Teaching for the Future 101
Former guest and friend of the show Dan Flannery is a grand prize winner in the John Lennon Song Contest, which means he is one of two songs that are vying for the prize in the Children’s Music Category. Dan has created all of the music for this podcast and I want our community to help support him back. Please go to www.jlsc.com/vote.
To sweeten the deal Dan is running a contest through his own site http://www.FlanneryBrothers.com,where you can win the custom album art for their next album by voting in the contest. Win a custom art prerelease of our CD if you vote 4 our song every day & email him when you do www.jlsc.com/vote
flannerybrothers@gmail.com.
Super Flannery Brothers - http://media.www.mainecampus.com/media/storage/paper322/news/2009/04/06/Style/Super.Flannery.Brothers-3698091.shtml
You can also follow Dan on twitter: http://twitter.com/FlanneryBros
Kinder Art.com Mel Chinâs Fundred Dollar Bills - http://www.kinderart.com/drawing/fundred.shtml Help bring awareness and support to students in NOLA by creating your one Fundred Dollar Bill with your students.
Repurposing our Tech Junk â Due to a personal computer melt down in my own home I have been thinking a lot about how to make old computers salvageable for educational purposes. I read Making due with Compujunk - http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/03/making_do_with_compujunk.html and I decided to experiment wit Ubuntu www.ubuntu.com on my old Dell machine to see how schools could use open source and old hardware to put computers in the hands of students.
Additional Resource -
Wired How-To Wiki - How-To Opitimize a Fresh Ubuntu Installation http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Optimize_A_Fresh_Ubuntu_Installation
Next Week: Iâm going to be interviewing comic artist, podcaster, and teaching artist Jerzy Drozd this week. We talk about visual literacy, comics in the classroom, and how teachers can use comic book making to turn their students from consumers into creators. Find out more about Jerzy from the links bellow.
http://mlatcomics.com/krc/
http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/
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