's lesson, that s the first thing that popped into my mind. If i had a classrom, and was planning a VC lesson on gender, I would use this website in tandem with maybe a movie mixing site, or machinima site. Usng this website as part of the students resources would be great.

Machinima, Peb 2.0 Pedagogy