Mixin' for the Tone Deaf
I love the mixin' approach to stirring up content, Brian (where ya been besides Utah?) and I am all game for it.
Boom- Ha Phump- Splff- splfff- buff a hu ....
That's my problem, I stink at rap and mixin' so what's a newbie to do? I cannot carry a tune at gunpoint, much rather that regurgitate it like machine gun fire.
That's *our* problem because most educators, especially those who are Digital Immigrants, are scared to death of this stuff, of finding content, breaking into into morsels, and recombining it into something new. You have seen that audience look at deer in the headlights as you describe wikis to a group for the first time. The Fear Factor is huge, and it is more than a fear of learning new technologies, it is a fear of a different way of embracing unstructured information and chaos and being okay with it. It is a fear of loss of control. You cannot do much until you address fear.
But I find musical hope in the slick Apple program GarageBand which makes the mixing of musical bits both as simple and constructive as one could want. You click and drag from a library of sounds, layer tings or stretch them out, and play with media content. Where is the app that can do that with all kinds of content? It sure ain't a course management system.
And then take it to the next level of networked content such as MacJams where users of GarageBand post, share, and collaboratively do all kinds of mixin'
Boom- Ha Phump- Splff- splfff- buff a hu ....
Boom- Ha Phump- Splff- splfff- buff a hu ....
That's my problem, I stink at rap and mixin' so what's a newbie to do? I cannot carry a tune at gunpoint, much rather that regurgitate it like machine gun fire.
That's *our* problem because most educators, especially those who are Digital Immigrants, are scared to death of this stuff, of finding content, breaking into into morsels, and recombining it into something new. You have seen that audience look at deer in the headlights as you describe wikis to a group for the first time. The Fear Factor is huge, and it is more than a fear of learning new technologies, it is a fear of a different way of embracing unstructured information and chaos and being okay with it. It is a fear of loss of control. You cannot do much until you address fear.
But I find musical hope in the slick Apple program GarageBand which makes the mixing of musical bits both as simple and constructive as one could want. You click and drag from a library of sounds, layer tings or stretch them out, and play with media content. Where is the app that can do that with all kinds of content? It sure ain't a course management system.
And then take it to the next level of networked content such as MacJams where users of GarageBand post, share, and collaboratively do all kinds of mixin'
Boom- Ha Phump- Splff- splfff- buff a hu ....
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