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Bad Teacher (Review)
Bad Teacher is an interesting film because notwithstanding the numerous violations of the protagonist, and how in a real classroom she would be fired and probably prosecuted for any number of things that she did over the course of the movie, Cameron Dias’s performance speaks to a different facet of education under late capitalism– of once bright teachers burning out and becoming fetid.
Obviously,…
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An Important Update to Enchanted Assemblages
An Important Update to Enchanted Assemblages
Hi, ya’ll,
Okay, so I don’t want to keep you for very long but this is what is going to happen regarding the continued publication of my pet project, Enchanted Assemblages:
It, Enchanted Assemblages, is moving to an entirely Creative Writing based format with each volume self-published on Amazon.
Why?
I won’t mince words– it is because it doesn’t look like WordPress is going to be a proper…
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One Teacher in 10: LGBT Educators Tell Their Stories (2nd Edition)(Review)
A little while ago I read the third edition of One Teacher in 10; during that review, I lamented how the stories felt somehow “less.” The stories seemed more constructed and less authentic. Like the teachers were intentionally dramatizing their lives to make them more “screen-worthy.” Internally, I remarked to myself, “I bet the second edition, published during the first half of the Bush years,…
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The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter (2015; Review)
The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter (2015; Review)
Game-based learning is “Gamification’s” cousin from around the bend. Sure, they are mighty similar and come from the same family, but each are drastically different; where one, Gamification, takes the non-gaming and turns it into a game, the other, Game-based learning, centers around pre-made games meant to explicitly function as games. Sometimes, the two don’t get along but mostly, they co-exist…
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Explore Like a Pirate: Gamification and Game-Inspired Course Design to Engage, Enrich, and Elevate Your Learners (Review)
Explore Like a Pirate: Gamification and Game-Inspired Course Design to Engage, Enrich, and Elevate Your Learners (Review)
I continue my streak of non-medieval posts but this time with a return to “Gamification” literature. Here around, I speak about Michael Matera’s book Explore Like a Pirate.
Like my last book on Gamification, The Multiplayer Classroom, I discovered this book thanks to a blog post from game developer Triseum. I can’t be bothered to find the post now, but it suggested several titles worth checking…
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One Teacher in Ten in the New Millennium: LGBT Educators Speak Out About What's Gotten Better and What Hasn't (Review)
One Teacher in Ten in the New Millennium: LGBT Educators Speak Out About What’s Gotten Better and What Hasn’t (Review)
I really didn’t want to but I relented and did– I bought an overpriced digital copy of editor Kevin Jennings’s third installment in the “One Teacher in 10” series. I knew that I should have bought it but I couldn’t resist. I wanted to read it ASAP and without waiting another whole academic year. So I shelled out the cash. Goodbye (almost) twenty-bucks.
So, what were my thoughts? Mostly positive.
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Teacher of the Year (2015; Dir. Jason Strouse)
Teacher of the Year (2015; Dir. Jason Strouse)
I first watched this movie a few months ago and it has only grown on me since.
Finding it on Amazon during one of my diversions from medieval B-flicks, I thought I would give it a go. The description made it sound like a typical, rude postmodern comedy and so I thought it would be a fun way to kill an hour and a half, maybe write a short review.
Since that first watching was months ago and I am…
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The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game (Review)
The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game (Review)
As a pre-service teacher– someone who is training or soon-to-be training as a teacher– I was immensely interested in non-traditional pedagogical methodology.
I think this is obvious as it is a societal cliche– what is more well-worn or good for a laugh than the idealistic teacher who tries to reinvent the wheel and love their students through a good old-fashioned educational swamp? In this…
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I was on YouTube recently and I watched a speedrun for Awesome Games Done Quickly (AGDQ). For those who do not know, speed running is when players, using a variety of tips and tricks, “run” through a game as quickly as they can; sometimes special conditions are applied to the run, other times not. Regardless, tonight, I watched a gamer run an old NES video game called Wizards and Warriors.
As I watched the runner speed his way through the simple, vertical-based environments, I was reminded of my own childhood playing similarly simple, albeit very challenging, video games. Seeing the platforming of this title and the gem collecting, I wondered abstractly if this was the sort of game I would have liked as a child.
Thinking about it, it had all of the bells and whistles– knights, enemies to slay, a quest to fulfill. The gameplay looks simple enough, though I have no doubt it had its areas of difficulty; honestly, it looks like a knightly-fantasy version of a Mario game (complete with smashing items with your head for points). As a game, it is very quaint and its medieval aesthetic a nice throwback to a time when all a game needed was straightforward sword and sorcery for the win.
