In a journal: What is happening, where it is happening, how do you feel?

Marco Torres: Flickr

Letter safari
Street signs
Figurative alphabet (pictures of things that look like letters)
Landscape Hockney style

Leading kids to be metacognitive
Product and process

Photostory: Teach stories w/ 3 shots

record audio as you are recording experiences
What is your favorite part of the day? Photo journal
What do you do?
Nikon D90 w/ video


Be aware of your light:

Narrative- light-shapes-colors-lines-textures

Challenges:
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Noon- bad lighting toughest time to shoot.
diffuse light with a sheet or translucent disk

iso settings: The more variables you can control, the better photographer you can become.

Shutter speed: Communicating Time
Shutter: The Science and Math
Slow=Blur, Fast= Freeze
1/60 or slower, you need tripod
take a photo of the north star long exposure

Aperture: Communicating Focus

depth of field : area in focus

f-stops

What is the focus?

people/ objects: small 2.8
landscapes: big 22

Need camera with aperture, shutter speed, iso

Use the grid to analyse rule of 3rds

Manual- set functions

Tethering hook camera to computer, see what you are shooting.  Play with different iso, aperture, shutter etc.

aperature 5.6   iso125 family portrait

trial and error, great teaching

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Keynote:

The Community Inspiration Studio : Students are allowed to work day and night in the sudio.

What does learning look like outside of our schools.
distance =bandwidth
fear= alone
teachers still think that they have to know everything
moviemaking=great teaching
you are not alone, find others who do know

Listen to the audio, make a list of key words, find photos, video
ambient noises
students assigned 2 hr shifts for tech support until 10pm.  Teachers could connect for tech help.
It's not what it is, it is what we do with it.
What is an educated person?  Is it a noun, or a verb.

Don't ask questions you can look up.
The Thing versus the Purpose of the Thing  :Nouns Vs. Verbs
Focus on the verbs
Integration:
If we see the student as the recipient it won't change.  If we see the student as producer, it will change.
What type of producer are you? (not just what type of learner are you)
Studio environment where you can choose which instrument you want.
We have the stage to showcase our learning.
Community to share.

Passive vs. active The thing versus the

logical to creative
indiv to community
functional to meaningful
facts to the story

Intranet: Pulldown or pushup

funtwo youtube: guitar
philipino prison dancers

schooling vs. learning

kids want school to be challenging

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Making Learning Relevant and Applicable

Idea books:
Livescribe:

Students have to be aware of the product and the process. What is it that you want to showcase and communicate and then how are you going to showcase and communicate.

Think thematically for Film festival
Documentaries are very effective
Using inspiration: green product, yellow process, idea, theme
Wide medium closeup


Public Service Announcements: usually boring /static mocumentary more b roll/ less a roll
Pacific Bell DSL
dogtown and d boys (or z?)
herding cats
smoking kills
Mr. Wind
Ikea Lamp
epuron investing in wind energy


Spinal Tap

It's the story not the technology

Good film production is actually good business planning.
Good storytelling creates more questions than answers