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Doc Horse Tales: Making Good Stories
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On the interplay of word, image, and social justice. Wednesday, January 5, 2011. In twenty days,. I’ll be innovating a course at the University of Maryland. Called Good Stories: Teaching Narratives for Peace and Justice, perhaps the culmination of my forty-odd years as a professional educator. One strong drive comes from the vitality that I feel in the dynamic engagement of story, particularly as its nature flexes into emergent forms of digital media. The work of civilization and consciousness, to me, me...
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Doc Horse Tales: More Authentic Identity with Digital Media Production
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On the interplay of word, image, and social justice. Wednesday, February 13, 2013. More Authentic Identity with Digital Media Production. The first major assignment in our course (Good Stories: Teaching Narratives for Peace and Justice) involves making a digital media production on our individual identity. For a previous semester, I’d made a sample using iMovie on iPad: “. While I was initially ok with that production, upon repeated viewing I felt that it was too glitzy with flippant music. Challenges us...
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Doc Horse Tales: The Reality of Transformations
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On the interplay of word, image, and social justice. Monday, October 20, 2014. The Reality of Transformations. To muddle about in the question of “what is real? 8221; here are some considerations:. A How is Photo 1 real when the image is adjusted in iPhoto (as shown in the adjust window)? B How is Photo 2, taken a minute later from a few strides south, more or less real when the image is left unadjusted? C How, if at all, can both Photo 1 and Photo 2 be real? Moses’ burning bush? During and following the...
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Doc Horse Tales: On Destiny and Consciousness
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On the interplay of word, image, and social justice. Sunday, November 23, 2014. On Destiny and Consciousness. As we tell Good Stories, the word DESTINY spells out somewhat uniquely. For each person, but still I wonder how many of us hear it coming down as if from the on-high pulpit in the gloom-&-doom preacher-voice, dark in the final judgment on those coming up short. While it’s taken me most of my 68 years, lots of good stories, and enough serious study, too, destiny. Early on, we heard Baba Yaga.
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Doc Horse Tales: Balance & Play in Making Good Stories
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On the interplay of word, image, and social justice. Thursday, January 6, 2011. Balance and Play in Making Good Stories. Continuing in the reading of Boyd’s On the Origin of Stories. Part 2 concerns the evolution of art. I think this is an important frame for our engagement with digital media. This grounding in cognitive development arms those of us who want to enrich schooling with story, with digital media, with art, and with play. Play entered as a side note in the first function (did you notice?
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Doc Horse Tales: Destiny Directions
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On the interplay of word, image, and social justice. Wednesday, October 15, 2014. Each of us would like to know which way to go. What major is the right one? What are the exact directions for the next project? At this crossroad, which road leads home or to success or happiness? Keep in mind our ruler archetypes. Arthur had to go alone on hands and knees through the thorny bracken. The chief Kanu stayed in place, grieved, and blessed the unwanted by commissioning them into the quest. And the s...Often lis...
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Doc Horse Tales: Engagement with Home
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On the interplay of word, image, and social justice. Friday, October 31, 2014. In Good Stories this week, we moved ahead into the second half of our major textbook, Bryan Boyd’s Origin of Stories. Part 4 focuses on The Odyssey. With a particular look at the goal of the story and the obstacles along the way. Boyd’s analysis of Odysseus’ goal and tasks serves as a model for us individually to design our final digital media productions. Anson TX 1953ish and Oct 30 2014. My daughter’s voyage toward hom...
