DAVID WEES

Thoughts from a 21st century educator.

Cultural and New Media Studies (ETEC 531)

Reflection: ETEC 531 - Cultural and New Media Studies (elective course)

Creating the media products for this course was a lot of fun as I recall.  I spent many hours designing and editing my video, trying to make it perfect.  The first media production was relatively easy to create and really done in too much of a hurry.  For the second media production my wife actually pushed me to make it a better product, and I was pleased that she had done that.  It is a bit long and at points boring, but the production piece required a lot of different skills, and the amount I learned about video editing really made the product worth creating.



Artifact: Virtual Reality (Group work)

Here is the digital module we created as a summary of what we learned about virtual reality.



Artifact: Media Production 1

This was my first media production, produced with Windows Movie Maker as I recall. I wasn't extremely happy with this piece either, but in all fairness, I was just starting to learn about video production.



Artifact: Media Production 2

Here was my second media production for this course.  This ended up being one attempt at the media production.



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Quotations

The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.

Lewis Carroll

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialised abilities for thinking about a variety of things

Lev Vygotsky

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

Jean Piaget

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

John Dewey

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

C.S. Lewis

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Albert Einstein

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

Howard Gardner

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Roger Lewin