Link: Education in the Digital Age

[Alan Kay]

Sounds great Dave!

(It's also nice to hear from you!)

Cheers,

Alan

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At 2:51 PM -0700 8/16/02, Dave Master wrote:
>Kim and all fellow "Squeaklanders",
>
>   The ACME Online site will officially open sometime in October. 
>I'll be able to give you URL for an informational website to check 
>out in a week or so, hopefully.
>
> 
>Onward and upward, Dave
>
>  Kim Rose wrote:
>
>Hi, Dave (and all Squeaklanders) -
>
>Great to hear from you!  When we did the video project at Cal Poly 
>it was under the 'influence' and direction of Doreen Nelson and Lev 
>Gonick. As a matter of fact, there was an article in yesterday's NY 
>Times about Lev's current work in the area of online learning at 
>Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland (you can read the 
>article in the Technology Section of NY Times online if you are 
>interested).
>
>The ACME pilot program sounds great...I wish you the best with it. 
>(I encourage those of you not familiar with Dave and his work to 
>learn more!)
>
>Thanks for the update....As Alan subscribes to this list, he'll see 
>your "hi" directly (he was just in Maine with Seymour Papert and 
>educators thinking about issues that will arise when every 7th 
>grader in the state of Maine (17,000) will receive a laptop this 
>Fall!!
>
>best regards,
>Kim
>
>
>>Kim and Marcus,
>>
>   Yes, I work with the folks at Cal Poly Pomona.  They are 
>actively engaged in a number of "streaming" and "distance learning" 
>initiatives.  They've also been very helpful with the development of 
>our ACME Virtual Animation Network the passed two years. We actually 
>host half of our ACME Animation Network transmissions from Cal Poly 
>Pomona (the others are from Disney, DreamWorks, Warner Bros., etc.). 
>They are presently helping us figure out ways we can "stream" some 
>of our instructiona nd animation sharing between the learners and 
>professionals.  Mike Berman is the V.P. of Instructional Technology. 
>He's a very visionary person. The "point-person" on the "streaming 
>project" is Mark Waters 
><mailto:mswaters at csupomona.edu>mswaters at csupomona.edu. He can put 
>you in touch with others on their staff that are working on various 
>initiatives.  I've really enjoyed working with Mike Berman and his 
>staff.  I've learned much from my association with them.
>
>   Also, Kim, I need to update you on the ACME program.  We've been 
>piloting an online version of the program with a sample group of 30 
>students and selected animation "pro mentors" from 13 countries. 
>The program implements the same guiding philosophy as the ACME 
>On-Air program.  It differs in some other ways, most markedly in 
>that it is it is asynchronous and is not "Hollywood-centric. We are 
>fine-tuning it presently and hope to open it up globally in the fall.
>
>   I'm sure many of the "Squeakland" folks that are into animation 
>specifically, will find the site engaging and helpful. We'll let you 
>knoiw more details when we're ready to open it up. We could let 
>folks on our site know about your community as well. I think the 
>sites will be very synergistic.
>
>    'Hope all is well...say "hi" to Alan.  Dave
>
>  Kim Rose wrote:
>
>Hi, Marcus!
>Hope you are doing well (and staying dry over in Germany.)
>Thanks for these pointers -- we did this series several years ago; I
>had no idea Cal Poly digitized the video and put it online....
>(If I can get Windows' Media Player to work on my Mac I'll take a fresh look!)
>cheers,
>Kim
>
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>There are some interesting videos online:
>>
>>"Education in the Digital Age"
>>Educators, visionaries, entrepreneurs, and zillionaires talk about digital
>>technology, the internet, and their potential for educational applications.
>>http://www.csupomona.edu/~itac/mediavision/streaming/tae/eda_index.html
>>
>>Alan Kay:
>>http://www.csupomona.edu/~itac/mediavision/streaming/tae/alan_kay.html
>>
>>Kim Rose:
>>http://www.csupomona.edu/~itac/mediavision/streaming/tae/kim_rose.html
>>
>>
>>  Marcus
>>
>>--
>>Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de
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