“Our collective appetite’s affect on landscape is a sobering phenomenon…”

Photographer Edward Burtynsky makes a wish: that his images — stunning landscapes that document humanity’s impact on the world — help persuade millions to join a global conversation on sustainability.

Do a bit of research about DIY and the punk ethics and see what you can produce to show you understand the concept of punk as it relates to your learning and education. Use any tools you have at your disposable both digital and old school, then present your work on the Ning, the wiki, youtube, or your own blog. Don’s ask for clarification, don’t ask for what is acceptable; don’t ask anything just do it. Create!

I set June 26th as a deadline in hopes of forcing people get on task. Guilty of procrastination like everyone else, it is now 11:36pm the night of the 25th, and I am finishing up my project. I have a feeling mine will be the only presentation, but I hope to be surprised.The deadline was arbitrary, so I hope that others will begin to post their work on one of our many platforms.

The term Edupunk has gone through the ringer, but this is all I found it to mean:

inventive teaching and inventive learning. As for DYI, it is a term used by various communities that focus on people creating or repairing things for themselves without the aid of paid professionals.

In short: communities creating and using inventive teaching and inventive learning for themselves without the aid of paid professionals. Education Everywhere.

I wanted to create several video stickers. With the proliferation of video and the ease of embedding video on social networking sites, I wanted to create short video Public Service Announcements (PSA) My hope being that people will “stick” these videos on as many cyber-walls as possible. I want people to share them with as many people as they know on Facebook, embed them on their blogs, stamp them on their Nings. I think of the PSAs as video graffiti.

I have only created one as of now, but I hope to churn these out more often. We will begin the lessons on the subject matter in the  video soon. In the meantime, take a look and raise some questions.

Now I leave you with two assignments, distribute this video to as many people as you can and create a project of your own.

I wanted to write a deep, profound, meaningful intro for the next video, but I think Severin Suzuki’s words say it all. I have also embedded this clip on the Ning, so feel free to comment in either place. I encourage you to share the video widely with as many people as you can, and have whoever you send it to come and join our conversation about it here at Intrepid Classroom. I am curious what you think. Sixteen years have gone by, and not only have things not gotten any better, they have gotten worse.

The entire speech can be found here. Some questions to entertain:

What is our next immediate action?
What are the reasons why nothing has changed?
What can we do about that?
Is she just an idealistic child? Is it that simple?

Please write, discuss, share ideas… I challenge you, please, make your actions reflect your words.

From the New York Times:

The term “globalization” is so tinged with rosy one-world optimism that it’s easy to assume the essential benignity of an economic philosophy whose name vaguely connotes unity, equality and freedom. But as Stephanie Black’s powerful documentary “Life and Debt” illustrates with an impressive (and depressing) acuity, globalization can have a devastating impact on third world countries. The movie offers the clearest analysis of globalization and its negative effects that I’ve ever seen on a movie or television screen. Read more here

Read more reviews at the official web site here or track info on IMDB. If you can rent this film, please do so. If not start building your video library here. If you do watch the film, please come back and tell us what you think! Take a look at the trailer:

I got an email from an Intrepid Classroom student the other day, saying that she had a Powerpoint she saw in class that she wanted to share. She had some trouble uploading it, so here are some instructions for next time.

1. You must have an account with Slideshare, but you can do this with an email and a password.
2. Then you simply click on the upload button.
3. Once your .pps file is uploaded you will be given an embedding code.
4. This is where it gets tricky. Edublogs is acting strange so make sure that you follow the next instructions carefully. In your rich text editor you will find two tabs one is called visual and the other is code:

Paste the code you got from Slideshare where ever you want it in your post and immediately hot publish. DO NOT code back to visual. This will cause problems. Edublogs is working on it!

That’s it. You can paste the code into the Ning or any other site as well. Here is the presentation, I hope to see it on Leila’s site soon.

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