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Using Dropbox to host iWeb Websites
Following Steve Jobs’ WWDC Keynote and introduction of MobileMe replacement, iCloud, speculation has been all over the place about what would become of the web-hosting features in MobileMe depended on by most users of the iWeb app (like all emdt students for their AR/CBR websites!). One smart mobileme users sent the following email to Mr. […]
MoreRe: Film Copyright Laws
We get some wonderful questions from our amazingly talented students: I need some help. My CBR Project, Phase I, will be underway quickly; it involves my students composing music and putting it to a silent film. However, I know that most silent films are black and white and they are fairly old. However, I don’t […]
MoreArt of Possibility: Freedom to Succeed through Failure by Saray Taylor-Roman
by emdt student, by Saray Taylor-Roman I was touched in so many levels by the first four chapters of this book. And, I feel like sharing this personal anecdote. In 1996, my whole family moved to the U.S. from Mexico because my dad was getting his master’s degree. My sister and I did not know […]
MorePresidents Day: The First Five Presidents [video]
Educational Music Video created by Full Sail University student, Peter Binskin, for emdt/Music Theory & Applications (MTA) course. He’s gotten over a thousand hits and a “response” video. Our students do amazing work.
MoreEmpty School – Student Created Video
One of the benefits of working at Full Sail University is getting to sit-in on conversations with amazing folks like Apple’s Don Henderson (Senior Manager, Creative Expression). This past Thursday night (5/13/2010) he shared several videos about student creatives and entrepreneurs who weren’t waiting for graduation to begin their creative lives. While shortsighted bean-counters cancel […]
MoreDr. Guido Reviews the iPad
David Pogue, Walt Mosspuppet and Andy Inhatko may have gotten pre-release versions of the Apple iPad, but their reviews aren’t nearly as complete or intelligent as the following iPad review by Full Sail emdt master’s student, “Dr. Guido”: Sources: MAC Week 1 Blog Post-Free Response iPad Review by mikeficara. http://mikeficara.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/mac-week-1-blog-post-free-response-ipad-review/ retrieved on 4/15/2010.
MoreFullSail Grads Comes Back & Grills Us on Web2 & Education
Nick Briscoe, Full Sail emdtms grad, talks with Dr. Deason, Dr. Ludgate and moi about Web 2.0 tools such as social networking and their use in education. This is the of Nick’s first episode of Educatium, which he’s created with fellow emdtms grads Paul Martin, Aletha Williams and Emily Wray. They can only get better […]
More“A” is for Ax Murderer
Another student take on Zander’s giving student’s an automatic “A”: Grades in middle school are controversial, especially now that students earn credits to be promoted to the next grade level. Ask a teacher at my school to “give an ‘A’” and their response is likely to be one of confusion, disbelief, laughter, or even […]
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