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Category archives: Blog Inspiration
Google Search Stories
Google created an advertisement utilizing a sequence of internet searches in order to tell a story. The original ad is embedded here: Since that original advertisement, Google has made the tool available to create a similar type of story at this web address. http://www.youtube.com/searchstories Once you’ve previewed a few examples, make one of your own and …
Crisis in Egypt
Anyone watching the news this week couldn’t help noticing the crisis unfolding in Egypt and other parts of the Middle East. The first section of this CNN Student News video tells the story. What is a constitution? What types of Rights and Freedoms are you afforded here in Canada? If you disagreed with the government …
Hard Choices
Writers around the community right now are writing about hard choices that kids their age need to make. It’s a powerful question that needs to be asked of the community. If you’ve written a post around this topic, can you tag it with the word “choices” so we can find your work and comment on …
Oscar-Worthy?
The video below was posted on YouTube in late December 2010. Since then, famous film critic Roger Ebert has blogged about it, proclaiming it’s Oscar-worthiness. In that blog post, Ebert references Dziga Vertov’s 1929 silent classic “Man With a Movie Camera” which I have also included below. Suggested Prompt Questions What does this film make …
Another OK GO video
OK GO has become known for their highly creative (and incredibly intricate) music video productions. This stop motion animation was created on pieces of toast. It’s certainly worth a look. Having created a few stop motion features with other classes, I can certainly appreciate how this video was created, but cannot fathom drawing on the …