June 4th, 2008
Kids and Video Games
My eight-year-old son loves computer games. Eli's first question upon entering my apartment is always, "Can we play video games?!" While we enjoy playing board games, there is always a special excitement when we get to sit down at the computer and check what's new online.
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May 12th, 2008
Fifth Grade Class Trip to Gettysburg
I was recently a chaperone on my son\'s overnight fifth-grade school trip to Gettysburg. It was a chance to go on a road trip, spend some quality time with William, and see his teachers in action, but I also had a more professional interest in the traveling with Mr. K’s class.
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March 3rd, 2008
Meet the Producer
My name is Roman Brygider and I\'m a Producer/Director for WLIW\'s National Productions Department. Over the years I\'ve helped to produce WLIW\'s Health Chronicles Series, the nostalgic history series: New York the Way it Was and episodes in our heritage series which include: The Asian Indian Americans along with other episodes on the Chinese, Mexican, German, Italian, and Jewish American communities.
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February 22nd, 2008
Me and YouTube
Back in 1988, I had an idea that I thought was revolutionary. What if there was a way of getting any movie (from the silent or sound era), TV show or film clip delivered to your home, school or office, via computers?
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February 15th, 2008
Amy Winehouse and Education
Amy Winehouse was brilliant on the Grammys, via satellite -- she’s an amazing performer. Tough and vulnerable, she manages to radiate genuine talent in a way that transcends her retro-jazzy sound, beehive hairdo and Egyptian eye makeup (though they add something, too).
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February 8th, 2008
Where It’s At
When I was in graduate school at Teachers College (a few years before the Web), Ernest Rothkopf introduced us to an interesting framework for thinking about the settings where education takes place, in the context of considering when educational technologies should be used -- he divided them up into informal settings like museums or public television stations (the “arcade”); formal educational settings like schools (“contract”); and training programs in the military and businesses (“closed”).
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