Video: Art at Lewis, Overview of Art, Music and Technology at Lewis Elementary

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Below is the second in a series of videos about Lewis Elementary School produced by Emily Chapman. The video below is a piece edited down from the original that focuses mainly on the arts at Lewis The second one is an overview of the art, music and technology programs at Lewis.. A third video will have a focus on the technology program at Lewis and will be posted soon...
Art at Lewis from timlauer on Vimeo.


Lewis Elementary School from timlauer on Vimeo.

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Playing with Friendfeed vs. Twitter

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What with the flaky nature of Twitter of late, I've been playing around with Friendfeed, the social networking tool that allows you to build a customised feed made up of content that friends on other collaborative sites have shared, including news articles, photos, Twitter posts, and weblog postings. Basically it is a web presence stream catching tool.

In addition to displaying the content, the FriendFeed interface on the web, and on clients such as Twhirl or MySocial 24x7, allow you to comment on an item. For example in Twitter if you want to comment you @reply to the individual. The item is posted chronologically, and this makes it difficult to follow conversations. For example this morning Steve Dembo and Ryan Bretag are having a Twitter discussion about the merits of interactive clicker type tools in the classroom. It started last night and continues on this morning, but it is hard to follow on Twitter. In FriendFeed comments are nested with the original Tweet/post. As others comment on the posting they are added along with yours. You also have the option of sending an @reply directly to Twitter. Kind of a foot in both worlds. (the Friendfeed web interface and MySocial 24x7 allow this, Twhirl has not yet implemented this feature.)

I also like that you can follow a friend's web contributions. For example FriendFeed allows you to aggregate posts to sites such as YouTube, Flickr and over 40 other web sites/tools. I am finding that I like following friends and collegues in this manner, rather than jumping around from various sites to see if they have posted anything new.

Update: Another feature of FriendFeed is something they call Rooms. Basically private spaces that a team or workgroup could set up to have a Twitter like discussion area, but only viewable to those that you allow in. Might be useful in a school or classroom setting...

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Video about Music, Art & Technology at Lewis Elementary

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This spring Emily Chapman talked with Lewis Elementary music/technology teacher Tony Jamesbarry about technology and art instruction at Lewis Elementary. The video provides an overview of our program and demonstrates some of the projects that students have been working on. Emily, a Media Studies graduate of the University of San Francisco, is an old family friend. She is working on two other videos about Lewis and I'll post those when they are finished.


Lewis Elementary School from timlauer on Vimeo.

Dan Meyer : the next-gen lecturer

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Dan Meyer has produced another great video, this time documenting his experience using a data projector and video to help his students understand algebra. In the process he discusses his teaching process and how it has changed because of these tools. I plan to share this with my staff when we come back in August.


dy/av : 002 : the next-gen lecturer from Dan Meyer on Vimeo.

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