Regardless of how child-me would have played it, the game’s simplistic, and it should be said chauvinistic attitude of “brave knight saving kidnapped women while fighting monsters,” is nonetheless a homely throwback to reactionary understandings of medievalism of (the late 80s) old.
I will never play this game. But I commented on it anyway because it reminded me that you do not need an epic presentation to fire the imagination of young lads earning for adventure; if kid me would have liked role-playing as a brave knight fighting monsters, then that should be enough to remind people that medieval narratives of honor do not have to have flashy graphics to ensnare the vulnerable mind.
Okay, a little over-the-top, but the idea holds. Whether it is the throwback game that apes the graphics processors or old or an actual old game like this one, the story of “knight saving helpless princess,” is one that can be told without epic Hollywood-sized budgets.
Wizards & Warriors (Game Impressions) I was on YouTube recently and I watched a speedrun for Awesome Games Done Quickly (AGDQ). For those who do not know, speed running is when players, using a variety of tips and tricks, "run" through a game as quickly as they can; sometimes special conditions are applied to the run, other times not.
Some King Arthur Conspiracy Nonesense
Some King Arthur Conspiracy Nonesense
I was browsing Amazon not too long ago and clicked on a program simply titled King Arthur: The Legend of the Holy Grail. The cover image for the show said that it featured some author, so I figured it must have been a historical documentary of some kind. I clicked on it and– whoa– boredom instantly.
So, what I clicked on wasn’t a historical documentary. As is often the case with these Amazon…
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Responding to "Inside Out" (Ch.12)
Responding to “Inside Out” (Ch.12)
Grading seems to me to be like a paradox, a forbidden fruit, or a contradiction—it is something that you need to do in some form but would prefer to do without altogether. Students perform poorly without the threat of academic achievement over their heads but grading itself deforms education. There has to be a better way to go about teaching.
Whether or not there is, however, I have found a…
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The Untold Power of Water Hoses: or, Reviewing "Merlin: The Return" (2000; Dir. Paul Matthews)
The Untold Power of Water Hoses: or, Reviewing “Merlin: The Return” (2000; Dir. Paul Matthews)
I’ll be honest, for a good third of this movie, I had no idea what was happening. Even going to Wikipedia didn’t help much (which surprised me since Wikipedia usually’s a safe bet with these older movies). And even though the arcane plot finally clicked with me about 30-something minutes into the film, this is not to say that the story is very original. Not even convoluted, per se, just poorly…
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Responding to "Inside Out" (Ch.11)
Responding to “Inside Out” (Ch.11)
Grading seems to me to be like a paradox, a forbidden fruit, or a contradiction—it is something that you need to do in some form but would prefer to do without altogether. Students perform poorly without the threat of academic achievement over their heads but grading itself deforms education. There has to be a better way to go about teaching.
Whether or not there is, however, I have found a…
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The Stronghold (2017;Yuri Kovalev)
The Stronghold (2017;Yuri Kovalev)
As a palate cleanser from the low-budget drivial I force myself to consume, I decided to watch The Stronghold, a 2017 film by director Yuri Kovalev. Did it perform its necessary role and remove the sludge from my mouth? Yes, for the most part; aside from the Racism (?), more on that later.
First things first, though, The Strongholdis a Ukrainian film with English subtitles. Because of this, parts…
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Responding to "Inside Out" (Ch.8)
Responding to “Inside Out” (Ch.8)
I must sound like a broken record player at this point, but I never knew there were so many ways to respond to student writing.
Per the norm, it wasn’t until I got to at least second-level college classes that I started to notice the concept of personalization. Some personalization existed in Adult Education, sure, but it was mostly “this is what is right and wrong in the context of your paper.”…
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Merlin and the War of the Dragons (2008; Mark Atkins)
Merlin and the War of the Dragons (2008; Mark Atkins)
Remember how good Storm was? Forget it. Let’s get back to the bad medieval movies that this blog is known for reviewing. (Or should be known, at any rate.)
Enter– no, not just “enter,” full-on power slam– into Merlin and the War of the Dragons, a movie from a decade ago directed by Mark Atkins. Heck, just the title alone should give you an idea of how cheesy this movie is going to be (and is!).…
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Responding to "Inside Out" (Ch.7)
Responding to “Inside Out” (Ch.7)
Another chapter which opened my eyes, Inside Out’s take on “Crafting Essays” was one which made me realize how deficient my possible pedagogy could have been had I not read this chapter.
I dropped out of school when I was sixteen and entered night school. There, I learned essay writing and revision but that was it. Lessons were typically centered around a topic of the instructor’s choosing and I,…
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